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Category: Sc-fi and Fantasy

  • Kekai Kotaki

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    Hawaii born Kekai Kotaki is an illustrator and concept artist for the gaming industry now living and working in Seattle. He is currently working as Lead Concept Artist on Guild Wars 2 for Arena.net. He has previously done work for Wizards of the Coast, Tor Books, Blur DC Comics, Fantasy Flight Games and Ballistic Publishing,…

  • Interview with Jean-Baptiste Monge

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    Jennifer Oliver was kind enough to write and let me know that she has posted a two-part interview with French fantasy illustrator and concept artist Jean-Baptiste Monge (who I profiled previously here) on her blog Academy of Art Character and Creature Design Notes. An Interview with Jean-Baptiste Monge, Part 1, and Part 2. The blog…

  • Ian McQue

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    Ian McQue is a concept artist, illustrator and art director for the gaming industry. He is currently working for Rockstar North, and gaming aficionados will recognize the several Grand Theft Auto titles to his credit, along with an number of other games. McQue works in both traditional and digital media, the latter including Photoshop, Illustrator…

  • Xenozoic

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    Long time readers of Lines and Colors will know of my fascination with dinosaurs and paleo art, my fondness for science fiction and adventure stories and their accompanying illustrations, my admiration for the beautiful ink drawings of classic illustrators, the inspired adventure comic strips from the 1930’s and 1940’s that carried their traditions forward, and…

  • William Stout: Inspirations

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    I am unabashed in my enthusiasm for the work of William Stout, and I’ve written about him previously several times here on Lines and Colors (links below). In particular, I take great delight in his beautiful drawings in pen and ink with watercolor. I’ve been looking forward to the release of William Stout: Inspirations from…

  • Moebius art on Tumblr

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    Jean Giraud, more commonly known as Moebius, and who also signs some work as “GIR”, is a French comics artist and illustrator, very well known in Europe, less so here in the U.S. Moebius is my favorite comics artist, and if you think of him as an illustrator, one of my favorites in that category…