Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Julia Sarda

    Julia Sarda is an illustrator, concept artist and character designer based in Barcelona. She has a wonderful, lively style, a superb sense of color and a great feeling for visual drama. She also demonstrates a masterful command of dark and light in her compositions, and plays with theatrical spotlight effects and uplighting to great effect.…

  • Dominick Domingo (update)

    Dominick Domingo is a concept artist, illustrator and live action film director whose visual development credits include Lion King, Pocahontas, Hunchback of Notre Dame and Tarzan. Since I wrote a profile of him in 2010, Domingo has recently turned his attention to writing, and his YA fantasy novel The Nameless Prince will be released in…

  • Pascal Campion

    Pascal Campion’s illustrations are, quite simply, a treat. Campion rarely uses line, working directly in areas of color, sometimes augmented with textures, but his images are so fundamentally graphic that his springy, energetic compositions carry much of the visual charm of drawings. At the same time they have the atmospheric qualities of painting. Like Tadahiro…

  • Shelly Wan

    Shelly Wan is an illustrator, concept artist and gallery artist who works both in digital and traditional media. She is currently an artist for Pixar and also does work for Magic: The Gathering as well as comic covers and book covers. Originally from Guang Zhou, China, where she studied at the Guang Zhou Academy of…

  • Daniel Xiao

    Daniel Xiao is a concept and matte painting artist who has worked for Pixar Animation Studios, Dreamworks Universal and Fantasy Flight Games, among others. Xiao paints digitally in Photoshop, as well as working with 3-D applications like Maya and Sketchup Pro. His fantastical landscapes have a wonderful sense of scale and atmospheric perspective, the qualities…

  • Eyvind Earle website

    Since I last wrote about remarkable artwork of ex illustrator and former Disney background artist turned gallery artist Eyvind Earle back in 2009, the long promised EvyindEarle.com website has been published. Though navigation is somewhat clunky, this is now a good resource on Earle, with a large selection of his work. Many of the serigraphs…