Ghost Town Album Artist Imamachinist

Ghost Town 

Ghost Town is a band, I love their music but I also love their cover art for their albums. 

The Artist behind the album covers is Alister Dippner also known as imamachinist. 

I have Liked this band for so long and have admired the Album art. 

I love this kind of Art, there is bright colours but still with a dark twist which is a mind twister which is why I am so drawn to Alister's art. 

I couldn't find much out about Alister but i did find his email. I originally found out about this artist through a you tuber I watched, Ledamosterbunny she is no longer on you tube but I believe if my memory has me right Ghost Town used Leda for inspiration and she helped promote their work. 

 alister@thehizoku.com . 

His Facebook 

https://www.facebook.com/imamachinist/timeline

Mark Crilley

Mark Crilley 

Mark Crilley is a artist I  have been watching and following on You Tube for a long time now.  He has helped me as artists develop my skills and teach me tricks and learning curves about drawing and being a artist in the big wide world. 

Mark Crilley has taught me the process of creating a comic , and how its done in the industry. 

I think its great watching his videos on you tube , from the first time he started out on you tube and to know you cane really see that he has developed as a artist and shows you that if you put the effort in you can do it. I think Mark is a great role model to the artist side of the world.  

Mark has created his own comic called Brody's Ghost which I find so inspirational. 

He is manly Based om You tube doing tutorials on how to draw characters and manga and even real life objects he draws a big range of styles. 

https://www.youtube.com/user/markcrilley

This is Marks you tube, iIhighly recommended that you visit his page and watch his videos. 

As I was growing as an artist, Mark was a big part and how he helped me grow confidence I highly recommend him to anyone who want to go into art. 

Bioshock

Bioshock 

Bioshock is one of my favorite games for Xbox 360. I love the concept art for the game. 

Above there is a few images that are from the newer game Bioshock Infinite, the artists is Ben Lo. 

The art is truly memorizing and the art movement is very fluent which I like in art. 

Ben Lo has also done some fan art, hear is one of his piece which is a character  of ToToro which is a anime film from a company called Studio Ghibli. 

Tribe Nightguard is a character in Ben Lo Tribe World. He explains in his own blog what this characters role is in the game. 

I truly love his style of work and how the concept gets put together. 

He has a wide range of themes and characters he has designed and you can see that he can work in many different ways, I love how his work tells the story with needing words. 

http://benlo0.blogspot.co.uk/

Hear is Ben Lo blog 

This is one of his Fan Art pieces of Breaking Bad the TV series, I personally love this piece.
I love looking at fan art and how they make it more personal to them. 

Nintendo

 Nintendo

The Nintendo industry has been a big part of my life for many years , i have decided to have a research in how it started and who started the gaming industry. 

Through out the years Nintendo has created many games and consoles to entertain the world and they have successfully succeeded but how did they get so big ?.  

The color TV Game series was the first color console that you play at the comfort of your own home. The first game for this console was Light Tennis that has a similar lay out to Pong. This console soon got out faced due to the fact you could not play any other games than just the one.  

The next game that soon met the eye and became very popular world wide was Nintendo entertainment system. This became allot more popular rather than The color TV Game series.

My favorite Nintendo game has to be Zelda.
My favorite game has to be Twilight Princess the art work, and concept art for this game is to amazing for words. When I was looking into the game in more depth I found out that one of the concept artist is Yusuke Nakano.
Unfortunately there is not much about this artist that i could find. But the whole franchise of this game is truly amazing. The concept art is something that i highly admire.













This is one of the books that I have and I highly recommend it . It goes through the history of Zelda and the characters and how they are developed.

This is the kind of art work that highly adore.

As I was researching through the history of the game i found out that allot of inspiration came from mythology.
When you start looking in depth on the story line it can become rather hard to follow, Hyrule was formed many years ago through the works of the three Golden Goddesses: Din the goddess of the power.As you can see from the image shown below.

Peter popken

Peter Popken 

Is a film concept artist, i found him as i was researching film concept artist. I found out that he worked on Thor for marvel and many more films that are very well known. He has also worked for Disney , Paramount and warner Bros  and many more. He has also developed his carer by working for Sony Ps3 as a game concept artists. 

Peter was born in Germany and studied Graphic design. When Peter finished his education  he went in to story boarding in animation. and then moved to all different areas in the entertainment industry.

Peter explains what his role in the concept industry is to draw the story to real life and make it more visual. His focus is on storytelling and he sets the mood for the film and each sequence.

The difference on concept on film and game is film is shorter. Film can take 3 to 6 months and a game can take up to 6 years. He works on many different soft wares that's what brought my eye to his work, as I am trying the software my self. 

This kind of area of Industry is what i am interested in. 

I like concept art and I personally collect the books for film and games.

I like how this peice of work looks like a oil painting, this technique is created on Photoshop.

Karla Ortiz Concept Artists

Karla Ortiz 

Karla has worked in the entertainment industry for about 6 years , she has worked with Paragon Studios/Ncsoft, Ubisoft, Kabam, Industrial Light and magic.

She explains that she likes good music, good stories, good laughs and good food. 

This image was the first I found of her work and I soon fell in love. I love how dark her illustration are and you can see natural talent through out her work. 

 What i love the most about this piece of hers is how dark it is but still a bit of light. The characters and interesting and you instantly get caught up in what happens next or what is this illustration about. 

I found all her work on ...

  http://conceptartworld.com/

William Simpson

William Simpson 

I recently have been to event where I got to meet with William Simpson which was amazing.  

I found that he had allot to say about the industry that I am interested in going in to. 

He started of with drawing story boards then as he grew in the industry William went on to concept art for films and series. 

William started in the industry with the company called British comics which included the comics Warrior and 2000 AD.He has since illustrated comic books for such industry heavyweights as DC comics and marvel comics.

I am very interested in Williams work and found his talk fascinating and educational and feel so lucky that I got to meet him. 

What i like most about his work is that he still uses traditional methods but also modern methods. I really like his line work and you can see that he puts so much in his work which gives you so much inspiration. 

I find his illustrations do the story telling by them selves with out the text which is what i find so professional and amazingly interesting.
William explained that working in the idustry is not always easy and you have to work very hard and end up when starting out using your own pocket but not to be taken as a mug at the same time. 

Here is a Interveiw i found with William Simpson if you would like to read it.

http://www.makinggameofthrones.com/production-diary/2012/9/27/got-storyboard-artist-william-simpson-gives-a-glimpse-at-sea.html