Joël Dos Reis Viegas, who also goes by the alias Feerik, is the concept artist I’ve decided to feature this week. He has a strong background in animation and many years experience as a successful concept artist. According to his site, Joël has been involved in TV animation series as well as video games. He [...]
Thought I’d feature another artist who I’ve been following for a while. Wesley has a very creepy and distinctive style to his work, which is probably why I love it so much. From his final pieces, right down to his sketch work. His painting style is something I’d like to work towards eventually with my [...]
This week I have decided to concentrate on a singular artist. That artist is Mike P Mitchell. You may of seen that I featured his self portrait piece in my previous inspiration for the week. I love the ideas that he comes up with for his concept artwork. You should check out his websites. Links [...]
For this week, digital portraits. Creating realistic portraits causes quite a debate in the art and design circles. Usually along the lines of: “Why bother? Why not just take a photo?”. Having attempted one myself, I know a lot of time goes into it. Mine was from reference (using an existing photo to look at [...]
This week I wanted to feature some futuristic cityscapes that I’ve been looking at. Artist Alex Chin Yu Chu I found over at ConceptArtWorld, which is quickly becoming one of my new favourite concept art sites. I first discovered Gary Tonge and his work when reading his book Bold Visions: The Digital Painting Bible, which [...]
A concept artist is someone who generates original ideas and communicates them visually. They must create the style and feel for characters, environments and objects. This can be in the form of fantasy worlds and characters which could never exist, or perhaps architecture and design which can potentially be created for real. Concept art can [...]
I’ve been wondering how I would play out these inspiration posts for a while, but I think I’ve settled on a plan. Each week I will post work I have found inspiring and believe you will too. I will give it a theme each week. For example character design, conceptual art, abstract, fantasy, etc. I [...]
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