• 31 Jul

    50 Eye-Popping Examples of Concept Art

    Art, Illustrations, Inspiration

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    One of the most unique and common forms of art on the Internet these days is called concept art.

    Concept art is a form of illustration where the main goal is to convey a visual representation of a design, idea, and/or mood for use in movies, video games, animation, or comic books before it is put into the final product.

    The concept artist generates a visual design for something that doesn’t yet exist.

    Most of these pieces are created with Photoshop as well as using more traditional means such as oil paints, pencils and others. The two most common themes are science fiction and fantasy.

    In this post, we take a look at 50 great  examples of concept art that are sure to inspire you and let your imagination run wild.

     

    What do you think of concept art? Please share other examples with us in the comments section.

     

     

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    • http://vannyneo.com Neo

      Whaa, so amazing. Thanks for your post :x

    • Hastimal Shah

      Woh!!!! Its Amazing Art…
      Thanks for posting…
      :)

    • http://all-for-design.com All for Design

      Waho…
      Great works !
      Totally amazing paintings…Very talentuous artists !
      Thanks for sharing :)

    • http://creativefeed.nardyello.com Nardyello

      Talent comes in many forms. These are just a few fantastic examples. Magnificent, mystical and some of them even magical.

      Fantastic post. Each one tells a story. Would love to know what they represent.

      Thank you for sharing! :D

    • http://tasarhane.com tasarhane

      these are great for sure..!

    • Patrick Jasson

      Oh my god. Amazing Pictures oO

      Thanks for posting :)

    • http://stripes-design.pl tnt80

      Really cool!
      Thanks for posting :D

    • http://www.traxor-designs.com/ Luke Jones

      Thank you for the post, some people really are amazing artists, I’m somewhat envious that they’re so talented.

    • http://www.iconfinder.net Martin Leblanc

      Great drawings.

    • http://listoric.deviantart.com Listoric

      Wow, some of them are spectacular! O_O

    • http://limearts.de Manuel

      Amazing!
      Love this paintings. Is there any information about what these paintings were made for?

    • http://www.metatalk.be Simon Timmermans

      Amazing! How are these images produced? Combination of 3D, drawing and illustrator?

    • http://zero2illo.com/ Jonathan Woodward

      Great collection of awesome, inspiring work.

      Thanks for putting this together, I know how long these posts can take to construct – so it’s greatly appreciated

    • http://pixelactic.com/2009/07/25-superb-black-white-illustrations/ rafi

      Awesome composition, man. I love art coz i am an artist myself. and this form of art is just thundering. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work of collection.

    • http://www.aledesign.it aledesign.it

      Amazing..thi illustration are really fantastic! Great works… I don’t have words for explicate what I feel when I see that!!! ;)

    • http://www.mypsdstudio.com MyPSDStudio

      I don’t know what to say..
      but it’s really cool concept art collections..
      nice man, thumbs up

    • http://thomasmaier.me Thomas Maier

      Phantastic!

    • http://www.tiagoos.com Tiagoos

      Wouuu , very good Arts!

    • http://www.andysowards.com Andy Sowards

      These are fantastic! I was on the edge of my seat all the way down! Well done!

    • http://www.mircumut.com mircindir

      thank you very much..

    • http://joshboulton.co.uk Josh

      Very nice collection, perhaps adding a title and description to each one could have helped?

    • http://www.raptitude.com David Cain

      These are incredible! Such imagination.

    • http://pebkac-comic.com Grend

      Wow, very beautiful stuff.
      One of my favorite sources of great concept art is the Guild Wars series.
      For example: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=74118

    • http://www.craftyarrow.com/blog Tatiana

      Simply fantastic. They’ve already inspired me to write some great stories! Thanks for sharing… and a special thank you to the artists!

    • http://k-win.fr kevin

      wow ! kickass illustrations, awesome. Any link to a comic book made by an artist of them ?

    • http://www.fantasybookbanner.com John G

      Holy Crap! These are absolutely stunning!

    • http://fiddler.over-blog.de Daniel

      Totally stunning! I love it! Gave me a lot of inspiration for my blog-redesign (which hopefully won’t take too long). Keep on posting such amazing things, thank you ;)

    • http://www.crearecommunications.co.uk Adam

      Some awesome artwork there – I wish I could paint like that. Thanks a lot!

    • danny_garcia

      AWESOME!!! 10+

    • Brantley

      Wow!! This is some amazing work. My imagination was going crazy trying to think of the stories behind these. Thanks for the find.

    • Randall Gautreaux

      awesome artwork! out of the ballpark…….it just goes without saying very talented people do out standing work…….10+4

    • Vivian H.

      These are truly fantastic works of art. I was very moved by them…. brilliant!

    • Scott

      Beautiful.

    • http://www.ingledow.co.uk David Ingledow

      I love the New York city picture – these are great!

    • Gustavs

      Concept art is always so brilliant!

    • http://eveltdesign.com joel k.

      wow!
      the isolated waterfall castle is really good
      it gave me the chills. I think I’ll buy it
      just picture your self looking down that edge :( )
      thanks

    • http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com Luis Lopez

      Really Eye popping i can believed all this concepts, matte painting is an art and the concepts are going better every time.

    • http://www.ballisticpublishing.com Alan Halsted

      Great collection there! For more you should see the awesome books Ballistic Publishing put together… http://www.ballisticpublishing.com

      Cheers

      Alan

    • Greg

      “The most unique and common forms of art”

      Something is either unique, or it isn’t. Something can’t be the “most” unique. Also, how can something be unique and common?

    • http://robinferianto.com robb

      the pirate ship is totally awesome.
      and the rest, too.
      nice work of art.

    • http://www.pandawill.com Ronnie

      they’re so talented….

    • HTH

      Riveting! Each picture produces a mood, perhaps even fear. The general impression is gloom and in some cases decay, and if that is what the artist(s?) had in mind, then “Mission Accomplished”.
      The artists are to be congratulated.

    • Wolverine

      I seriously doubt these were created with Photoshop. Maybe CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator was used, but it’s more likely to be Corel Painter?

      Thanks for sharing the photos, though; they are excellent. :)

    • http://zachkrasner.com/ Zach Krasner

      Amazing! Incredible the amount of detail they’ve used…

    • RoaldA

      Wow, cool! Especialy like nr 12!

    • nu am

      Wow, you have discovered cgsociety! What does these have to do with webdesign anyway? Concept Art is not only for video games you should know, product design, architecture design, and quite a few others are using conceptual design… Others that i don’t see here

    • http://themoonchild.free.fr/ moonchild
    • http://www.ravi.uxdsign.com Ravikumar V.

      superb

    • http://www.bickov.com Alexander Bickov

      Great artists works. But I think the positive is missing

    • http://www.gotmedia.org/ Steph

      Wow, could you imagine living in the Waterfall Castle one? You’d go out to drink your morning coffee and… stare at the bottom of the ocean lol. Eek. Scary and awesome at the same time :)

      Thanks for sharing!

    • Asherd

      Some of the pieces reminds me of scenes from World of Warcraft :D

      I need to keep reminding myself that it does not take a couple of hours to create amazing intricate work of art – its amazing how people dream up these sort of landscapes.

    • Nic Stage

      awesome works. you should have provided credits for the artists and links to their websites. oh well; guess we’ll never know…

    • Nic Stage

      nevermind my last comment. i see the credits are on the images themselves. can anyone help me get my foot out of my mouth?

    • http://www.tobbis-blog.de Tobbi

      Really amazing collection. My favorite ist the “Waterfall Castle”

    • Simon

      Well, i dont know most of these, but to give some credit, the rooftops are
      taken from guild wars factions, copyright arenanet and ncsoft. guild wars also ahs other cool concept art, may be worth googling if you liked this :)

    • Pam

      Spectacularly done but why is almost all of it so grim? Does it have to reflect a dismal world to be considered art? It’s like theatre..it’s a lot easier to bring people to tears than to laughter, to despair than joy. Not discounting the talent here, just find it sad that everyone’s view of the world of the future seems to be so ..well, grim.

    • http://fusedthought.com Gerald

      Quite a collection here. I do agree that some looks like concept art from games but nevertheless they are very impressive.

    • http://www.nburmandesign.com Multimedia Design

      Stunning. Ok, that’s enough – everybody, back to work! These designs dont draw themselves you know!

    • Paul

      The composition on every piece is well thought out and executed extremely well. And, I agree with some of the other comments about the pieces being a bit dark or grim. I’m however, very impressed with the work and have forwarded the link to my daughter who attends a highly ranked art school for her thoughts.

    • james

      great post! these are some seriously talented artists, great imagination

    • http://www.letmekissyouonelasttime.blogspot.com Louiza

      omg. totally blown away. breathless. it’s like being transported to another world.

    • http://www.kaplang.com Kaplang

      wow these are amazing :) thanks for taking the time to show these on your blog.

    • http://ecigarettecigar.com/ecigshop/ mini cigarette

      Amazing art. Thanks for sharing these. It’s another world.

    • Ethan

      Brilliant.

    • http://klaupiu.wordpress.com klau

      Increíble!! Realmente me encantaron muchas de los diseños. :D

    • Some Guy

      I dunno if I would really consider those ‘concept’ art, but I guess the word concept is pretty open. I usually think of things like ‘concept vehicles’ or ideas of something that could be built. These are definitely cool looking, but I think they could be categorized differently.

    • parisindy

      great stuff thank you! but you are missing my favourite artists Chris McGrath and Debi Hammack

      http://www.christianmcgrath.com/

      and

      http://www.debihammack.com/

    • dave

      Now these are awesome.. too many good ones to (easily) choose a favorite from the list. Good compilation.

    • noah

      alot of these are scenes from Halo 3

    • Serissa

      beautiful artwork! I am amazed by the talent expressed in these beautiful concept pieces! keep up the beautiful work!

    • http://ducedo.com/ Stefan

      Truly amazing examples.

    • http://www.maddisondesigns.com Anthony Hortin

      Wow! Simply amazing illustrations. Thanks

    • http://blogmusicnonstop.blogspot.com/ Adriano Vaz

      WOW! Really really really amazing arts!

    • http://vzwpix.mobi archelleto

      Impressive stuff … possibly all from the same artist?

    • http://www.sisushka.sk Silvia

      Awesome examples!
      I love the artwork of Prasa, check him out :) http://prasa.deviantart.com/art/Forsaken-Fortress-Bridge-68982113

    • http://www.squiders.com Web Design Maidstone Kent

      Great concept art

    • http://louiethomas.co.uk/ louie

      wowawiwa! ISA VAAARY NAAAAAAAICE! id love to be that good :(

    • http://www.accappellacreative.co.uk Web Design Maidstone // Web Design Maidstone // Web Design Kent

      Great stuff, what a great mind to visualise something like this.

    • http://www.darioviegas.com raved

      Amazing work!!

    • http://www.rankingbyseo.com jyoti

      i really liked the 2nd last pic.

    • http://www.luxetranslation.com Translation LA

      impressive collection here. I am going to show this to my niece who goes to art school, and I believe she is studying concept art.

    • http://www.thamtuthanhlong.com tham tu thanh long

      It is so cool.
      Thank you very much,
      tham tu

    • http://p163.sg Angelee

      I bet all illustrations above are done by the hunky designers out there. Mostly shown were chaos and violence, but they’re all great work!

    • Fady

      This is the best type of art i have ever seen.

    • http://www.eago.co.uk eago

      Is any of this art from guild wars because that’s what it reminds me of.

    • http://www.designzillas.com Florida web design

      I can’t help but place a few images from this site here – they are wonderful. This one looks like something out of the Myst series. Last one

    • http://www.sunnygain.com bobby

      Good collection! Thanks for post and share. Also you can find cheap & quality goods on sunnygain.com. Thanks a lot.

    • http://topgreengadget.com topgreen

      wow, amazing picture… great share

    • http://www.becer.org becer

      Thanks for post and share.beautiful amazing pictures…

    • http://moobreak.blogspot.com adnan zulkarnain

      its very cool… amazing.. :D

    • http://charmingwp.com Ahmad

      Beautiful really charming Photos

    • http://www.notebook-laptop-accessories.com/ wendy2020

      Wow, those are some of the coolest photos I ever seen before!

    • nemo

      i dropped drawing because I thought there was no future in it. People said I was talented. I would like to know…

      Can you make good living with this type of drawings? To whom can they be sold ?

      I would appreciate a reply.

      Thanks in advance.

    • http://www.yiwuen.com/ yiwu

      amazing.it’s really arts.

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