Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Drawing

  • 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…

  • Urban Sketchers (update)

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    Urban Sketchers is a group blog that I first wrote about last November. Since then, hundreds of additional sketches have been added; and the blog’s layout has been updated, with a wider format and better organizatation (though I still wish they would somehow limit the Flickr slideshow widget at page bottom to a single page…

  • Tiona Marco

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    Minnesota artist Tiona Marco does landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, still life, wildlife and botanical drawings, all in her medium of choice, Crayola Crayons. That’s right, good ol’ big yellow box of ’em, wax in paper wrappers, wears down to a nub in your hands, drew with ’em when you were five, Crayola Crayons. She doesn’t add…