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  • Which Art Student Are You?

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    Cartoonist and illustrator Chuck Dillon, who teaches at the Hussian School of Art here in Philadelphia, has condensed some of his observations about students over his 10 years of teaching, and produced cartoon drawings/infographics of 20 student “types”. Inspired in part by Daniel Clowes Art School Confidentaial, a graphic story (made into a movie by…

  • DinoMixer: on creating art for an iPhone app

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    Regular readers will know that I rarely feature my own projects or work on Lines and Colors, but once in a while I’ll be indulgent (as on my birthday, which happens to be today), particularly if I have a project going that is of interest. I tend to be involved in many things — web…

  • Presidential Morph

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    “From Washington to Obama in Less than 4 Minutes” is the description line on this little amusement by “HerBunk”, the handle of a YouTube contributor who describes himself as “an old retired guy who likes to play with computers”. In it, he morphs the likenesses of all of the American presidents to date from one…

  • Watchmen as a Saturday Morning Cartoon

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    Anyone who is familiar with Watchmen, the darkly dystopian and very adult graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, or the much anticipated feature film adaptation that is being released today; and/or those familiar with 1980’s style Saturday morning superhero cartoons; will get a kick out of this perfect and spot on send-up by…

  • Andreas Aronsson

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    Whenever we look at a representational drawing or painting that appears to have depth or dimensionality, we are looking at a “projection”, a two-dimensional representation of a three dimensional object or scene. There are several types or projections, the most familiar are “perspective projection” (traditional linear perspective), in which lines drawn from the sides of…

  • Anamorphic Art

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    An anamorphosis is an image that is distorted in such a way that it only assumes the proportions of recognizable forms when viewed from a certain angle, or by reflection in a curved surface. The term comes from the Greek anamorphoun, to transform. Anamorphic images have a long history in art. The earliest examples in…