Category: Digital Art
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Matthieu Forichon
French illustrator Matthieu Forichon works in vector illustration, an approach that lends itself well to his crisp, elegant portrayals of fashion, travel, food and drink for clients like Louis Vuitton, Nespresso, Lillet, Camus cognacs & Neuhaus chocolates. I find particular appeal in his use of dramatic lighting in interiors and Parisian night scenes. Forichon’s website…
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Ben Haggett
Ben Haggett is a painter from Montana, who also happens to make some of the best and most cleverly designed pochade boxes out there, under the name of Alla Prima Pochade (as I described in my extensive article on pochade boxes). Somewhat ironically, Haggett has in recent years become fascinated with digital painting, working in…
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Android Jones (update)
Andrew “Android” Jones has worked as a concept artist with companies like ILM and Nintendo, as well as Massive Black, which he co-founded. He was also co-founder of the popular ConceptArt.org community portal. Jones is also a creator of visionary art, using a variety of digital tools involving digital painting, vectors and CGI modeling. He…
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Secrets of Corel Painter Experts
Among artists who work in the medium of digital painting, most notably visual development artists, comic book artists and illustrators, the two most popular applications for painting and drawing directly on the computer with a ressure-sensitive stylus and tablet are Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. Photoshop, because of it’s much broader range of use in…
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Selected (Mike Guppy)
another sight is a website on which artist and designer Mike Guppy displays a series of short art pieces, most using animated gifs, JavaScript, CSS and other web based techniques. Of them, the one I find most interesting is Selected ~ 2011, a series of animated GIF images in which familiar artworks by Botticelli, Leonardo,…
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Benoît Mandelbrot, 1924 – 2010
As I described in my post about him from 2008, Benoît Mandelbrot was not an artist, but a mathematician. His work, however, has enabled others, from dedicated computer artists to dabblers, to create the multitude of stunning images we know as ‘fractals”. In the process, he deepened our understanding of nature and the concept of…