Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Sc-fi and Fantasy

  • Don Seegmiller

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    Don Seegmiller is one of those delightful artists that I have a hard time choosing a representative image for. If you go into the “Traditional Art” gallery on his site you’ll find his straightforward and nicely handled oil paintings of figures. Once into the Digital Art gallery, you’ll begin to see a mixture of colorful…

  • Jon Foster

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    Jon Foster’s newly updated site is still a little skimpy on background, and I don’t know a whole lot about him, except that I’ve admired his paintings in the Spectrum collections, seen some of his comic covers for DC and Dark Horse, and I like his work. He sometimes works almost (but not quite) monochromatically,…

  • John Picacio

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    John Picacio started out with a degree in architecture, moved into comics, then comics covers and then to science fiction book covers. He has illustrated books by Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman, Robert Silverberg, Lucius Shepard and many more. He has received the Chesley Award, the World Fantasy Award and was a finalist for a Hugo.…

  • Stephen Hickman

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    Many fantasy and science fiction artists create images of other worlds and other times. Few can imbue them with the feeling of cultured beauty that Stephen Hickman paints into his work. They are strange worlds, yes, but worlds where the inhabitants have gone to great lengths to beautify parts of their environment. This is an…

  • Marc Gabbana

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    Concept artist and illustrator Marc Gabbana has worked on films like Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, Hellboy, 8 Mile, War of the Worlds and The Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions. He has also done cover illustration for Image Comics and Dark Horse Comics, among others. Gabbana’s paintings utilize intense color…

  • James Gurney

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    I don’t usually post two full images by the same artist, but in this case I was fascinated to find out that an artist I thought I was familiar with is, in effect, two artists. Many people are familiar with James Gurney as the artist/creator of Dinotopia, a series of lavishly illustrated fantasy books about…