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Marcin Rubinkowski Makes Glorious Cyberpunk Concept Art

He is concept designer for Emmy multi-winner Love Death + Robots

Marcin Rubinkowski has a lot of skulls under his belt. He's been working in the movie and game industry for 12 years. Even if you put aside the fact that he did the concept art for the amazing Netflix series 'Love Death + Robots', that won multiple awards in several categories, still a lot remains.

Marcin drew concept art for several clients, some of them you might know: Bungie, Nintendo, Sega, Disney, Blur. Oh yeah, also a game called Destiny2. He also shared his wisdom of digital art in two books: Digital Painting Techniques: Volume 8, and Master the Art of Speed Painting: Digital Painting Techniques.


One great example of this artist's different style is a work called Cityscape Stylized. It's a stylized city and a river that crosses it, at first glance looks quite ordinary, you see some old-styled buildings and a bridge over the river. But after a closer look you notice it's not from our time. Some buildings on the far side have some strange and futuristics shapes. Then behind them there are some huge skyscrapers that you cannot see their top. Also the aircrafts on the skyline leave air-trail behind, you realize it’s not helicopters, and the shapes of the trails reveal they are also not planes.

Another aspect of Rubinkowski's works that I especially like is that you will not describe his works as dark, that is different from many other Cyberpunk themed artists I got to know. The views are of twilights, mornings, or midday, I mean it's not pitch black night full of blinding neon lights. Even the evil characters he makes, have something about them that makes you think “well he doesn’t look too evil”. You can see in the next images, that the interiors too have lots of light around:

If you want to see more of his works best place would be over his page on ARTSTATION and there's also a more offical version with selected works.