Over the years of working on ImagineFX, it’s exciting when you discover an artist who you can identify by their style alone – whether that’s the ultra-detailed fantasy portraits of Dave Rapoza, the gleaming surfaces in Serge Birault’s pin-up art, or the Old Master depth and weight of Craig Mullins. Pascal Blanche, with his distinct, colour-rich sci-fi scenes that seem to sit in their very own dimension, is one of those artists. His use of 3D modelling, his otherworld subject matter, and of course that striking use of colour, makes you feel that any piece that he posts online could only have been made by him.
CLASSIC SCI-FI ART
Of course, for the French-born artist who now resides in the digital art hub that is Montreal, Canada, he’d tell you he’s simply paying homage to a distant age of classic sci-fi art and its practitioners, and that initially, colour was the furthest thing from his mind.
“First, I was a real crappy painter,” he says. “I mean oils and acrylics… I never managed to understand how to deal with them, so it took me a long time to even think about colour in my work.” So where did all these reds and yellows, oranges and greens come from? “I guess I first observed it in artists like Frazetta, Otomo, Druillet, Moebius, Bisley… they all share the same colouring technics in a way: lots of contrasted colours and also very brightly coloured shadows.”
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Jan Wessbecher
Dominic Carter talks to the visual artist about creating his own comic and why sketchbooks are great for creative experiments
Kyounghwan Kim
The Korean character concept artist speaks to Dominic Carter about staying open to ideas and the value of drawing regularly
Slawek Fedorczuk
Dominic Carter talks to the concept artist about what keeps him motivated and the advantages of using physical sketchbooks.
Raquel M. Varela
Raquel is inspired by magic, fantasy and fairy tales. She loves designing female characters from distant worlds. \"My greatest reference is Loish's art, thanks to her I learned to draw the movement and fluidity I like to convey.\"
Estrela Lourenço
Estrela is a children's book author and illustrator. Her work is influenced by her background in character animation and storyboards for clients such as Cartoon Network, and she channels comic strips like Calvin and Hobbes.
Daria Widermanska
Daria, also known as Anako, has been drawing for as long as she can remember. Inspired by Disney and classic anime, she loves creating new characters and often finds that a single sketch can spark a unique story.
Allen Douglas
Allen has been painting professionally since 1994 for the publishing and gaming industries. Inspired by folklore, he distorts the size, relationships and environments of animals, and calls his paintings 'unusual wildlife'.
Thaddeus Robeck
Thaddeus has been drawing from the moment he could hold a pencil, but it was the 2020 lockdowns that gave him the time to focus on honing his skills.
DRAW FASCINATING SYMBOLIC ARTWORK
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First Impressions
The artist talks about his journey into the mythological world