Lines and Colors art blog

Month: December 2005

  • Stephen Hickman

    Many fantasy and science fiction artists create images of other worlds and other times. Few can imbue them with the feeling of cultured beauty that Stephen Hickman paints into his work. They are strange worlds, yes, but worlds where the inhabitants have gone to great lengths to beautify parts of their environment. This is an…

  • Winsor McCay

    I must have been a good boy this year, because Santa brought me a very nice treat indeed: a copy of Little Nemo in Slumberland – So many Splendid Sundays. This is a wonderful collection of 100 examples of one of the most beautiful comics ever created. There are other collections of Little Nemo pages,…

  • Designers who blog

    Designers who blog is a fascinating blog by Catherine (cat) Morley that features, as you might expect, blogs by designers. As she points out, “Due to slop over in the industry, also included are illustrators, photographers, those in advertising and marketing, etc.”, which makes a pretty interesting mix. DWB (or “Dweeb”) featured a post about…

  • Robert Liberace

    Robert Liberace’s drawings show his devotion to the study of anatomy and his enthusiasm for Renaisance art. He starts his drawings by creating a middle ground with a watercolor wash. He works the masses of the figure with Conte crayons and the details with terra cotta or charcoal pencils. He pulls the highlights by erasing…

  • Marc Gabbana

    Concept artist and illustrator Marc Gabbana has worked on films like Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, Hellboy, 8 Mile, War of the Worlds and The Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions. He has also done cover illustration for Image Comics and Dark Horse Comics, among others. Gabbana’s paintings utilize intense color…

  • Wally Wood

    This is kind of a special post for me so I may ramble on a bit. Wally Wood’s dazzling, lurid, bizarre, and wonderful comic art is what made me want to draw comics. When I was 10 or so, I came across some paperback reprints of the E.C. Mad comics from the 1950’s. These irreverent,…