Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Sc-fi and Fantasy

  • Brian Despain

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    I just love robots. Big, little, advanced, retro, shiny, dinged, menacing, friendly or simply wacky, ‘bots leave lots of room for artists to play with forms, textures and wild ideas. Brian Despain paints great bots. His are of the dingy and dinged variety, and he excels at giving his metallic surfaces that battered and oxidized…

  • Aly Fell

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    Somewhere in the base of my brain lives the 12-year-old me, still a sucker for classic pin-up art, lurid pulp and detective story covers and clichéd 50’s sci-fi ray gun and spaceship illustrations, particularly involving beautiful women. So I can’t help but love images like this mock comic cover, in all its misty-planet, skin-tight spacesuit…

  • Tom Kidd

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    I’ve long had a fascination with airships. The idea of an aircraft that drifts slowly through the sea of sky, gently buoyed by the density of air rather than forcing its way up with raw power, has always seemed appealing. If they ever get around to offering luxury cruises by airship, I’ll be among the…

  • Ralph McQuarrie

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    Ralph McQuarrie, although now retired, had a long and distinguished career as a pioneering and influential concept artist for the film and TV industries. He is most noted as the design consultant and conceptual artist for the original three Star Wars films. It’s hard to overstate the impact he had, not only on the look…

  • Daniel Dos Santos

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    Dan Dos Santos is a Connecticut illustrator who has done work for a variety of commercial and editorial clients, including Boeing Aircraft, Scholastic, Ace Books, Penguin, Tor Books, UpperDeck and Wizards of the Coast. His refined realist style allows him to create convincing images of fantastic subjects, including lively dragons, startling monsters, convincing wizards and…

  • The Art Department (Irene Gallo)

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    As in almost any field of endeavor, the quality and character of art directors runs the gamut. At their worst, they fulfill the cliché as a source of headaches and the butt of jokes for designers and illustrators. At their best, however, art directors play a significant role in the course of design and illustration,…