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Month: January 2010

  • This Is Where We Live

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    This Is Where We Live is a short stop-motion animation by Apt Studio and Asylum Films. It is a promo for 4th Estate Publishers, and the “where” it refers to is the world of books. The designers and animators have taken a literal take on the phrase and created a world made, literally, from books.…

  • Ericka Lugo

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    Ericka Lugo is an illustrator based in Puerto Rico. Beyond that, I know little as her web presence doesn’t include much in the way of bio or a published credits list. Her illustrations, done digitally or in ink and gouache, have a whimsical stylized feeling and are often punctuated with passages of bright red. I…

  • Erik Tiemens (update)

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    I’ve written previously about Erik Tiemens, and his blog Virtual Gouache Land. Tiemens has recently redone his web site at watersketch.com with an emphasis on his gouache and watercolor paintings and sketches. There are also galleries of oil paintings, drawings and photography. Tiemens’ gouache paintings, though sometimes combined with watercolor or pastel, often take advantage…

  • William Smith

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    After graduating from Clemson University, William Smith started his career in advertising, eventually working with clients like Coke, Novartis, Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble. In 2008 he shifted into a new career as a concept artist in the gaming industry, and is now working with TimeGate Studios. His online portfolio is divided into three sections,…

  • Charlie Powell

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    Charlie Powell is an illustrator whose incisive, entertaining and deftly rendered likenesses of public figures have been featured in print and online publications like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Washington Post, Wired, Fortune, Playboy, Slate.com and Salon.com. He has a knack for capturing both a likeness and a characteristic pose…

  • Luc Desmarchelier

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    Luc Desmarchelier is an art dierctor at Sony Pictures Entertainment as well as a concept and visual development artist who has also done work for DreamWorks Animation and Amblimation/Universal Studios. Desmarchelier maintains two blogs, Ushusia, which showcases his professional work, and harmattan, which is devoted to his personal projects, paintings and sketches. He doesn’t include…