Year: 2010
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Scott Kennedy
Scott Kennedy’s quiet, contemplative portraits, often of neighbors or family members, are done in the kind of traditional direct realism that has prompted the Art Renewal Center to endorse him as an “ARC Living Artist“, with a featured page on their site. He was also a finalist in their 2008 International ARC Salon. Kennedy received…
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Brian Boulton
There is a style of drawing, that you may see with some frequency on the web, that involves photorealistic rendering in pencil of images from photographs. It is often practiced by people with little or no professional training and, while I find that admirable, there is sometimes an accompanying lack of focus, finesse and artistic…
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Marcus Stone
Marcus Stone was an illustrator and painter who was active in the latter part of the 19th Century. Stone was trained by his father, Frank Stone, who had been a noted illustrator was a friend and companion of Charles Dickens (and antagonist of the Pre-Raphaelite painters). Marcus Stone was exhibiting at the Royal Academy at…
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Malcolm Sutherland
I love the immediacy and visual charm of location sketching, in which quickly realized sketches can often carry more feeling of place and time than elaborate drawings. Canadian illustrator and animator Malcolm Sutherland has managed to capture, and animate, some that feeling of informal charm and casual rendering, along with a strong sense of “being…
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Kent Barton
Illustrator Kent Barton works in scratchboard, linocut and woodcut, media that draw their lineage from graphic arts traditions that reach back into the early history of image making. He uses that feeling to advantage in his images, both in subjects for which it seems particularly appropriate to use classical graphic approach, and in modern subjects…
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Concept Art World
Concept Art World is a blog (or blog-themed magazine) devoted to film and gaming concept and production art and related disciplines. It features artists from around the world, and offers articles on concept art from particular projects and a listing of artists and studios, as well as resources like books and some how-to features. You…