Category: Tools and Techniques
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Chris Beatrice
Chris Beatrice worked his way from an illustrator for computer games to art director, creative director and then general manager for a computer gaming company. He moved on from there to found his own game company, Tilted Mill Entertainment, whose latest release is Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile. Beatrices’ formal art training was in…
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Kazu Kibuishi
When I started lines and colors last summer, Kazu Kibuishi’s beautiful web comic Copper was the topic of one of my first posts. Kibuishi is the creator of several other comics, including Daisy Cutter and Clive and Cabbage and is the driving force behind Flight, a terrific series of comics anthologies. He is currently working…
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Robert Beverly Hale
While preparing my post on Daniel E. Green I found an image of his incisive pastel portrait of Robert Beverly Hale (left). Hale was probably the foremost teacher of figure drawing and artistic anatomy in America. He was Curator of the American Painting and Sculpture Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Instructor of Drawing…
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Belinda Del Pesco
Belinda Del Pesco is a watercolorist from California who has a terrific blog, Belinda Del Pesco Fine Art, in which she not only posts her work, but describes her working methods along with images of the work in progress. She has the kind of approach to watercolor that I admire: clear and fresh color built…
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Olduvai George (Carl Buell)
Olduvai George is a blog title and online identity for natural history illustrator Carl Buell. (The name is a play on Olduvai Gorge, a large ravine in Tanzania where some of the earliest human remains have been found.) Buell has a passionate fascination with animals, living and extinct, although his work has him most often…
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Stephen Wiltshire – memory drawing
Here’s a question for those of you who draw from life: How often and how long do you look at your subject when drawing? Do you look up at the model or scene frequently, grabbing a fresh impression for each tiny bit of drawing, or do you take in as much as you can in…