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Miguel Coimbra
Miguel Coimbra (born 9 December 1977) is a French freelance illustrator and graphic artist. Career Coimbra started drawing in his childhood. His special interest in games and the fantasy theme was aroused through the trading card game ''Magic: The Gathering''. Coimbra moved to Lyon in 2005 and worked as a graphic designer for the resident video game developer Eden Games on titles including ''Test Drive Unlimited'' and '' Alone in the Dark''. Since 2006, Coimbra is mainly active as an illustrator for board games and card games. His best-known works include the board games '' Small World'', ''Cyclades'', and '' 7 Wonders''. He has also done illustrations for trading card games, including the ''World of Warcraft Trading Card Game'' and ''Star Wars Galaxies''. In addition, Coimbra also illustrated several book covers and concept art for computer games. Illustrated games (selection) * 2006: ''BattleLore'' (Days of Wonder/Fantasy Flight Games), with others * 2007: ''Gravediggers'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy Art
Fantastic art is a broad and loosely defined art genre. It is not restricted to a specific school of artists, geographical location or historical period. It can be characterised by subject matter – which portrays non-realistic, mystical, mythical or folkloric subjects or events – and style, which is representational and naturalistic, rather than abstract – or in the case of magazine illustrations and similar, in the style of graphic novel art such as manga. Fantasy has been an integral part of art since its beginnings, but has been particularly important in mannerism, magic realist painting, romantic art, symbolism, surrealism and lowbrow. In French, the genre is called le fantastique, in English it is sometimes referred to as ''visionary art'', ''grotesque art'' or mannerist art. It has had a deep and circular interaction with fantasy literature. The subject matter of fantastic art may resemble the product of hallucinations, and Fantastic artist Richard Dadd spent mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
