Year: 2010
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Black & White ImageS: The Fifth Special Collection
We are jaded by an abundance of color images. Dazzled, distracted and spoiled by color’s overt and often brash appeal, we can easily lose sight of the sublime pleasures to be had in the appreciation of black and white artwork. There is a visual charm and magic to black and white images that is difficult…
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Eric Joyner
Eric Joyner has a seemingly endless fascination with robots; not just any robots, mind you, specifically those wonderfully bizarre tin robots from the 1950’s, largely made in Japan and often constructed in inexplicable configurations; oh, and doughnuts, lots of doughnuts. Joyner was an illustrator with clients like Random House, McGraw-Hill, Levi’s, Sprint, Hasbro Warner Brothers…
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Directory of Figure Drawing Sessions
One of the best decisions I ever made as an artist after I got out of art school was to return to drawing the figure from life in regular sessions. Few practices are as challenging or rewarding for an artist as drawing the human form. The great traditions of Western art are founded on it…
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Tadahiro Uesugi (update)
The good news is that since I last wrote about the wonderfully expressive and brilliantly realized illustrations of Tadahiro Uesugi back in 2005, many more examples of his work have been added to his web site. The bad news is that the site is still in frames and as awkward as ever to navigate. The…
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NJCox
A simultaneous fascination with detail and uncluttered open spaces led to an unusual combination of the two for Nigel (NJ) Cox, an Irish born artist now living and working in London. Cox calls his stye Photorealistic Minimalism, and gives a description here of its inception and of the original work that started him on this…
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Jeremy Enecio
Born in the Philippines, Jeremy Enecio came to the U.S. when he was four, grew up in Maryland and studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He later attended the Illustration Academy program in Florida on a full scholarship from the Society of Illustrators. He currently works as a concept artist at Big Huge…