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Category: Digital Art

  • the asia drawing portal

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    This is a tremendously rich source of articles and links to artists either working in Asia or of Asian descent living elsewhere. Though the emphasis is a bit more focused on contemporary artists, the site is a bit like lines and colors in terms of the different genres covered: illustration, gallery art, comics, concept art…

  • Jeff Miracola

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    Illustrator Jeff Miracola has subtitled his web site “Here there be monsters!”, and his Paintings gallery is chock full of them — grinning, leering and gnashing their lovely monster teeth amid assorted bad guys and other nasties. Miracola has done a good bit for work with Wizards of the Coast for their collectable card game…

  • MKZDK

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    Beautiful fractal-based tessellations by Stephen Miller. The “visions” section contains the images, with links to downloadable desktop-size files. “Cosmos” is quotes on cosmology from various sources. “Lounge” and “Site” are mixed bags. This site has been on the Net as long as I can remember (and that’s going back to when the Internet was considered…

  • Raphaël Lacoste

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    If you, like many people, envision the process of 3-D CGI (Computer Graphics Imaging) as arranging a few wireframe shapes and pressing the “render” button, you may as well say painting is as easy as taking a brush and slapping some color on a canvas. The same skills of composition, proportion, perspective, color and, yes,…

  • Benoît Mandelbrot

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    Benoît Mandelbrot is not an artist in the usual sense of the word. He doesn’t work with oils, watercolors, pastels or colored pencils, yet he has created work of extraordinary beauty. Benoît Mandelbrot is a mathematician. He coined the term “fractal” in 1975 to describe a shape that appears similar at all levels of magnification.…

  • Mathias Verhasselt

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    One of the interesting approaches to developing a style and warming up for larger projects that is common among digital painters, particularly those involved in concept design, is the practice of “speed painting”. The immediacy, absence of concerns with drying time and absorption of traditional materials, the ability to change brush sizes almost instantly and…