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  • Jean-Baptiste Monge (update 2016)

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    Jean-Baptiste Monge is an illustrator, concept artist and character designer who I have featured previously on Lines and Colors. Monge combines superb draftsmanship, sensitive textural rendering, and a keen appreciation of color and value in his beautifully realized character creations — in particular his delightful gnomes, goblins, trolls and other “faerie folk”. Monge has an…

  • Jean-Baptiste Monge (update)

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    There is a sub-genre within Victorian painting, Golden Age illustration and contemporary fantasy art that is sometimes called faerie art or fairy art. It dwells on those imaginary miniature denizens of woodlands and fields who are often portrayed with pointed ears and gossamer wings. As much as I like some of the former two categories,…

  • Interview with Jean-Baptiste Monge

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    Jennifer Oliver was kind enough to write and let me know that she has posted a two-part interview with French fantasy illustrator and concept artist Jean-Baptiste Monge (who I profiled previously here) on her blog Academy of Art Character and Creature Design Notes. An Interview with Jean-Baptiste Monge, Part 1, and Part 2. The blog…

  • Jean-Baptiste Monge

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    Jean-Baptiste Monge is a French fantasy illustrator with a specialty in portraying the world of faeries, elves, goblins and related faerie folk. Monge’s detailed, beautifully rendered paintings have a textural quality and subdued color palette ideally suited to his portrayal of the denizens of the unseen world at our feet and the edges of our…

  • More artists’ studios

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    Like many artists, I enjoy seeing how other artists arrange and use their studios and work spaces. This is partly out of curiosity and partly with an eye to possibly useful ideas. Here are a couple more sources for photos of artists’ studios, in this case mostly illustrators, concept artists and comics artists. One is…

  • Ed Binkley (update)

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    It’s been a while since I checked in on fantasy and concept artist Ed Binkley, so I thought I’d pull back the deep forest undergrowth and see what’s happening under the leaves. The good news is that Binkley has posted additional images to his blog and his Holy-Men and Monsters gallery. Binkley’s wonderfully textural evocations…