Month: January 2007
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Carson Van Osten’s Comic Strip Artist’s Kit
Most people think of comics as simply a series of illustrations, and of the skill involved as essentially one of drawing. What they don’t see is the art underneath, the art of visual storytelling, which in many ways is more important in comics than outright drawing skill. A person with good visual storytelling skills and…
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James Skvarch
I really enjoy etchings. Etching a subtle art that seldom receives the attention it deserves in this day of jaded, color drenched and video saturated vision. Etchings seem quiet, but within their subtlety they can be as dramatic as a painting, and there is something about the quality of etched lines that is unlike any…
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Mick McGinty
In my coverage of “painting a day” blogs, I’ve been remiss in not covering painters who are painting less frequently, but basically following the same paradigm — creating small paintings from life on a regular basis, posting them to a blog and offering them for sale through eBay or other means. A nice case in…
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Eric Grohe
In the image at top, the plants, low retaining walls, benches and sidewalk are real. Everything else, the stone structures with their carvings and decorative elements, the ironwork bridge and the entire city street and sky behind them, are an image painted on a flat wall. The decoration of walls with murals, both exterior and…
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Neil Campbell Ross
I came across Neil Campbell Ross as a member of Uli Meyer’s animation studio (see my recent post on Uli Meyer). Even among the other talented members of the studio, I was struck by Ross’s wonderfully drawn and designed concept illustrations. Ross is a concept and production artist, designer and art director. He has worked…
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Peter Ferguson
Peter Ferguson is a fascinating illustrator whose site contains a bounty of wonderful images, but very little biographical information. According to this article on Illustration Mundo, Ferguson’s clients include Business Week, Harper Collins, Penguin Books, The Los Angeles Times and Marvel Comics. He is represented by Three In A Box artist’s reps and you will…