When doing plein air painting, you can't possibly bring enough paints to capture all the colors you will see in the landscape. In Part 11 of this mini series, veteran concept artist and avid landscape painter, Nathan Fowkes, gets to the core of limiting...

Veteran entertainment industry concept artist, Nathan Fowkes, teaches a class on Schoolism.com on painting landscapes in watercolor and gouache because it's something that he loves and is passionate about. In Part 10 of this mini series, he gets to the...

LightBox Expo is THIS WEEKEND! For tickets, go to https://www.lightboxexpo.com! Charlotte Belland is the Chair and an Associate Professor of Animation at the Columbus College of Art & Design. She is a prolific teacher and animal illustrator who,...

"Paint this cityscape full of windows and doors and lights and have it done by the end of the week." Heard this before? This was veteran concept artist, Nathan Fowkes' unenviable assignment on Sinbad: The Legend of the Seven Seas. In Part 9 of this mini...

From speaking to Finnian MacManus, you can tell that he has given his art -- his philosophy, methodology, and workflow -- a LOT of thought. Partly this was out of necessity because of the high profile work he has done, and partly because, well, he's...

It's not surprising that award-winning plein air painter, John Burton, is a big proponent of taking your art outside. But what if you're a digital artist who works exclusively on the computer, or a concept artist who paints out of your imagination? No...

Rachael Dunk: Senior Look Development Director

By the time you're watching this video, art director Max Ulichney will have probably already left Elastic, the design studio he'd been at for over a decade, and gone into the film industry. This move is news to Bobby and they spend the rest of the...

To award-winning plein air painter, John Burton, shape-making is the common denominator between all kinds of art. His goal is always to present interesting shapes--shapes that might not look like anything specific up close but then you back up a few...

Epic Games 3D Character Artist, Matt Thorup, started his art career by jumping in with both feet. In this interview, he talks about the amazing things that he launched into with enthusiasm -- in his career and in his life -- and how that made all the...