I love how Jeff Simpson uses his digital paintbrush. The magical filters render his characters almost underwater, amidst some form of luminescence, as if through glowing smoke or caught under ice. The tendrils of textured light obscure and add to the features of each creature and make them alluring and scary at the same time. I can’t quite get my head around them, but they certainly capture my imagination. Simpson is an illustrator, concept artist and colourist, and has worked on Assassins Creed and Snow White and the Huntsman.