Month: February 2008
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Gez Fry
Gez Fry is a half British, half Japanese illustrator who has lived in France and England and is currently based in Tokyo. I think his multi-cultural background shows up nicely in his work, which is an interesting synthesis of influences from illustration, comics and animation from several continents. Much of his work shows the influence…
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Sai Ping Lok
Sai Ping Lok tells us little on his painting blog simonlokart. I was initially confused, in fact, about what his name was. His paintings speak eloquently, however, about the southern California coast and countryside. With a little digging, I was able to determine that Sai Ping Lok is a background artist, visual development artist and…
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Jim Murray
I usually don’t write about artists whose online work is watermarked, as it often makes the display of the work pointless, but if the watermarking doesn’t deface the art too dramatically, and the artist is interesting enough, I’ll make exceptions. I’ve seen a lot of imaginative and well-painted illustration over time for the collectable card…
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Sanguine Drawing
Most artists who have done much life drawing are familiar with sanguine, usually as a color of conté crayon or colored pencil. Not that many, however, have drawn with real sanquine. Sanguine (Hematite) is a red-brown iron-oxide chalk, usually mined in Italy. It’s color, particularly when used on cream paper with touches of white, makes…
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Andy Paiko
Andy Paiko is a glass artist who creates glass sculpture as well as sculptural vesselware and traditional vesselware. I suppose “gothic” might be a term applied to his fascinating constructions of ornately crafted glass that often incorporate the skulls of small animals, spine-like constructions and other natural elements in ways that are slightly creepy but…
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100 Photoshop Tutorials
100 Photoshop Tutorials, subtitled “for creating beautiful art”, is a set of digital art how-to articles from numerous artists, collected and accessed through a large page of thumbnail images. Somewhat confusingly, though the majority of them seem to be for 2-D digital painting, the site on which they are hosted is called “3D Total“. The…