Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Comics

  • Adam Hughes

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    Comics artist Adam Hughes is justly noted for his ability to draw beautiful women, among other things. He has an ability to draw strong women characters with real faces, avoiding many of the common cliches of comic art portrayals of women. The galleries here consist largely of his cover art for Wonder Woman, Tomb Raider…

  • Mike Weiringo

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    Mike Wieringo is a comic book artist most familiar for his work on Tellos and his well received run on Fantastic Four. His drawings have an easy confidence and playfullness of line that make them particularly appealing as pencil drawings. The site gallery has lots of his pencils, unfortunately reproduced kind of small. Fortunately, Mike…

  • SketchCrawl

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    He liked the experience so much he repeated it and collected the drawings as a book. He then expanded the idea to organized “Worldwide SketchCrawls”, inviting other artists to join in on a particular day and “sketch till you crawl”. He created a site devoted to the SketchCrawls that features bulletin boards for discussing the…

  • Michel Gagné

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    Michel Gagne has been a concept artist for films like “The Iron Giant” and the “Star Wars: Clone Wars” animated series. He has also illustrated children’s books, written and drawn comics, done artwork in various mediums including sculpture, designed toys and created animated shorts in Flash. Best of all, though, he draws wonderfully twisted creatures.…

  • Flesk Publications

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    Flesk is a small publishing house that has issued wonderful collections of work from two of the best pen and ink illustrators in history: Joseph Clement Coll and Franklin Booth. Both are extraordinary in their own way. The site contains small galleries of both artists’ work. The work is reproduced at a smaller size than…

  • copper

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    Kazu Kibuishi’s charming, wistful, and deceptively simple series of single page web comics. A boy an his (talking) dog drift through various settings, real or imagined, while musing on a variety of thoughts. Sort of Calvin and Hobbes meet Little Nemo, with emphasis on the latter. The strips are beautifully drawn and colored. Read one…