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Category: Sc-fi and Fantasy

  • Aleksi Briclot

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    Aleksi Briclot is a Paris-based concept artist and art director for the gaming industry as well as an illustrator and comics artist. His game credits include lead artist on ColdFear, a horror themed action game from DarkWorks and Ubisoft, Splinter Cell Double Agent and the new titles Haze from Ubisoft and Dungeon Runners from NCSoft.…

  • Leoartz Link Collector

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    Link Collector is just that, a well arranged collection of links to sites for illustrators, digital painters, concept artists, matte painters and comics artists. The illustrators are primarily science fiction and fantasy, and there is an emphasis on concept art and digital painting. The category labeled “Traditional and Sculpture” seems to refer to traditional media,…

  • Volkan Baga

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    I wasn’t particularly surprised to find that, in addition to his other training and education, German illustrator Volkan Baga spent some time as a studio assistant to Donato Giancola. I say that not because I saw overt similarities in the work, but because of the presence of traditional old-school European painting techniques evident in the…

  • Robert F. Walters

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    Scientific illustration is sometimes thought of as mundane, but there is an area where it crosses over into subject matter that is more dramatic, bizarre and wild than the most fevered dreams of Surrealist painters, fantasy illustrators or movie concept artists, namely paleo art. Dinosaurs can capture our imagination like few other aspects of the…

  • Fred Gambino

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    For years Fred Gmbino’s refined, confidently rendered and highly accomplished paintings have been gracing the covers of science fiction and fantasy books, as well as serving the needs of clients like National Geographic, Scientific American, Der Speigel, Lego, Mattel and The US Postal Service. Over that time his approach has changed, from oil to acrylic…

  • Spectrum 14

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    There are a number of illustration annuals, showcasing the editors’ choices for notable contemporary illustration. I look forward to several of them, The Society of Illustrator’s Annual, for example, but for many years (14 to be exact) my favorite illustration annual has been Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, edited by Cathy Fenner and…