Another Prominent Concept Artist - Tim Warnock

While I tend to create art that focuses on particular characters and creatures like Dan Scott, I want to start making more realistic landscape pieces.  Another concept artist who does this with great style is Tim Warnock.  He works on movie mattes and storyboards/concepts and really knows how to create an entire environment within his work (not just focus on the person, or thing).  Here are some of his pieces, especially pay attention to the way he builds up his work with digital strokes, rather than smooth them out and hide them.

Concept Artist - Dan Scott

A modern concept artist that is very well established and highly regarded is Dan Scott.  He has done work for World of Warcraft, DC Comics, Star Wars, and Magic the Gathering ; he is at the pinnacle of the concept art industry and has created work for books, comics, and video games.  His realistic rendering of fantasy/non-real entities is something I am striving to achieve on my own.  The following are various images I found best represent his work:

Artist Research (cont'd.) - Hale Woodruff

The second of the pioneering African American artists who's style I enjoy is Hale Woodruff.  He, like Charles White, uses a very graphic and graphic novel-like style but his art doesn't read as flat or static.  Also his use of bright shapes of color, in the card players, to create form is done in a very stylized and with intentionality.

The first is called Mutiny Aboard the Amistad 1839 - 1939 and the second is the Card Players - 1930

Artist Research - Charles White

I found a couple interesting prominent and early African American artists that I find interesting in their artistic style and approach.

The first is Charles White - I can relate my fairly graphic work to his and try to emulate the way he uses very detailed graphics (almost comic-like) but blends them well and really develops dimensionality and shading.
I also enjoy his manipulation of size and scale, creating an emphasis on certain areas of each piece.

The first one is harvest talk (1953) and the second is titled the preacher (1940)

Finished Tribal Giraffe Concept