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Category: Sc-fi and Fantasy

  • Klaus Pillon

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    Klaus Pillon is a French illustrator and concept artist. His atmospheric landscapes and environments are often cast in limited color ranges, with an emphasis on tone and accents of color to provide focus and drama. His command of atmospheric perspective and soft edges allows him to project a feeling of large scale in many of…

  • Tyler Jacobson (update)

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    When I first profiled illustrator Tyler Jacobson here on Lines and Colors in 2010, he was only about a year out of graduation from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, but already accepting major clients, as well as representation from Richard Solomon. Since then, he has continued to develop his dramatic style and…

  • YongSub Noh

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    YongSub Noh is a Korean concept artist and illustrator, about whom I can find little other information. His work, however, is richly imaginative and nicely realized. The best gallery is on CGHub, which is where I encountered his work. He has a blog, on which you can find larger images, detail crops and lots of…

  • Benjamin Carre

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    Benjamin Carre is a French illustrator, concept artist and comics artist. I’ve found little biographical or background info on him, but his website showcases his work in a variety if areas, including a few brief step-throughs of his digital painting process. I particularly enjoy his use of atmosphere and texture to convey mood, and the…

  • Simon Stålenhag

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    For several years Swedish concept artist and illustrator Simon Stålenhag has been working on a series of digital images that, though initially just fanciful works done for practice or his own amusement, gradually evolved a common theme. The images portray somewhat dystopian times involving futuristic machinery, slightly retro vehicles and suggestions of gleaming cities… and,…

  • James Gurney's How I Paint Dinosaurs

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    Long time readers of Lines and Colors will know that I’m an admirer of the work of illustrator and painter James Gurney. I also love dinosaurs and paleontological art, an area in which Gurney is one of the foremost artists working today, so I was delighted to receive a review copy of Gurney’s instructional DVD…