We've seen lots of examples of how concept artists can find inspiration in the most unlikely of places. Sail Lin turns vegetables into weapons, and Max Froer combines insects with retro tech for his hybrid insect machine characters. The Chinese concept artist and illustrator Xie Xufeng works for major studios in the gaming industry. His inspiration for the personal retrofuturistic scene above came from a photograph of a grasshopper. Applying colour I start with flat base colours (local colours), initially avoiding complex colour mixing to maintain clean hue relationships.