Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Digital Painting

  • James Paick

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    James Paick is a concept artist for the gaming industry, working out of Los Angeles and is a graduate of Art Center College of Design. Beyond that I know little, as his blog and web site don’t offer much in the way of biographical info, client lists or project credits. I do know, however, that…

  • Robert F. Walters

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    Scientific illustration is sometimes thought of as mundane, but there is an area where it crosses over into subject matter that is more dramatic, bizarre and wild than the most fevered dreams of Surrealist painters, fantasy illustrators or movie concept artists, namely paleo art. Dinosaurs can capture our imagination like few other aspects of the…

  • 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…

  • Colors! and Inchworm: digital painting applications for Nintendo DS

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    Since I first was introduced to computer graphics back in 1994, I’ve wanted a digital sketchbook. My wife still kids me because that year, after I was introduced to digital art by working with Photoshop on a friend’s Mac, I took a Photoshop book to the beach with us and read it like a novel,…

  • Andrew Jones

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    Andrew Jones, or Android Jones as he is sometimes known, is a concept artist and an early adopter of digital art tools. He has worked for ILM, Black Isle Studios, Retro Studios and is currently art director for Massive Black. He was integral to the concepts for well known games like Nintendo’s Metroid Prime and…

  • Nancy Stahl

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    Back in the mid-90’s, when the web was maybe 1/1000th of it’s current size, and digital art was in its infancy, I saw an image in a magazine (I think it was an illustration issue of Communication Arts) that grabbed my attention. It was a portrait image. It looked painterly, but with flat colors arranged…