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Month: December 2007

  • James Paick

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    James Paick is a concept artist for the gaming industry, working out of Los Angeles and is a graduate of Art Center College of Design. Beyond that I know little, as his blog and web site don’t offer much in the way of biographical info, client lists or project credits. I do know, however, that…

  • Ilya Repin

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    Ilya Repin was probably the foremost proponent of 19th Century realism in Russia. He studied at the Petersburgh Academy of Arts, and was by reports uncommonly talented from a young age. His image of Barge Haulers on the Volga (image above, with detail below, sometimes called “The Volga Boatmen”) was begun in his last year…

  • Chris Ware – The Acme Novelty Date Book Volume Two

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    Chris Ware, who I wrote about here and here, has just released The Acme Novelty Date Book, Volume Two: 1995-2000. For those of you who are only familiar with Ware’s precise, carefully controlled marvels of precision comic art, these two volumes are something else altogether. Basically they’re sketchbooks, not that different in essence from sketchbooks…

  • Andrew Loomis in Illustration Magazine

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    The new issue of Illustration magazine (#20) just came out, and the highlight is a beautiful and extensive (32 page) article on Andrew Loomis. Loomis was an influential editorial and advertising illustrator who is better known for his instructional books than his classic illustrations. Hopefully this article will go some way toward correcting this. Loomis’…

  • Gareth Hinds

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    I have to admit that I’m becoming a little tired of movie CGI, particularly when used with motion capture to portray fake humans; so I haven’t bothered to see the Robert Zemeckis Hollywoodization of the classic Northern European epic poem Beowulf. Apparently millions of people who just fine with movies full of fake actors, probably…

  • Harry Anderson

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    Harry Anderson was an illustrator active in the mid-20th Century, particularly during a period when the influences of modernism, editorial photography and changes in printing and reproduction techniques were encouraging many illustrators to forge new paths. While illustrators like Al Parker were redefining the way representational imagery was incorporated with design elements in magazine illustration,…