Month: October 2005
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Michael Whelan
Michael Whelan is one of the foremost fantasy and science fiction artists in the field. His superbly rendered illustrations convey a sense of classical realism and show beautiful control of atmospheric perspective.
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Clay Bennett
Newspaper staff artists are the unsung heroes of illustration, usually in the shadows until they move to another position. Clay Bennett was a staff artist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Fayetteville (NC) Times before moving to The St. Petersburgh Times as an editorial cartoonist. He was fired from The St. Petersburgh Times (I always…
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Marshall Hopkins
Marshall Hopkins’ Lightning Studios is primarily a sketch blog in which the Brooklyn artist posts works in charcoal, pen, wash, graphite, watercolor and oil. Most of the pieces are for sale. Hopkins also does cartoons for The New Yorker. His website includes a selection of his cartoons and illustrations.
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Craig Mullins
Craig Mullins does concept art for hollywood movies and high-end games. He works digitally in a loose, painterly style that can be very powerful. This site has a large selection of his concept art images as well as sketches and some work in traditional media.
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Steve Mumford
Steven Mumford is a New York artist who has made several trips to Iraq during the war and recorded his observations in a series of remarkable pen, inkwash and watercolor drawings. The images range from intimate portraits of soldiers to battlefield scenes to pictures of the local citizens who were much less reluctant to pose…
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Alex Ross
Ask comics fans about Alex Ross and you’ll get mixed but strong opinions. Many think his highly rendered watercolor and gouache comic illustrations “inappropriate” for comics storytelling, others find his work exciting and beautiful. I fall into the latter camp and have a tremendous respect for his water media technique. I also have no problem…