Lines and Colors

Lines and Colors is a blog about painting, drawing, sketching, illustration, comics, cartoons, webcomics, art history, concept art, gallery art, digital art, artist tools and techniques, motion graphics, animation, sci-fi and fantasy illustration, paleo art, storyboards, matte painting, 3d graphics and anything else I find visually interesting. If it has lines and/or colors, it’s fair game.

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Promoting some friends and some clients of my website design business

Arthur Mount

September 7, 2005

Arthur Mount is a California illustrator who does crisp, elegant vector illustrations for a variety of clients, editorial and commercial. He has an eye for pulling the the important essentials out of a face or landscape. Unlike a lot of minimalist illustrators, he manages to leave enough elements of shadows, texture and suggestions of modeling to provide real visual interest without sacrificing simplicity.

The site is nicely done in Flash, except that you have to know to click on the tiny link for “Illustration” on the left to get to the heart of the site: the galleries. Once that menu opens, choose from “People, Places or Things” to finally access the gallery interface.

http://www.arthurmount.com/

Categories:
Illustration
Erik Tiemens

September 6, 2005

Paintings and painted sketches of landscapes and cities in a beautiful, loose, painterly style. Browse through the Gallery but don’t miss some of the work tucked away on the home page and News page. My favorites are the gouache and watercolor sketches in the Maine and More Europe sections.

Tiemens also happens to be a front-rank concept artist, and was a concept design supervisor on the last two Star Wars films, among others. The Gallery includes a selection of his concept art.

He has also included some tools and techniques info on the FAQs page.

http://www.watersketch.com/index.html

Categories:
Concept & Visual Dev., Gallery and Museum Art, Painting, Sketching
Mike Weiringo

September 5, 2005

Mike Wieringo is a comic book artist most familiar for his work on Tellos and his well received run on Fantastic Four. His drawings have an easy confidence and playfullness of line that make them particularly appealing as pencil drawings. The site gallery has lots of his pencils, unfortunately reproduced kind of small. Fortunately, Mike has started a blog in which he often posts his drawings nice and big.

http://www.mikewieringo.com/

Categories:
Comics
Orisinal

September 2, 2005

“Orisinal: Morning Sunshine” is a collection of small Flash based games by Ferry Halim. Everything about this site is a cleverly done, from the elegant design of the games themselves to the amusing rollover effect of the initial thumbnail gallery.

Even if you never play games, it’s worth clicking into the game interfaces far enough to see the design and illustrations. (Go past the instructions to the actual game.) The illustrations often have a pastel/watercolor charm that would be suitable for children’s books. You can just think of it as a gallery in which the artwork happens to move and be interactive.

If you’re into motion graphics experiments and effects, scroll down on the main page to the text links for “Old Experiments”.

Then click over to this site’s flip side: The Second Vision to find links to the artist’s professional motion graphics and Flash game work for The Cartoon Network, Adult Swim and others.

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/

Categories:
Illustration, Motion Graphics & Flash
George Hull

September 1, 2005

George Hull is a concept artist who has worked on productions like The Matrix Reloaded, Martix Revolutions and Finding Nemo.

His gallery includes production art from those projects and others. There are several instances of both a pencil and painted version of the same piece, which I really enjoy.

http://www.ghull.com/

Categories:
Concept & Visual Dev., Digital Art
SketchCrawl

August 31, 2005

Enrico Casarosa is a storyboard artist for Pixar. He is also a character designer and comics artist. You can browse through his portfolio which includes sketches, character designs, backgrounds, storyboards, figure drawing and comics. He has a webcomic called Haiku 5-7-5.

At one point, after a “pubcrawl” with some friends, he got a notion put together his sketching stuff and devote a day to a “SketchCrawl”, spending the day wandering around San Francisco sketching until he ran out of day. (Here’s his description of coming up with the idea.) The results of his day of sketching are posted here.

He liked the experience so much he repeated it and collected the drawings as a book. He then expanded the idea to organized “Worldwide SketchCrawls”, inviting other artists to join in on a particular day and “sketch till you crawl”. He created a site devoted to the SketchCrawls that features bulletin boards for discussing the events and planning new ones. What a great idea.

Enrico also has a new blog, often devoted to the SketchCrawls.

http://sketchcrawl.com/

Categories:
Comics, Illustration, Sketching, Webcomics