Category: Drawing
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Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis
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…
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Trail of Steel – 1441 A.D., Marcos Mateu-Mestre
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…
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Lebbeus Woods
Lebbeus Woods was a visionary experimental architect whose designs, though they were seldom realized as actual structures, were tremendously influential on a generation of architects. His work took on concepts generally considered beyond the purview of architecture, exploring aspects of life and human society as well as the nature of space as defined by structures…
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Mathew Borrett
Mathew Borrett is a Canadian illustrator and visual effects artist who works with architectural illustration and also creates wild and sometimes elaborate imagined structures, some underground, some in cityscapes. His underground structures, with their maze-like and Escher influenced explorations of divided space, may have grown out of his more traditional architectural subjects, some of which…
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Whistler’s etchings (round 2)
Etchings, for me, have a kind of visual magic. There is something about the character of etched lines that is entrancing in a way quite distinct from other forms of drawing or graphics. I find it hard to isolate exactly why. Partly, I suppose, it’s the fine line available with an etching needle and carefully…
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The Colored Pencil Society of America
Like pastel, gouache and various drawing media, colored pencil is an artist’s medium that doesn’t receive the level of recognition its adherents would like. In part it shares the relative fragility and light exposure issues of works on paper (though materials are now being subjected to lightfastness tests), but largely colored pencil in particular suffers…