Craig Mullins is an American digital painter born in 1964. A internationally renowned concept artist, he has created art for books, video games, and film. He holds the title of being one of the first people to pioneer in the field of digital painting.
Born in California, he soon moved to Ohio after the age of Three. Mullins decided to move back to California near Los Angeles at the age of 18, and studied at Pitzer College in Claremont, California for 2 years. He then moved to the Art Center College of design to study project design.
Mullins then went to work as a transport designer at Ford, however after realizing his ideas were too extreme for the car industry, he went back to the Art Center to study illustration. Ever since his graduation in the 1990’s, he has worked on many projects such as: Matrix Revolutions, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Apollo 13, Halo: Combat Evolved, Fallout 3, and Mass Effect 2.
I also found an interesting quote of his which follows as:
“If you give ten people a pencil, you’d have ten very different creations. If you give the same ten people Photoshop, they would all look the same.”
Truly a powerhouse of a illustrator, if one were to take a quick glance at his paintings they could easily mistake them for real life photos.
Links:
http://www.goodbrush.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Mullins
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2466799
https://prabook.com/web/craig.mullins/2520976
April 7, 2019 at 12:08 pm
Alex,
Nice work on Brodner and Mullins! We met Steve Brodner when we were in New York with the students in 2014 and a more generous, interesting, and accommodating fellow you would not meet. His highly scathing political caricatures are some of the most powerful in American illustration. Good Job.
Jeff