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Category: Drawing

  • 25th World Wide SketchCrawl

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    While I’m on the subjects of sketching and anniversaries (see my previous post about Urban Sketchers), this Saturday marks the 5th anniversary of the World Wide SketchCrawl. SketchCrawl is a drawing marathon, originally conceived by Pixar storyboard artist Enrico Casarosa, and modeled as a pubcrawl, but with art materials. Artists gather in groups in various…

  • Urban Sketchers turns 1

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    Urban Sketchers, a terrific group sketchblog that I wrote about previously here and here, celebrated its first year anniversary this month. Urban Sketchers is devoted to drawing on location in urban environments, and it has come a long way in the year since it was established by Gabi Campanario, an illustrator and journalist based in…

  • Melissa B. Tubbs

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    Long time readers of Lines and Colors will know that I have a particular fondness for pen and ink drawing; a medium with a long history and many great practitioners but one that is assigned little glamour in this day of inexpensive color reproduction and computer imagery. Melissa B. Tubbs is an Alabama based artist…

  • Mattias Adolfsson

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    Mattias Adolfsson is a 3D artist living outside of Stockholm, Sweeden and currently working for gaming developer Simbin Development Studios. Having apparently put aside traditional drawing for a while, Adolfsson returned to regular drawing when he started his sketchblog Mattias Inks, in 2006. Since then he has populated it with a wonderful and fast growing…

  • Winona Nelson

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    Concept artist and illustrator Winona Nelson attended the Conceptart.org Atelier, and currently works for Planet Moon Studios. She previously worked for Flagship Studios in Hellgate London and has done work for Wizards of the Coast, Platinum Studios and others. In addition to her concept art, character and object design and illustration, Nelson also does some…

  • Drawing Day 2009

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    Drawing Day is an event initiated last year by Mick Gow, creator of the Rate My Drawings site, with the simple intention of drawing attention (if you’ll excuse the expression) to art by encouraging artists worldwide to create 1 million drawings on a single day, and coordinate, cooperate and share the experience through a variety…