Category: Sc-fi and Fantasy
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Vincent Dutrait
French illustrator Vincent Dutrait is well known in France and Asia, particularly in fantasy and role playing gaming circles, but not very familiar here in the U.S. Dutrait was born in Provence and now lives and works in Seoul, South Korea. He cites inspiration from great American illustrators of the Brandywine school like Howard Pyle…
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Matt Cavotta
According to his brief bio, illustrator Matt Cavotta grew up playing games like Scrabble, Balderdash and Boggle, grew into a fascination with fantasy games like Dungeons and Dragons and Magic: The Gathering, and carried his love of gaming into a career largely focused on illustrations for games. Notably, his work for the Magic: The Gathering…
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Tristan Schane
Tristan Schane began his art career doing comic book illustration for companies like Marvel, DC, First Comics and Continuity Comics. He began to do more painted covers and moved into more general illustration, producing work in watercolor, gouache, acrylic and oil for covers, posters, promotional art and merchandise. He eventually moved into doing paintings specifically…
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Keith Parkinson
Yesterday’s post, with its image of Gustaf Tenngren’s magically dark forest, put me in mind of another fantasy artist who painted wonderful forests and amazing trees, but with a distinctly diferent style. Keith Parkinson was an outstanding illustrator and fantasy artist whose life and career were sadly cut short in 2005 at the age of…
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Christophe Vacher
Before relocating to California in 1996, French artist Christophe Vacher worked for Disney’s Paris-based animation studio, painting backgrounds for features like The Hunchback of Notre Dame. (I want to know how the pitch meeting went for that movie. “Hey, I’ve got a great idea, let’s make a cheerful animated feature about… The Hunchback of Notre…
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How Not to Display Your Artwork on the Web
In the thirteen years I’ve been on the web, twelve of which I’ve spent doing professional web site design, and the last two of which have sent me to hundreds of artists’ web sites, I’ve come to the inevitable conclusion that the thing artists want most when placing their art on the web is for…