Jean-Sébastien Rossbach

Jean-Sébastien Rossbach is a French freelance illustrator and concept artist based in Paris. He has done work in publishing, video games, board and role playing games, movies, the recording industry and advertising.

Rossbach gives his fantasy themed illustrations an extra element of decorative surface, incorporating patterns and deign elements into his images.

Very often he uses suggestions of patterns, with just enough detail for your eye to fill in a richer surface than he has actually rendered.

Rossback paints digitally in Painter and Photoshop, but uses the textural characteristics of the digital brushes to produce a painterly appearance, particularly in his loose, gestural backgrounds.

Rossback collaborated with illustrator Aleksi Briclot and writer Jean-Luc Istin on Merlin, an art book re-exploration of the Authurian Merlin legend,. The text is in French, but the book is largely illustrations.

official website: http://livingrope.free.fr/

other links: http://jsrossbach.blogspot.com/

http://livingrope.deviantart.com/gallery/

http://livingrope.cgsociety.org/gallery/