Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Sim-r (Simon Rodgers) (update)

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    When I first wrote about Simon Rodgers about a year ago, I pointed out that I knew almost noting about him, except that he is a concept artist working in the film industry, who likes to work and sketch digitally. His eerie and dramatic landscapes, imaginative environments, mysterious caverns and enigmatic structures are rendered with…

  • Craig Elliott

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    (Image above © Disney) Craig Elliott is an illustrator, visual development artist and layout artist who works in the film industry. He has worked on numerous films for Disney Feature Animation, Dreamworks and other studios. His credits include titles like Bee Movie, Shark Tale, Flushed Away, Mulan, The Emporor’s New Groove and Treasure Planet. He…

  • Fred Gambino

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    For years Fred Gmbino’s refined, confidently rendered and highly accomplished paintings have been gracing the covers of science fiction and fantasy books, as well as serving the needs of clients like National Geographic, Scientific American, Der Speigel, Lego, Mattel and The US Postal Service. Over that time his approach has changed, from oil to acrylic…

  • Spectrum 14

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    There are a number of illustration annuals, showcasing the editors’ choices for notable contemporary illustration. I look forward to several of them, The Society of Illustrator’s Annual, for example, but for many years (14 to be exact) my favorite illustration annual has been Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, edited by Cathy Fenner and…

  • Kevin Mack

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    Kevin Mack’s digital compositions are like a roller coaster for your eyes. You glide into them on big swooping forms that recede into the depths, looping and swirling among themselves like the veinous system of an android, or vibrating into a crenulated landscape of primary colors. As you go further into the images (and “into”…

  • Christopher Evans

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    In his latest series of paintings, currently on view at the Fischbach Gallery in New York, contemporary realist Christopher Evans creates broad sweeping vistas of serene landscapes. Rolling hills bask in the California sun under skies dappled with cumulous clouds; dawn cuts across the tops of mountains, opening the curtain on cloud filled valleys; and…