Author: cparker
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Sim-r (Simon Rodgers) (update)
When I first wrote about Simon Rodgers about a year ago, I pointed out that I knew almost noting about him, except that he is a concept artist working in the film industry, who likes to work and sketch digitally. His eerie and dramatic landscapes, imaginative environments, mysterious caverns and enigmatic structures are rendered with…
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Jeffrey Smith
Jeffery Smith is a California illustrator who employs a palette of rich colors and deep chiaroscuro in the service of compositions that illustrate a broad range of subjects, from portraits, sports, romance and travel, to crime, mystery, conflict and war. Smith seems to be able to break down the objects, figures and settings in his…
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Colors! and Inchworm: digital painting applications for Nintendo DS
Since I first was introduced to computer graphics back in 1994, I’ve wanted a digital sketchbook. My wife still kids me because that year, after I was introduced to digital art by working with Photoshop on a friend’s Mac, I took a Photoshop book to the beach with us and read it like a novel,…
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V Water animated ad
Ever since I first saw Chuck Jones’ wonderfully imaginative and brain-tinglingly loopy Warner Brother’s cartoon Duck Amuck as a kid, I’ve had a weakness for cartoons that break the fourth wall (i.e. the invisible barrier between audience and characters in the entertainment), particularly in the oblique way of having an animated protagonist encounter the animator…
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Gustave Moreau
Staring into the dark, bejeweled recesses of Gustave Moreau’s hallucinatory interpretations of a classical mythology that apparently came from some alternate dimension, it’s difficult to grasp the idea that, as respected professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he was an influential teacher of Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault and Pierre Bonnard, and hung out…
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Little Sammy Sneeze
It is sometimes pointed out that Americans have contributed two original art forms to the culture of the world, jazz and comic strips. Though both have precedents, they achieved the state for which they are identified here in the U.S. One of the earliest pioneers of the latter is still one of its all time…