Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Fossard Christophe

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    Fossard Christophe, AKA “Biboun”, is a French illustrator, concept artist and character designer working in gaming, animation and comics. He has a whimsical touch and a freshly cartoony style that gives his work a lighthearted appeal. Though he also enjoys working in traditional media, Christophe primarily works digitally in Photoshop and Corel Painter. [Via @DCADLibrary]

  • Michael Parkes

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    Michael Parkes is an American painter, printmaker and sculptor now based in Spain. Parkes takes inspiration in his affection for a variety of artistic sensibilities, from Renaissance portraits to 19th century academic and Orientalist painters, Symbolists like Gustav Klimt, Art Nouveau posters, Golden Age children’s book illustrators — particularly Maxfield Parrish — and classic pin-up…

  • World War I professional combat art

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    Today is Memorial Day here in the U.S., a day set aside to honor those who have died while in military service. I’ve written previously on combat artists — soldiers who happened to be artists, or artists who happened to be soldiers — often specially commissioned by the military to document their experiences as only…

  • Agim Sulaj

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    Originally from Albania and now based in Itally, Agim Sulaj is a realist painter who also does award-winning editorial cartoons and illustrations. The galleries on the artist’s website are divided between paintings and illustrations and cartoons. Sulaj’s paintings are in oil and often large in scale; his illustrations and cartoons are in acrylic, tempera and…

  • McLean Kendree

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    McLean Kendree is an illustrator and concept artist who has worked with companies like THQ, Hasbro and 38 Studios, and is currently with Massive Black in San Fransicso. Kendree’s website and Tumblog include examples of his digitally painted professional work and personal projects, along with traditional media drawings and paintings from life, as well as…

  • Vladimir Stankovic

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    Originally from Serbia, illustrator and designer Vladimir Stankovic is currently based in Denmark. Stankovic’s fascinatingly textural style, rendered in muted colors and close value relationships, often deals with a bizarre bestiary, consisting of fantastical land animals, insects and sea creatures. Among the projects on his sites are subtle animated GIFs and images of a pop-up…