Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Digital Painting

  • Eric Spray

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    Eric Spray is a concept artist for the Gaming industry who has worked on projects like worked on projects like X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Singularity, Black Ops and Modern Warfare 3. Though he is prevented by non-disclosure agreements from posting his most recent work, his blog features an array of past work, along with personal projects,…

  • Dominick Saponaro

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    Dominick Saponaro is an illustrator based here in Philadelphia, whose clients include Simon & Schuster, Holiday House, The Science Fiction Book Club, Solaris Books, and Bethlehem books. When I first viewed his online portfolio, I was struck by a number of digitally painted works in grayscale, reminiscent both in that respect, and in the subject…

  • Ming Fan

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    Ming Fan (or “fanming” as he is sometimes credited) is a Chinese concept artist and illustrator based in Shanghai. He specializes in environments — fantastical imaginary landscapes and cityscapes. He renders them in lavish detail, often creating compositions in which there is a primary focal point along with two or more secondary areas of interest…

  • Tiago Hoisel

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    Tiago Hoisel is an illustrator and digital painter from Brazil. Hoisel works primarily in Photoshop to create his wildly exaggerated portrayals of people, famous and otherwise, as well as animals and other characters. His caricatures, as stretched and loopy as they may be, are grounded in the tactile realism of detailed textures and firm control…

  • Painting in Pixels, An Exhibition of Concept Art at the Riverside Art Museum

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    Concept art has become essential to the entertainment industry. Conceptually envisioning scenes before they’re created has evolved as a key part of a production process that often involves computer generated imagery or compositing. For those of us who love the genre — which can combine some of the best aspects of painted sketches, finished illustration,…

  • Patrick Faulwetter digital plein air painting

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    Long before the relatively recent advent of the iPad and the digital painting apps for it that have ushered in a new wave of “digital plein air painting”, some artists, myself included, were painting digitally from life using laptop computers and pressure sensitive tablets. Most of these artists had backgrounds in other types of digital…