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Category: Sc-fi and Fantasy

  • Ming Fan

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    Ming Fan (or “fanming” as he is sometimes credited) is a Chinese concept artist and illustrator based in Shanghai. He specializes in environments — fantastical imaginary landscapes and cityscapes. He renders them in lavish detail, often creating compositions in which there is a primary focal point along with two or more secondary areas of interest…

  • Torstein Nordstrand

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    Torstein Nordstrand is an illustrator and concept artist based in the Bergen area of Norway. His clients include St Martin’s Press, Random House, Wizards of the Coast, Upper Deck, White Wolf Publishing, Cappelen Forlag and Gyldendal Norsk Forlag. There are portfolios of his work on his own website, the Shannon Associates site and on CGHub.…

  • Ed Binkley (update)

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    It’s been a while since I checked in on fantasy and concept artist Ed Binkley, so I thought I’d pull back the deep forest undergrowth and see what’s happening under the leaves. The good news is that Binkley has posted additional images to his blog and his Holy-Men and Monsters gallery. Binkley’s wonderfully textural evocations…

  • Victor Nizovtsev

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    Victor Nizovtsev was born in Russia and studied at the Ilia Repin Collge for Art in Chisinau, Moldavia and the Vera Muhina University for Industrial Arts in St. Petersburg. He now lives in the U.S. in Maryland. His paintings have some of the narrative character of Golden Age children’s book illustration, and draw on influences…

  • David Wyatt (update)

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    David Wyatt is a UK based illustrator working primarily in the fantasy genre for children’s books. Since I wrote about him in 2009, Wyatt has a new website and a new blog, along with, of course, lots of delightful new material online. In many of his feature illustrations, done in watercolor, Wyatt has a richly…

  • Sam Burley

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    Sam Burley is an illustrator who was formerly an matte painter; beyond that, his website offers little information. His work shows his matt painting history, with beautifully realized landscapes and environments, but he also populates them with dynamic and wonderfully rendered creatures. Fortunately, Burley provides good size images on his site, as his work shows…