Sam carr

Alan Wen speaks to three concept artists about the varied and iterative processes that make up one of the most misunderstood crafts in the game industry

Setting the stage Tanya Combrinck discovers how artists build tone and weave emotion into narratives

Dream space The comic artist and illustrator tells us how he planned out a studio for all occasions

Dark matter Fantasy novel Cotswold Mist weaves myths, ghosts and beasts into the heart of the English countryside’s heritage sites

Artist and printmaker Tom Frost swapped the bustle of Bristol for the calm of Carmarthenshire, finding creative clarity on the Welsh coastline

Creation and destruction, death and rebirth: Anselm Kiefer at eighty