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Category: Sc-fi and Fantasy

  • Peter Mohrbacher

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    Peter Mohrbacher is a painter, illustrator and concept artist who has left his successful career in the gaming industry, including work for “Magic: The Gathering”, for his ongoing personal project of creating “angels”. Fascinated by his discovery of the large number of named angels in several world mythologies, he began creating “angels” based on various…

  • Didier Graffet

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    Didier Graffet is a French illustrator, recognized in particular for his fantasy and steampunk themed work. Well known in his native France, Graffet is undeservedly less familiar here in the U.S. Graffet uses a keen sense of value relationships, a muted palette and a good amount of intricate, textural detail to create arresting images that…

  • Kyuong Hwan Kim (Tahra Art)

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    Kyuong Hwan Kim is a Korean concept artist and illustrator, who works under the name of Tahra Art. Kyuong Hwan’s work is something of a mixed bag for me. Some of it falls under the heading of fairly typical anime influenced pin-up art, an insular style that is overly abundant these days, while other pieces…

  • Kevin Hong

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    Kevin Hong is a New York based illustrator who works in the fantasy art genre. Having graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2015, Hong’s portfolio is not yet extensive, but shows great promise in his engaging blend of influences from Japanese anime and US/European fantasy art. I particularly enjoy his use of color…

  • Imagery from the Bird’s Home: The Art of Bill Carman

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    There are certain contemporary artists in the field of fantastic art whose work I find a continual delight. Notable among them is Bill Carman, who I have written about previously here on Lines and Colors. All too often, I find artists in contemporary fantasy, concept and fantastic art (as well as in “Pop Surrealism”) who…

  • Jean-Baptiste Monge (update 2016)

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    Jean-Baptiste Monge is an illustrator, concept artist and character designer who I have featured previously on Lines and Colors. Monge combines superb draftsmanship, sensitive textural rendering, and a keen appreciation of color and value in his beautifully realized character creations — in particular his delightful gnomes, goblins, trolls and other “faerie folk”. Monge has an…