Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Drawing Dinosaurs with David Krentz

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    I was one of those lucky kids who didn’t “outgrow” my fondness for dinosaurs, or drawing them, as I grew older. They are amazing animals in many ways, and their variation in size, wildly bizarre appearance and astonishingly exaggerated forms make them as much of a delight to draw now as they did when I…

  • Jeff Hua

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    Jeff Hua is a concept artist for Electronic Arts in Los Angeles, and has worked games like GoldenEye: Rogue Agent and is currently working on an unannounced PlayStation 3 title. I don’t know of a repository for his finished concept illustrations, but his blog features his sketches, “doodles”, speed paintings, life drawings and some older…

  • Greg Broadmore

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    For somebody who isn’t specifically a paleo artist, New Zealand artist Greg Broadmore paints very cool and realistic dinosaurs. He has apparently loved drawing dinos from an early age (as happens to many of us), and now gets to paint them in the service of movie concept art, specifically for the lavishly dinosaur-populated remake of…

  • John Uibel

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    The term “concept art” is most often associated with movies and games, where the look and feel of characters and environments have to be established before they can be realized in costuming, sets and special effects. In fact, it’s even more important in the planning stages, when the effectiveness of a look is being judged…

  • Brian Despain

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    I just love robots. Big, little, advanced, retro, shiny, dinged, menacing, friendly or simply wacky, ‘bots leave lots of room for artists to play with forms, textures and wild ideas. Brian Despain paints great bots. His are of the dingy and dinged variety, and he excels at giving his metallic surfaces that battered and oxidized…

  • Aly Fell

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    Somewhere in the base of my brain lives the 12-year-old me, still a sucker for classic pin-up art, lurid pulp and detective story covers and clichéd 50’s sci-fi ray gun and spaceship illustrations, particularly involving beautiful women. So I can’t help but love images like this mock comic cover, in all its misty-planet, skin-tight spacesuit…