Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Digital Painting

  • Spectrum 13

    I should have written about this sooner, but I have such a long list of goodies to tell you about that it can take a while to get to a particular one. Spectrum 13 (Amazon link) came out a couple of months ago. This is the latest in the Spectrum yearly collections of contemporary fantastic…

  • Mélanie Delon

    Mélanie Delon is a French artist who trained in art history and archeology. She later attended school for game design, but decided that wasn’t the path for her. According to her site, she began to work digitally in Photoshop about a year ago. Since then has been doing digital painting in Photoshop and Painter. Digital…

  • Jon Foster (update)

    When I point you to web based resources for images from the artists I feature on lines and colors, I don’t emphasize nearly enough how limited those images are when compared to images in print. I’m second to none in my appreciation for how well images can display on screen. I was one one of…

  • Greg Broadmore

    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…

  • Mark Rogalski

    One of the most basic forms for children’s books is the ABC book, a tried and true formula with a long history, that usually presents a challenge for illustrators: to come up with a way to make images associated with the alphabet that are amusing enough to keep a child’s attention through repeated readings. The…

  • John Uibel

    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…