Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Douglas Smith (update)

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    Douglas Smith is an illustrator whose specialty is working in the fascinating medium of scratchboard. I first wrote about him in 2013, and I thought iw would be interesting to check back into see some additional work. He uses the wonderfully graphic nature of the medium, both in black and white and in color, to…

  • Ilya Milstein

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    Ilya Milstein is an award winning Italian-Australian illustrator with an impressive client list, currently based in New York. Milstein has a clean, open style that pops with visual charm. While many of his images use traditional linear perspective, a number are in isometric projection. This is a method of representing three dimensional space in which…

  • Minna Sundberg

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    Minna Sundberg is a Danish comics artist and illustrator with a lively, visually charming style. In the illustrations featured in her DeviantART portfolio and the portfolio of her work on Character Design Reverences, I find a fascinating tendency to work with strategically limited palettes. Sundberg is the author and artist of a number of webcomics.…

  • Frédéric Pillot

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    Though not well known here in the U.S. (and undeservedly so), Frédéric Pillot is well known in France as a creator of comics, illustrations and beloved children’s books. Pillot pushes the stylized exaggeration of his characters and environments out to the limits, and then wraps his scenes in lovingly rendered detail, atmosphere and lighting effects.…

  • Jourdan Truffan

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    Jourdan Truffan is a concept artist snd illustrator based in Sydney, Australia who works digially in Photoshop and Blender. His fresh, nicely styleized designs for both characters and environments have an appealing clarity and precision. He applies to that solid foundation a playful sense of light and shadow, giving his scenes a sense of atmosphere.…

  • Wenjun Lin

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    Wenjun Lin is a game development artist, illustrator and comics artist based in Shanghai. There is a portfolio on Character Design Reference, and another on Art Station I don’t know specifically which projects the images are from, but most have a delightful, innocent childrens book illustration vibe and a playful anime spirit. They’re lush with…