Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Robh Ruppel

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    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…

  • Josh McKible

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    I love those hazy areas where one type of imagery blurs into another, where comics fade into illustration and illustration blends into easel painting and so on. Josh McKible is an illustrator who is often called on to either explain concepts or processes or to conceptualize an idea. In service of this he utilizes a…

  • Cali Rezo

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    Cali Rezo is a French artist who works digitally in Photoshop. She concentrates largely on faces, either direct portraits, or somewhat stylized portraits in which she sometimes plays with drawing the eyes larger than normal, giving the faces, particularly those of children, a doll-like effect. She will also often incorporate a graphic background rather than…

  • James Bama

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    I first became impressed with the work of James Bama when I encountered his dramatic covers for the paperback versions of the Doc Savage pulp novels. (Doc Savage was an interesting pulp character that I think influenced modern superheroes in a big way, i.e. Superman = Doc Savage + Flash Gordon, and Batman = The…

  • Kay Nielsen

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    Danish artist Kay (pronounced “Kigh”) Nielsen was one of the great illustrators of the period from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries that is usually referred to as the “Golden Age of Illustration”. Nielsen is often mentioned in the same sentence with two other amazing illustrators, who were at the top of an…

  • Esao Andrews

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    Esao Andrews’ work fits loosely into a branch of contemporary fantastic art called “pop surrealism”. His work often involves portrait-like images of young women in conjunction with odd elements, such as objects that are combinations of plant and animal forms, apparently intended to be a bit disconcerting. Some of his paintings are more straightforward, almost…