Category: Concept & Visual Dev.
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Lorenzo Lanfranconi
Lorenzo Lanfranconi is a freelance illustrator, concept artist and colorist based in Como, Italy. In many of the examples on his Artstation portfolio, he take on naturalistic subjects, but renders them with an appealing blend of texture and areas of flat color. There are usually small details that add interest and scale when you view…
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Pablo Carpio
Pablo Carpio is a freelance concept artist and illustrator based in Madrid, Spain. He has worked for Ubisoft Montreal and MPC and his work has been featured in publications like ImagineFX and 2DArtist. A number of the pieces on his online portfolio are Star Wars themed and were apparently done as part of an ILM…
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Lines and Colors is on strike today, January 20, 2017
There will be no new posts today on Lines and Colors about art or artists, no lovely images of art to inspire or amuse you. This is perhaps a portent of things to come, but today it’s just a protest. Lines and Colors is on strike today in support of the J20 Art Strike, calling…
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Framed Perspective, Marcos Mateu-Mestre
Just to put things in… context, the history of graphical perspective goes back further, but the system of geometric perspective we use today can be traced to an important point in the beginning of the 15th century, when Filippo Brunelleschi — the brilliant Renaissance architect and designer who solved the seemingly intractable problem of spanning…
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Piotr Jabłoński
Piotr Jabłoński, who also goes by the handle “nicponim”, is a Polish concept artist from Bialystok. His clients include Applibot, Inc., Cloud Share Inc., Evermotionvfx, Platige Image and VFX workshops. Jabłoński works digitally in Photoshop, but achieves nicely painterly look of natural media in his application of color. His subjects are often dark and moody,…
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X-Story, Vitaliy Shushko
X-Story is an animated short (roughly 12 minutes) by Vitaliy Shushko. At first, I thought this was a promo or incorporated animation for a game from a major company. Given the production values, length and level of accomplishment, I was surprised to find that this was an independent animation project. I checked Shushko’s blog and…