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Author: cparker

  • Adam Brockbank

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    I can tell you little about Adam Brockbank, except that he is a film industry concept and storyboard artist, and quite a good one. His site doesn’t include any biographical information, but does, fortunately, showcase a number of his terrific concept paintings and drawings for movies like Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,…

  • David Jon Kassan

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    Brooklyn based artist David Jon Kassan was born in Arkansas and studied in Philadelphia, New York and Florence, Italy. He has lectured, taught and given workshops at numerous universities and art centers, including the Rochester Institute of Technology, Western Illinois University, Syracuse University, National Academy School of Fine Art, the University of Alabama, the National…

  • Richard Cowdrey

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    Richard Cowdrey is an Ohio based illustrator with a particular affinity for animals. He has illustrated numerous books for children and teens including the popular Bad Dog, Marley and its follow-up A Very Marley Christmas, as well as the NYT Bestselling series Guardians of Ga’hoole. In addition to owls and dogs, other animals feature prominently…

  • Richard Schmid

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    Richard Schmid, though a well known and well respected contemporary American painter, is perhaps even better known as a teacher, through his widely read book and, more recently, series of instructional videos. His web site doesn’t do much to change this, in that the images of his work, though presented well enough, are frustratingly small.…

  • Rudolph Zallinger

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    I’ve wanted to do a post on Rudolph Zallinger for some time, but I keep putting it off in the hope that more of his work will be posted on the web. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be happening. I may still be able to make some people who aren’t already familiar with him aware…

  • Chris Sprouse

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    Chris Sprouse is an American comics artist whose clean elegant drawing style lies somewhere between the open line styles of European comics and the more heavily rendered styles common in American mainstream comics. Sprouse is most noted for his work on Alan Moore’s Tom Strong, a comics series that combined some of the best elements…