Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Basil Wolverton

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    What has skin like the cratered and mountainous surface of an alien planet, teeth that look like diseased barnacles, popping bloodshot eyeballs that would have made Big Daddy Roth grimace in envy and, of course, carefully combed hair and a pearl necklace? Why, it’s one of Basil Wolverton’s charming beauties, of course! Wolverton was a…

  • Sarah Mensinga

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    Sarah Mensinga is an illustrator and concept artist living in Texas. The brief bio on her site indicates that she is a graduate of the Sheridan College classical animation program, and has worked on various animated TV shows and films, including The Ant Bully. You can see some of her work for that film in…

  • Martin French

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    California born illustrator Martin French graduated from the Art Center College of Design and now lives in Oregon, where he serves as Illustration Chair for the new BFA Illustration program, which he helped found, at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland. His professional work includes graphics for the Salt Lake City Olympics and…

  • Laurent Beauvallet

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    Laurent Beauvallet is a French illustrator and concept artist now living in England. He has worked on a number of well known collectable card games like Legend of the Five Rings (image above), Everquest, Warhammer40K and Star Wars, as well as console games like Nightmare Creatures, Galleon and Heavenly Sword. His illustrations have appeared on…

  • Nick Bertozzi

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    One of the great things about the burgeoning independent comics scene here in the U.S. is that a wider readership is beginning to see beyond the narrow cliché of “comics = superheroes” that has dominated the public’s general perception of what comics are, and open their eyes to some of the wider possibilities of the…

  • Dan May

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    “Taunt Your Monster” says the title of one of Dan May’s images, and taunt them he does, in the process delighting us with a fascinating beastiary of odd flora and fauna. His creatures, monsters, occasional people and animal-like thingies inhabit charmingly odd environments that look like undersea landscapes or perhaps the ice caves of Muni…