Month: February 2006
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Dave Stevens
Dave Stevens is a comics artist and illustrator who was most active in comics in the 80’s. He’s best known for his character The Rocketeer, which was made into a movie by Disney in 1991. He is also know for his pin-up type drawings of women, in a style that is sometimes called “good girl…
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Daniel E. Greene
Daniel E. Greene is widely recognized as one of the foremost portrait artists in the US. He has created portraits of numerous leaders in industry, government, academia, science, art, medicine and other areas, including Eleanor Roosevelt, astronaut Walter Schirra, author Ayn Rand and William Randolph Hearst. His work can be found in the collections of…
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Nick Pugh
Nick Pugh is a concept artist who has done character, vehicle, prop and effects designs for movies like The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Ring 2 and Serenity. He is lead concept artist for the effects studio Rythm and Hues which also does concept design for high-end theme parks. Pugh has a particular…
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Seth Fisher dies
Word went around the Net today that comic artist Seth Fisher has died. Even those of us who only knew him through his art will feel a loss. His work was incredibly imaginative and wonderfully fun. Here is a post I did about him back in November of last year. If you’re not familiar with…
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William Holman-Hunt
There are more dramatic images I could have chosen to represent Holman-Hunt, The Scapegoat, for example or The Hireling Shepherd, but this painting, Isabella and the Pot of Basil , has a personal connection for me because I’ve been visiting the original in the Delaware Art Museum since I was an adolescent. The painting was…
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Betty Edwards)
I have long been a firm believer in the idea that drawing is a skill that can be taught and not a magical gift bestowed on some individuals and denied others. We live in a culture (at least in America) that doesn’t value drawing as a worthwhile skill in the general sense. “Everybody can’t be…