Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Drawing

  • Proko drawing tutorials

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    Proko.com is a website maintained by artist and teacher Stan Prokopenko, in which he offers a number of free drawing tutorials as well as a full length portrait drawing instructional DVD that can be purchased through the site. The free tutorials are among the best I’ve seen on the web, and to date feature instruction…

  • Aelbert Cuyp

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    Though he painted other subjects, Aelbert Cuyp is best known as one of the premiere landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age. His scenes of ships on the waterways of his native Dordrecht are filled with shimmering light effects, illuminated sails and glowing clouds. Even his humble scenes of cows grazing are given a romantic…

  • Dorian Vallejo

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    Dorian Vallejo is a portrait painter based in New Jersey. Though he sometimes sets his portraits in the more traditional toned or textured plain background, he often creates a kind of portrait that I particularly enjoy, with the subjects in background settings that are in some way relevant to the their personality. In particular, his…

  • Fred Lynch

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    Fred Lynch is an illustrator and gallery artist based in Massachusetts who is also a Professor of Illustration at Montserrat College of Art and a member of the Illustration Faculty at Rhode Island School of Design. His illustration clients include Random House, Viking Penguin and the Atlantic Monthly, among others. You will find a selection…

  • Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis

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    I’ve written before about my admiration for the classic instructional books by the early to mid 20th century American illustrator Andrew Loomis. In particular I’ve enthusiastically reviewed two of the superb new editions from Titan Books of his too long out of print classics, Figure Drawing for All it’s Worth and Drawing the Head and…

  • Trail of Steel – 1441 A.D., Marcos Mateu-Mestre

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    The link between movies and comics is a strong one. Even without the obvious bridge of their wonderful merging in animation, they share numerous qualities. Both are visual storytelling mediums, and share a common concern with establishing shots, close-ups, framing a scene, conveying the spatial relationship of characters one to the other and other elements…