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Month: January 2010

  • Parkour Motion Reel

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    This is an amusing little animation that was made as a course assignment by a design degree student in Singapore, who goes by the handle “saggyarmpit” on Vimeo. She points out that it was done fairly quickly, the drawings illustrated with technical pen and rough around the edges, and expresses surprise at the degree of…

  • Jules Breton

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    Jules Breton, whose full name is Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (what, no hyphens?), was one of the most famous and in demand academic painters of the 19th Century. He fell into disregard and semi-obscurity in the 20th Century, suffering particularly at the pens of Modernist critics who deemed him one of the terrible academic…

  • Your First Print: a introduction to Japanese Woodblock Printmaking

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    Your First Print is a rich media eBook by David Bull. Bull is an English born Canadian printmaker, now living in working in Japan, who has an extraordinary devotion to the art and craft of Japanese woodblock printing. That devotion is evident not only in his own work, but in his study of the art,…

  • Jason Caffoe

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    Freelance illustrator and concept artist Jason Caffoe works on a number of projects for which he can’t show or talk about his recent work, but his blog does have some work from older projects, along with engaging images from personal projects. There is one current project that he can discuss, his contributions as colorist, background…

  • Stephen Bissette

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    Stephen Bissette is an American comics artist known for his drawings of monsters and dinosaurs and his work on horror comics titles, in particular for several award winning series of DC Comic’s Swamp Thing with writer Alan Moore. The home page of Bissette’s site serves as a blog, though there is also a specific blog…

  • Gwenn Seemel

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    Gwenn Seemel is an Oregon based portrait artist with an unusual technique. her colorful portrait images are built up from a series of cross hatch strokes in acrylic, a process she developed from an interest in printmaking. As you can see from the demo on this page, she starts with areas of color shapes, often…