THE WORLD’S BEST FANTASY ARTISTS SHARE THEIR SKETCHES
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Dive into the minds – and the sketchbooks – of some of the world’s best fantasy and concept artists and illustrators… 10
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Arman Akopian
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Fred Augis
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Wylie Beckert
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Paul Bonner
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Randy Bishop
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Charlie Bowater
Sergi Brosa
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Bill Carman
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Wes Burt
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Devon Cady-Lee
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Edin Durmisevic
Paul Dolan
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Tara Fernon
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Tony Foti
Tom Fowler
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Genzoman
Dan Howard
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MERCENARY
“I like to integrate teeth into my masks. There’s something pleasing about the nonsense of a carnivorous cyborg. You wouldn’t want to marry one.”
ROCKET SERIES 3
“This pin-up sketch is my twist on the cliché of a good-looking girl riding a rocket. How did I do?”
“There’s something pleasing about the nonsense of a carnivorous cyborg” 16
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Fred Augis OTHER TATTOO
“The notebook is where all my sketches start their lives – I use a large moleskine sketchbook with a 2B pencil.”
TECHNO CLOTHES
“Some research doodles for character design.”
WIRED
“Wires are important in this series – it’s crucial for me to get the movement and shape of the wires across successfully.”
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Wes Burt
The Massive Black ace opens his Moleskine and reveals the thinking behind his striking visions Batman
“I’ve always been a big Batman fan and one day at a coffee shop I started sketching out a loose idea I had in my head for a Batman cover. I wanted to make Robin a bit different, almost like a mutant.”
Jumble
“Sometimes I start working up drawings of forms and shapes in a more abstract manner, and then bring it all together through rendering and uniform lighting. It’s a real mix of improvisation and retooling.”
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profile Wes Burt Country: US Wes works out of San Francisco at the offices of Massive Black, as a concept artist. He’s produced art for films and games, most recently the Dinobots for Transformers: Age of Extinction, and The Sims 4. He’s a huge fan of sketching on paper, either in a Moleskine or on pads of Bristol paper that are scattered around his desk. wesleyburt.tumblr.com
Wes Burt French Jaeger pilot
“I did this one after seeing Pacific Rim. I was just having fun drawing at a brunch place in town.”
Thundercat
“This started as a quick sketch of a musician, Thundercat, sort of taken into a sky pirate RPG idea. I took the original sketch a lot further for this drawing and worked up the whole body.”
Flying Lotus
“As I was working on the Thundercat drawing, I had ideas for a compatriot of his, Flying Lotus.”
“Sometimes I start working up drawings of forms and shapes in an abstract manner…”
Entanglement
“I had this image in my head of a page filled with a sea of heads – not quite a crowd of people, but forms flowing in and out of each other a bit and lots of interesting features to drift around and look at.”
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Inspector and Penny
“Inspector Gadget was one of my favourite cartoons when I was a child. Here I was going for a gritty vibe, while staying true to the cartoon’s roots.”
The Mermaid
“A couple of years ago, my office was really close to a branch of Starbucks. I used to go there for coffee and sketch there on my break time.”
“I love drawing pirates – there are a lot of cool elements to work with” 74
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Genzoman
Aqueronte
“Sketch for an unreleased game. I tried to maintain a HR Giger vibe on Aqueronte’s design. Greek myths are great!”
Pirate girl
“A sketch for the upcoming board game The Pirate’s Flag. I love drawing pirates – there are a lot of cool elements to work with.”
Pathfinder
“Compositional sketches for the covers of Pathfinder: City of Secrets #1 and #2.”
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Line Drawings for NodeWorld
“NodeWorld was a community project where I was building a fictional game world with other artists. These sketches are a bit more than simple experiments, because I wanted to bring them to an almost comic-book linework finish. My goal was to bring them to a stage where it would be really easy to colour and detail them to become a final illustration.”
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Mark Molnar
Urban Sketching
“I use a really small pocket sketchbook for doing life-drawing sketches on the go. I use it on the street, in cafés, buses, airports, etc. The function of this is simply practice. I don’t want to create the prettiest line drawings, I just draw what I see. Streets, cars, nature, people – everything and anything around you can be inspiring.”
“I draw what I see. Streets, cars, nature, people – everything can be inspiring”
DRUID
“Usually I sketch fantastical creatures and characters that have been in the back of my mind for a long time, but it also happens that I just start drawing without any idea till something emerges from the random lines…”
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profile Artem Solop location: China
A Ukrainian living in China, Artem specialises in fusion – of east and west, of tech and the organic
Powa
Tiburon Bassline
“This guy is the driver of a futuristic Formula 1 vehicle. But it’s the future and so he drives a giant robotic shark instead of a car. I made a cool vector graphics piece based on this sketch.”
“This kawaii TV squid is some kind of hybrid between a robot and home video device, with cables instead of tentacles and early PC monitor head. This was a great exercise in drawing an ’80s-style background.”
“I’ve played in different bands, and music is still my main source of inspiration”
Gundam
“This is a kind of gothic robotic knight. He could be a scary guy if I drew him with black pen.”
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Artem is an Ukrainian artist who recently moved to China to explore his interests in animation and vector graphics, as well as punk graffiti culture. He’s working as a freelance illustrator and mobile game art director, and is inspired by electronic music, retro video games and graphic designs. Artem’s passion is to create a unique style using digital and traditional tools, a reminder of both the past and future of art. www.behance.net/artemsolop
Artem Solop Acid Punk
“This electronic musician mutant is playing some sort of bubble acid and having fun. So did I while drawing this picture. Just look at his amazing Roland TB-303 and kawaii creatures all around!�
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