• 31 Jul

    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.

     

     


  • 76 Comments »

     
    #1
    Neo
    July 31st, 2009 at 6:06 am

    Whaa, so amazing. Thanks for your post :x

     
     
    #2
    Hastimal Shah
    July 31st, 2009 at 7:48 am

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

     
     
    #3
    All for Design
    July 31st, 2009 at 8:23 am

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

     
     
    #4
    Nardyello
    July 31st, 2009 at 8:45 am

    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

     
     
    #5
    tasarhane
    July 31st, 2009 at 9:40 am

    these are great for sure..!

     
     
    #6
    Patrick Jasson
    July 31st, 2009 at 10:12 am

    Oh my god. Amazing Pictures oO

    Thanks for posting :)

     
     
    #7
    tnt80
    July 31st, 2009 at 10:25 am

    Really cool!
    Thanks for posting :D

     
     
    #8
    Luke Jones
    July 31st, 2009 at 10:43 am

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

     
     
    #9
    Martin Leblanc
    July 31st, 2009 at 10:43 am

    Great drawings.

     
     
    #10
    Listoric
    July 31st, 2009 at 10:58 am

    Wow, some of them are spectacular! O_O

     
     
    #11
    Manuel
    July 31st, 2009 at 11:09 am

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

     
     
    #12
    Simon Timmermans
    July 31st, 2009 at 12:30 pm

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

     
     
    #13
    Jonathan Woodward
    July 31st, 2009 at 2:14 pm

    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

     
     
    #14
    rafi
    July 31st, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    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.

     
     
    #15
    aledesign.it
    July 31st, 2009 at 2:35 pm

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

     
     
    #16
    MyPSDStudio
    July 31st, 2009 at 2:52 pm

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

     
     
    #17
    Thomas Maier
    July 31st, 2009 at 2:54 pm

    Phantastic!

     
     
    #18
    Tiagoos
    July 31st, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    Wouuu , very good Arts!

     
     
    #19
    Andy Sowards
    July 31st, 2009 at 4:18 pm

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

     
     
    #20
    mircindir
    July 31st, 2009 at 4:52 pm

    thank you very much..

     
     
    #21
    Josh
    July 31st, 2009 at 5:00 pm

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

     
     
    #22
    David Cain
    July 31st, 2009 at 5:27 pm

    These are incredible! Such imagination.

     
     
    #23
    Grend
    July 31st, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    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

     
     
    #24
    Tatiana
    July 31st, 2009 at 5:45 pm

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

     
     
    #25
    kevin
    July 31st, 2009 at 5:56 pm

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

     
     
    #26
    John G
    July 31st, 2009 at 6:22 pm

    Holy Crap! These are absolutely stunning!

     
     
    #27
    Daniel
    July 31st, 2009 at 7:02 pm

    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 ;)

     
     
    #28
    Adam
    July 31st, 2009 at 7:21 pm

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

     
     
    #29
    danny_garcia
    July 31st, 2009 at 8:51 pm

    AWESOME!!! 10+

     
     
    #30
    Brantley
    July 31st, 2009 at 9:28 pm

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

     
     
    #31
    Randall Gautreaux
    July 31st, 2009 at 9:34 pm

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

     
     
    #32
    Vivian H.
    July 31st, 2009 at 9:57 pm

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

     
     
    #33
    Scott
    July 31st, 2009 at 10:05 pm

    Beautiful.

     
     
    #34
    David Ingledow
    July 31st, 2009 at 10:38 pm

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

     
     
    #35
    Gustavs
    July 31st, 2009 at 10:58 pm

    Concept art is always so brilliant!

     
     
    #36
    joel k.
    July 31st, 2009 at 11:42 pm

    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

     
     
    #37
    Luis Lopez
    August 1st, 2009 at 10:06 am

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

     
     
    #38
    Alan Halsted
    August 1st, 2009 at 10:41 am

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

    Cheers

    Alan

     
     
    #39
    Greg
    August 1st, 2009 at 8:05 pm

    “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?

     
     
    #40
    robb
    August 1st, 2009 at 8:18 pm

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

     
     
    #41
    Ronnie
    August 2nd, 2009 at 11:14 am

    they’re so talented….

     
     
    #42
    HTH
    August 2nd, 2009 at 12:54 pm

    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.

     
     
    #43
    Wolverine
    August 2nd, 2009 at 3:01 pm

    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. :)

     
     
    #44
    Zach Krasner
    August 2nd, 2009 at 3:19 pm

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

     
     
    #45
    RoaldA
    August 2nd, 2009 at 3:53 pm

    Wow, cool! Especialy like nr 12!

     
     
    #46
    nu am
    August 2nd, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    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

     
     
    #47
    moonchild
    August 3rd, 2009 at 1:47 am
     
     
    #48
    Ravikumar V.
    August 3rd, 2009 at 8:11 am

    superb

     
     
    #49
    Alexander Bickov
    August 3rd, 2009 at 1:21 pm

    Great artists works. But I think the positive is missing

     
     
    #50
    Steph
    August 3rd, 2009 at 8:41 pm

    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!

     
     
    #51
    Asherd
    August 4th, 2009 at 3:34 am

    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.

     
     
    #52
    Nic Stage
    August 4th, 2009 at 5:09 am

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

     
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    #53
    Tobbi
    August 4th, 2009 at 12:16 pm

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

     
     
    #54
    Simon
    August 4th, 2009 at 3:31 pm

    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 :)

     
     
    #55
    Pam
    August 5th, 2009 at 6:10 am

    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.

     
     
    #56
    Gerald
    August 5th, 2009 at 10:05 am

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

     
     
    #57
    Multimedia Design
    August 5th, 2009 at 10:32 am

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

     
     
    #58
    Paul
    August 6th, 2009 at 3:00 pm

    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.

     
     
    #59
    james
    August 7th, 2009 at 3:40 am

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

     
     
    #60
    Louiza
    August 7th, 2009 at 6:29 am

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

     
     
    #61
    Kaplang
    August 7th, 2009 at 3:37 pm

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

     
     
    #62
    mini cigarette
    August 8th, 2009 at 4:47 am

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

     
     
    #63
    Ethan
    August 8th, 2009 at 6:40 am

    Brilliant.

     
     
    #64
    klau
    August 9th, 2009 at 3:35 am

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

     
     
    #65
    Some Guy
    August 9th, 2009 at 5:49 am

    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.

     
     
    #66
    parisindy
    August 9th, 2009 at 9:39 pm

    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/

     
     
    #67
    dave
    August 10th, 2009 at 2:14 am

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

     
     
    #68
    noah
    August 12th, 2009 at 11:10 pm

    alot of these are scenes from Halo 3

     
     
    #69
    Serissa
    August 14th, 2009 at 10:07 pm

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

     
     
    #70
    Stefan
    August 17th, 2009 at 4:56 am

    Truly amazing examples.

     
     
    #71
    Anthony Hortin
    September 13th, 2009 at 7:27 am

    Wow! Simply amazing illustrations. Thanks

     
     
    #72
    Adriano Vaz
    September 26th, 2009 at 3:40 am

    WOW! Really really really amazing arts!

     
     
    #73
    archelleto
    October 20th, 2009 at 2:26 am

    Impressive stuff … possibly all from the same artist?

     
     
    #74
    Silvia
    October 29th, 2009 at 2:03 am

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

     
     
    #75
    Web Design Maidstone Kent
    October 29th, 2009 at 3:09 am

    Great concept art

     
     
    #76
    louie
    November 20th, 2009 at 3:24 pm

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

     
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