Inspiring Artists

Emrah Elmasli

Emrah is a Turkish concept artist from Izmir, who currently specializes in designing artwork and characters for video games. His clients include Wizards of the Coast, Lionhead Studios (more recently, designed concepts for Fable 3) and Eidos, to name a few famous game developers. During Uni, he discovered his talents with digital painting and illustration. Moving to Istanbul, he began designing concepts and storyboards, but with the gaming industry being small in Turkey, he moved to the UK. There he began working for some big clients, most notably for Lionhead Studios. He is currently employed as a full time concept artist for a video game company, and works freelance as well for other clients. His inspirations are similar to mine, coming from old Ottoman culture, sci fi and movies. Which makes Emrah Elmasli a good artist to refer to when looking for inspiration in my artwork.

A concept for Fable 3. These are 'dwellers' a group of gypsy/nomad type people. You can see here the resemblance he gives to the more Asian nomadic tribes.

More dwellers, really showing their gypsy like culture with the style of clothes.

 More sci fi related artwork. You can tell how he connects his inspiration between old and new by looking at the patterns around the figure.