Month: September 2005
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Steven Wiltshire
Steven Wiltshire was diagnosed as autistic at age 3, and at age 8 started to display an unusual talent for drawing. At 13 he was featured on a BBC program about autistic savants. In the years since then his work has been displayed in galleries and reproduced in several best-selling collections. The galleries here consist…
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Color Scheme Generator
Part of the WellStyled.com web design workshop, the functionality of this color scheme generator is primarily aimed at web designers, but this is fascinating and fun for anyone who likes to immerse themselves in color and color relationships. Click on the color wheel to choose a hue, choose a scheme (Contrast, Triad, Tetrad, etc) below…
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Adam Hughes
Comics artist Adam Hughes is justly noted for his ability to draw beautiful women, among other things. He has an ability to draw strong women characters with real faces, avoiding many of the common cliches of comic art portrayals of women. The galleries here consist largely of his cover art for Wonder Woman, Tomb Raider…
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Tim Warnock
Tim Warnock does matte painting and concept art for movies and games. His gallery includes samples of both. Warnock has set aside his traditional materials and now works digitally.
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The Drafting Pencil Museum
Attention art materials snobs and wooden pencil purists: if you like pencil drawing but you’ve never tried drawing with drafting pencil (commonly called a leadholder), you’re missing out. Not to be confused with a “mechanical pencil”, which dispenses a thin lead (.03 – .07mm) that doesn’t vary or require sharpening, a leadholder provides a beautiful,…
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Arthur Mount
Arthur Mount is a California illustrator who does crisp, elegant vector illustrations for a variety of clients, editorial and commercial. He has an eye for pulling the the important essentials out of a face or landscape. Unlike a lot of minimalist illustrators, he manages to leave enough elements of shadows, texture and suggestions of modeling…