Concept Artists
I really enjoy Shiu's landscape concept art. He works mainly in film, but his concept landscapes look very video game-esque. This one, for instance, reminds me of Legend of Dragoon for PS1.
Salström's forte is in character creation. I really like how different and creative he is with each character.
Baker is a concept artist for The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey. I love how his characters are both fantastical and grotesque.
Pontillas is a Disney-employed animator. My favorite thing about his concept characters is the animated style. I think it's adorable.
Like Emmanuel Shiu, I love Mosquera's environment concepts. The atmosphere of this one especially is amazing and almost magical.
Fine Artists
Ray Caesar
Caesar's digital paintings are like Neo-Romantic portraits. I love the soft airy backgrounds and a Alice-In-Wonderland-esque subject matter.
Chiu's work is both whimsical and maybe a bit creepy. He bounces back and forth between the two, and I'm a sucker for creepy.
Siqueira's work is really commercial and pop-arty, which I like. I think his work would be easy to sell to the masses (and it probably is).
Oliver's digital paintings are so hyper-realistic they look like photographs to me. I love how she purposely keeps brush strokes visible to remind you that this is a painting and not a photo.
Linda Bergkvist
Bergkvist's work is grotesquely beautiful. I absolutely love it. Also, BOOBIES.
Now I will take an artist from each category and compare them.
Emmanuel Shiu first started out as a 3D artist and first became a concept artist when working on the PS2 game Rise To Honor. He was not experienced as a concept artist, but was soon hired to design the entire underground world for the movie Hellboy. I like that he started out as a video game concept artist, because it really shows in his work.
Linda Bergkvist has a lot of controversy to her name. Upon further research, it appears that she painted over copyrighted photos that did not belong to her. In any case, her work (though created through cheating) is beautiful and magical. Her mystical portraitures were even going to be made into a card game before the reveal of her breach of copyright broke out.
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