When you get a Character Artist with this level of skill, the results speak for themselves. — I have a terrible secret. Shameful though it may be, I am a huge sucker for an Artstation art dump and if it is for a game or IP that I am keenly following than its almost a guarantee that I will be discovering a new artist and writing about…

Illustrations like Anato’s clearly show a love affair with their favorite themes and media like Elden Ring and DUNE — Anato Finnstark is an independent illustrator, freelancing across a wide spectrum of media but mainly focusing on media like TCGs, Album covers for studios and concept art for animated media. She has a large collection of work for Magic the Gathering, which seems to be the go to for all…

The Gulf between homage and industry standard is often and unfortunately deep, but Dmitry proves that this does not have to be the case. — It is great to see an artist that has a love affair with an IP get a chance to actually work for the company that creates it. He was able to spend a year working on 2D art at Blizzard, cranking out awesome illustrations for games like World of Warcraft…

An illustrator who brings to light an entirely different vision of your favorite characters — Sometimes you run across an artist who has such a clear emotional connection to their art and the subject of that art that its almost blinding. Qi Jingyan has a clear appreciation for the media they is creating fan content for.

Bringing an old-school cool level of illustration style and design — There is a thing that I fell in love with when I was growing up, a specific cliche trope that the fantasy novels I cut my teeth on would do. That is to create these epic, painted scenes that were crammed on the limited space across the book cover that…

A 3D Character artist with a beautiful sculpting style, her creature designs have graced the DOTA battle-pass for years. —

The twenty plus years of work that Sergi has done to perfect his craft is evident across his body of work — When part of your job is to look at amazing artists and write your thoughts on them, you tend to see a lot of very impressive work pedigrees. …

At Blizzard there seems to be an incredibly high standard for game cinematics and part of matching that standard comes from Aaron Hammon — Who doesn’t love a great in game cinematic? Game cinematics are always a great way to insert story and immersion into a game. One of the people behind some of the greats out there is Aaron Hamman. He has the…

Advancing into the next obvious step of character concept, Florent creates awesome creatures that in some cases are ready to print or built to BE printed. — I am a sucker for some great creature design and Florent Desailly definitely offers the cream of the crop when it comes to that. They somehow manage to make Demogorgon make sense and that is a task in and of itself, all without sacrificing its absolute chaos born otherness. …