Category: Digital Painting
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Painting in Pixels, An Exhibition of Concept Art at the Riverside Art Museum
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,…
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Patrick Faulwetter digital plein air painting
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…
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Jot Touch pressure sensitive stylus for iPad reviewed
Those of us who enjoy drawing and painting digitally, either with a pressure sensitive tablet and stylus on a desktop computer, or with a capacitive stylus on an iPad (sorry, Apple, fingerpainting is for kids), are often frustrated with the disconnect between the two. Most notable is the lack of pressure sensitivity on the iPad,…
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Android Jones (update)
Andrew “Android” Jones has worked as a concept artist with companies like ILM and Nintendo, as well as Massive Black, which he co-founded. He was also co-founder of the popular ConceptArt.org community portal. Jones is also a creator of visionary art, using a variety of digital tools involving digital painting, vectors and CGI modeling. He…
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Simon Dominic
Simon Dominic (who you will sometimes see referred to as Simon Dominic Brewer) is an English illustrator and concept artist. Like many contemporary concept artists and illustrators working in the science fiction and fantasy vein, Simon works digitally, painting his compositions in Corel Painter and Art Rage Studio Pro (see my 2011 review of Art…
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Stop PIPA and SOPA
If you stopped by Lines and Colors yesterday, January 18, you may have noticed that Lines and Colors had gone dark, along with a significant number of other sites, in protest, and to raise awareness of the “anti-piracy” internet censorship bills looming in the U.S. Congress. If you didn’t happen to stop by yesterday, but…