Category: Tools and Techniques
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Paris Breakfasts (Carol Gillot)
Ah, Paris, city of light, city of culture, city of romance, city of… breakfasts? But, of course! Paris Breakfasts is a delightful blog by watercolorist Carol Gillot. Part deja-travelog, part sketch-blog, part paean to sweets and the sweet life, it meanders from food to travel to watercolor technique, often in the course of the same…
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Anthony J. Ryder
Tony Ryder is a contemporary realist who does still lifes and, in particular, figure and portrait paintings and drawings, with meticulous attention to detail and superb draftsmanship. His site offers galleries of both paintings and drawings, as well as information about his teaching schedule and workshops. Ryder is the author of the well-regarded book The…
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Frank Reilly
Some artists have as much, or more, impact as a teacher as they do as an artist. Although Frank Reilly had been fulfilling assignments as a professional illustrator even while he was still a pupil at the Art Students League, it was on his return there as a teacher that he would make his greatest…
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handprint : watercolors and
watercolor paintinghandprint is the personal site of Bruce MacEvoy. The home page displays an unlabeled group of eight graphic symbols reflecting entry points to the sections of the site, which are a rather bizarre amalgam of his personal interests, from literary experiments to essays on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, human evolution and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. One of…
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Coloring Comics: Steve Hamaker Colors Bone
In yesterday’s post on drawing comics I pointed to some thumbnail to ink sequences Jeff Smith has posted of his working process for Bone. Thanks to some recent posts by Steve Hamaker, who is coloring the new Bone color editions for Scholastic Press, we can follow the process to its next step. Hamaker’s first blog…
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Drawing Comics: Jeff Smith’s Bone
Jeff Smith’s Bone was one of the surprise comic delights of the ’90s and has continued to stand as one of the great single-artist comic series, running for over 50 issues from 1991 to 2004. Smith managed to create a style, with influences from Walt Kelly, Carl Barks and other classic comic artists, that is…