Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • 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…

  • Reza Dolatabadi

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    Reza Dolatabadi studied at Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Dundee, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, from which he is graduating with a Bachelor in Animation and Media Art. As a student project, Dolatabadi spent two years creating over 6000 individual paintings as frames for a five minute hand-painted animation…

  • Doug Chiang (update)

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    Doug Chiang is best known in concept art circles as the design director for Star Wars I and II, for which he also did some terrific concept art. Some of it is featured in the books The Art of Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace and The Art of Star Wars, Episode II…

  • Parka Blogs Art Book Reviews

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    In these days of increased reliance on web-based shopping, online book merchants like Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Powells offer much wider selections than physical stores, even large ones, can provide. (Though nothing still beats the personal selections made by owners of small, independent booksellers, if you’re lucky enough to have access to one.) The…

  • Coraline Mystery Box

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    Back in 2003, I stumbled across a promotion for the book The Da Vinci Code, little known at the time, in the form of a series of web-based clues, originating on author Dan Brown’s web site and leading through a series of automated emails and other web sites to an eventual puzzle solution that garnered…