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Month: July 2008

  • The Prince Valiant Page – Gary Gianni

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    You will often hear the phrase “big shoes to fill” applied to the task of filling a role formerly held by someone whose accomplishments were significant and difficult to achieve. Illustrator and comics artist Gary Gianni put on some big shoes when he stepped into the role of illustrator for Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant newspaper…

  • Alfred J. Munnings

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    Sir Alfred James Munnings is best known as an equestrian artist. His beautifully rendered images of race horses bring high prices at auction and are the subject of popular posters and reproductions. In his early career, however, he was a plein air painter, whose subjects were as varied as the English countryside, and whose artistic…

  • Susan Rudat

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    Susan Rudat is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator based in Texas. On both her blog and her Flickr gallery she often posts drawings and sketches done in Molekine sketchbooks. Some of her drawings have a nicely graphic quality, as if designed to be woodcuts, with bold areas of black and carefully designed patterns of…

  • COLOURlovers

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    COLOURlovers is a community site devited to the exchange of colors and information about color and color trends. Aimed primarily at designers, the heart of the site is the posting of various color palettes created by members. Of more interest to artists, however, is the COLOURlovers Color + Design Blog, which I mentioned in my…

  • Creativity in Action

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    I enjoyed this short video essay by New York Times writer Roberta Smith, in which she muses about a painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York that she had passed often without really stopping to look. After realizing that what she thought was a picture of women socializing was actually a studio…

  • More Photoshop Tutorials

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    I wrote back in February about a listing of 100 Photoshop Tutorials, many of which applied to digital painting. Here are some more Photoshop tutorial resources I’ve come across. Though fewer of them are directly related to digital painting, they may be of interest to digital artists as well as those involved in design and…