Category: Digital Painting
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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…
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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…
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Brian Despain
I just love robots. Big, little, advanced, retro, shiny, dinged, menacing, friendly or simply wacky, ‘bots leave lots of room for artists to play with forms, textures and wild ideas. Brian Despain paints great bots. His are of the dingy and dinged variety, and he excels at giving his metallic surfaces that battered and oxidized…
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Aly Fell
Somewhere in the base of my brain lives the 12-year-old me, still a sucker for classic pin-up art, lurid pulp and detective story covers and clichéd 50’s sci-fi ray gun and spaceship illustrations, particularly involving beautiful women. So I can’t help but love images like this mock comic cover, in all its misty-planet, skin-tight spacesuit…
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Daryl Mandryk
I don’t know why, exactly, but it seems like most adolescent boys, including the ones that remain in charge of some part of us as adults, love a good monster. A lot of girls like monsters too, of course, but it seems much more ingrained in boys. Perhaps it’s some primal urge to slay the…
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Robh Ruppel
Robh Ruppel is a visual development artist and art director for Disney Feature Animation, and has worked on movies like Mulan, The Emporer’s New Groove, Treasure Planet, Atlantis, Tarzan, and Brother Bear, for which he was Art Director. He has also done gaming art and worked on gaming worlds like Ravenloft and Planescape for TSR…