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Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • James Clyne (update)

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    I first wrote about conceptual illustrator James Clyne back in 2005, and then again in 2006 when he formed a collaborative studio with concept designer Feng Zhu as Gamma Ray Studios, which is no longer in operation. Since then, Clyne has extended his resume and added to his online project gallery with concept art for…

  • Marc Taro Holmes

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    I came across the work of Mark Taro Holmes when I was struck by these two watercolor sketches on the Urban Sketchers blog. They were from his participation in the recent Sketchcrawl in San Francisco (see my posts on a previous Sketchcrawl, and here). I then looked him up and found his sketch blog, SKETCHtaro,…

  • Mark Covell

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    Mark Covell is a concept artist, storyboard artist and character designer as well as an illustrator. His illustration clients include Playboy Magazine, Universal Studios, Mercer mayer, Harper Festival, Simon and Schuster, and Lillyfield Press. His web site has sections devoted to illustration and storyboards as well as concept art, characters and environments. Covell has done…

  • 17 Digital Character Painting Tutorials

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    In what is probably a nod to their dominant demographic, Smashing Apps, a blog/webzine devoted to online resources for designers and web developers, named the article collecting these Photoshop tutorials “17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls“. That being said, it’s still a collection of useful Photoshop digital painting techniques of potential interest to…

  • Chris J. Anderson

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    Chris J. Anderson is a concept artist and illustrator working in both the film and video game industries. He was working with NCsoft, but beyond that I have no information as neither his web site or his blog have any biographical or client history information. (There a link on the web site for a future…

  • Mike Hernandez

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    I’ll start with a slight disclaimer, in that Gallery Nucleus, which is currently having a solo exhibition of Mike Hernandez’ work, is also currently an advertiser on Lines and Colors. That being said, when I check in on Gallery Nucleus, it often turns out that they have something on exhibit that is interesting to the…