Social Media Ideas for Concept Art

“This began as a portrait study from reference before evolving into freeform exploration. I pushed the image even furthe...

Discover concept artist Alex Huneycutt's story-driven characters and environments.

Tutorial: Concept Art & Matte Painting for Film

Master professional techniques in Photoshop and Maya with ILM Art Director Igor Staritsin's masterclass for The Gnomon Workshop.

How I created a dramatic fight scene for the cover of a fantasy book in the aesthetic that I grew up with

Andrea Piparo shares his painting process and the ideas behind creating fantasy cover art.

Concept Artist Makes Automotive Art Feel Like Worldbuilding, Giving Every Car, Reflection, and Road a Sense of Motion an...

Alex Blyzniuk — a Ukrainian concept artist and visual-development specialist with more than 15 years of professional experience in games and animation. He is based in Rivne and foc...

This artist reimagined Star Wars with a League of Legends splash art style

Check out the fantasy art of Pavel Yurev.

Sketchbook special! Issue 272 of ImagineFX

Practical inspiration for your art projects

Tarn Leith’s Hard-Surface Designs And Character Concepts Live At The Intersection Of Science Fiction And Fantasy

Tarn Leith is a freelance concept artist who works under the handle TJL Art. His creative output centers on character design and science fiction concepts, often featuring hard-surf...

The Senior Art Director Behind Assassin’s Creed’s Visual Identity Shares His Personal Sketches And Monumental Landscape...

Raphaël Lacoste is a Senior Art Director and illustrator based in Montreal, Canada. He is one of the most recognized art directors in the video game industry, having worked at Ubis...

CREACTION Studio Builds Visual Worlds Where Screens, Light, Sound, and Architecture Perform as One System

CREACTION Studio is an independent Italian creative studio that designs visual systems for live shows, immersive spaces, brand experiences, and screens. Rather than treating animat...

“Fan art helps me escape my habits" – Recreating Distant Lands: Obsidian allowed this artist to explore colours, lightin...

Discover the art of Marc Magliari.

"For me, drawing is thinking out loud on canvas": Simon Pape on his process for creating a fantasy underwater scene

The freelance illustrator sees narrative as vital for inspiring creative decisions in art.

This artist blends traditional Chinese ink aesthetics with digital painting in Photoshop to create dynamic Three Kingdom...

Discover the work of concept designer Xianglong.

How those epic Hearthstone cards are made

Principal game artist Cole Eastburn teaches how to paint fantasy illustrations from start to finish.

This artist's dark fantasy concepts create a sense of unease and vast scale

Discover the art of Hassan Hameed.

Behind the scenes of Witchspire's spellbinding artistry

Envar Studio's game director and concept artist reveal how they crafted the new game's vast open world.

"I think of brushstrokes as having a rhythm" – Isabella Nalin Fais on her career in concept art

The Brazilian-born artist talks about her work and influences.

“Ideas for my art come from different places. In this case, I was inspired by an iron maiden paired with a goblin who ta...

Satoshi Kamanaka on mixing fantasy art with the compositions of Golden Age illustrators.

Artist Makes Digital Worlds Feel Real by Giving Them the Weight of History, Weather, Architecture, and Survival

Guillem H. Pongiluppi, a Barcelona-based freelance concept artist, digital illustrator, and matte painter specializing in historical reconstruction, virtual archaeology, fantasy, a...

How indie game Inkblood's hand-drawn art makes a 2D world feel alive

The game's weird vision of early-20th-century Central Europe draws on cutout animation and cult Czech cinema.

Awesome TRON: LEGACY “Gridhawks” Art Print by Casey Callender

Artist Combines Masterful Brushwork and Industrial Engineering to Make Sci-Fi Vehicles Feel Heavily Built and Battle-Tes...

John Wallin Liberto, an industry veteran concept artist, digital painter, and illustrator with more than two decades shaping AAA gaming and feature film production. Known across th...

Traditional Korean folklore, attire and weaponry inspire this artist's striking fantasy character designs

Discover the creative fantasy art of Grayboxx Essennoir.

AI-Artist Creates Dark Fantasy for the Moment After the Kingdom Falls and the Throne Is Left Empty

The Red Prince is an anonymous AI-artist behind the a dark-fantasy project centered on the aftermath of power: fallen kingdoms, dethroned rulers, ruined fortresses, cursed knights,...

Imaginary Forces Turns HBO's 'War' Titles Into an Abstract Battlefield

Director Ronnie Koff and his team hand-animated digital paint in Procreate and Krita, then added canvas, lighting and surface detail in Cinema 4D and Redshift, staging the legal dr...