Archive for the 'Art & Illustration' Category

The Paycheck: How Much to Expect as an Entry-Level Game Artist

The Game Career Guide does it again! They’ve released all the data for their yearly salary survey for the past three years, all in one place.

Average Salaries for Artists and Animators with Three or Fewer Years Experience

Year   Average Salary
2005  $45,675
2006  $42,672
2007  $43,657

Full data available at their site »

100 Best Album Covers

Album Covers

I’m not sure I agree with them all, but PopPhoto.com has declared the 100 best album covers of all time.

100 Best Album Covers »

DArTT Student Gallery Updated

Student Gallery

New and astonishing artwork is submitted to our instructors every week by our extremely talented students. We thought it was time to update the gallery!

DArTT Student Gallery Updated »

Type Art

Tree Frog with Type

Zebra Art

Jarrell Goh does some amazing work creating art out of only type. Don’t believe me? Look closer. Much closer:

Zebra Type Art

Typography Art by Jarrell Goh » [via Why Me?]

Student Flickr Pool

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Don’t forget, our students are encouraged to post their work in the DArTT Flickr pool. Above image is a digital painting - NOT a photograph - by Tanya Brown, Video Game Art & Illustration student. (See Full-Size)

Doodle 4 Google

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Everybody is by now familiar with the fun doodles up on Google’s homepage whenever there’s an event worth commemorating. They’ve taken it further and asked students from K-12 in the US to design a logo around the theme, “What if…?”

The result is 40 finalists from ages 5 to 18 with a surprising amount of finesse and talent. One of my favourites above is by Texas student Victoria Flores, in the grade 10-12 category, but I recommend viewing every single one of the 40 finalist images.

Doodle 4 Google Regional Finalists »

My Dead Pony

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Lovely, sometimes disturbing illustration and artwork by Raphaël in Brussels, Belgium.

My Dead Pony –>

Stephanie Pui-Mun Law

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My favourite artist is working on a Tarot deck. I know what I’ll be buying myself for my birthday in 2009!

Stephanie Pui-Mun Law’s In-Progress Tarot deck –>

Design Influences - Illustration

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Marian Bantjes is a genius illustrator in Canada. This is a link to her “design influences” chart, which must be seen to be appreciated.

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