Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Barry Windsor-Smith

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    Barry Windsor-Smith is a British comic book artist and illustrator who initially made a name for himself in American comics with his art for the Marvel Comics’ adaptations of Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories in the 1970’s. Windsor-Smith (often simply referred to in print as “BWS”) was heavily influenced by the art of the Pre-Raphaelites…

  • Alphonse Mucha

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    Alfons Mucha, whose name is usually Anglicised as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter and graphic artist. While living in Paris in he late 1800’s he adopted a style that was to to become what most of us think of as Art Nouveau (orginally referred to as “Le style Mucha”). Mucha disliked the term “Art…

  • sparth construct (Nicolas Bouvier)

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    Nicolas Bouvier, known as Sparth, is a concept designer for high-end games, and also illustrates book covers. Born in France and now residing in Texas, Sparth has done concept art for games like Cold Fear and Prince of Persia – Warrior Within and illustrated book covers for authors like Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert and Neil…

  • Frank Cho (Liberty Meadows)

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    Frank Cho is a comics artist and illustrator best known as the creator of the Liberty Meadows newspaper comic strip, one of the best drawn syndicated strips in recent years. Cho’s wonderfully precise pen and ink work shows the influence of great pen and ink illustrators like Gibson, Cole and Booth and comics artists like…

  • John Sibbick

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    I’ll say right off that I just love dinosaur art: beautiful paintings and drawings of fantastic animals that actually existed. Wonderful. I loved it when I was a kid and I love it now. (I have my own book of Dinosaur Cartoons, in fact.) Nothing like a nice colorful dinosaur picture to start out your…

  • Dodecaden (Man Arenas)

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    Man Arenas is a production designer and concept artist, primarily for animated films. His production designs, storyboards, location drawings and character designs are sometimes simple, sometimes complex but always beautifully realized, He works in a loose, confident drawing style that is full of life and just plain fun to look at. Many of the images…