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Category: Sc-fi and Fantasy

  • Eric Fortune

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    Illustrator and gallery artist Eric Fortune creates images that are at once fantastical and emotionally immediate. His subjects, often elongated and in motion, seem isolated but straining to connect, adrift in worlds just beyond their understanding. His paintings, are done in acrylic on watercolor paper, and always have a strong element of texture, complimenting his…

  • Ed Binkley

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    Concept artist and illustrator Ed Binkley has crafted a style of illustration that seems at once old and new. His finely detailed, almost monochromatic images feel as though they are from another time, or perhaps another place, with fantasy subjects inhabiting misty woods and glades, all drawn with meticulous care. Despite the level of detail…

  • William Smith

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    After graduating from Clemson University, William Smith started his career in advertising, eventually working with clients like Coke, Novartis, Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble. In 2008 he shifted into a new career as a concept artist in the gaming industry, and is now working with TimeGate Studios. His online portfolio is divided into three sections,…

  • DinoMixer Reviewed on Wired’s GeekDad

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    I don’t often talk about my own work here on Lines and Colors, but every once and a while there’s something interesting enough to mention. I was particularly pleased when I learned that my dinosaur mix and match iPhone app DinoMixer was given a very nice review this morning on Wired. The review, Build Your…

  • John Berkey (update)

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    John Berkey, who died in 2008, was one of the premiere space artists. His distinctive style graced the covers and interiors of a wide variety of publications with visionary images of the future. Berkey had a wider range of style and subject matter than is widely known. Since my article about John Berkey in 2006,…

  • David Wyatt

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    David Wyatt is a UK illustrator known for his fantasy themed work. He has illustrated books by a number of notable authors, including J.R.R. Tolkein, Terry Prachett, Phillip Pullman, Brian Jaques and Diana Wynne Jones. After a brief bit of comics work on Tharg’s Future Shock for 2000AD, and a stint in a rock band,…