Category: Drawing
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Gilles Tréhin
Gilles Tréhin is an autistic savant who began to exhibit a seemingly innate talent for drawing at the age of 5, as well as unusual abilities for mental calculation and music. Autistic savants are people whose mental wiring seems to be a little different than the rest of us, resulting in limitations in certain areas…
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Michelangelo’s Drawings
This sheet of drawings, Michelangelo’s studies for the Libyan Sibyl, perhaps the most beautiful of the figures on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, has always impressed me as a self-contained master course in drawing. It’s loose, expressive and supremely confident. The draughtsmanship is precise and elegant. The figure is modeled in detail but there is still…
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Andrew Wyeth
I should start out by admitting that, although I really like some of his work, Andrew Wyeth is not one of my favorites. Partly it’s because I find much of his work cold, not in the sense of his frequent depiction of winter scenes, which I like, but in the lack of warmth that I…
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Drawn!
I’m sure many of you are familiar with Drawn!, but if not, it’s a blog that would be of interest to almost anyone who reads lines and colors. Although it bills itself as “The Illustration blog”, Drawn! actually covers a wide range of visual arts, including many of the categories covered by lines and colors:…
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Whistler’s Etchings
I’ll do a general post about James Abbot McNeill Whistler at some point, but for this one I want to concentrate on his etchings. In the general sense, suffice it to say that if your only familiarity with Whistler is his rather staid profile portrait of his mother sitting in a chair (Arrangement in Grey…
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Kazu Kibuishi
When I started lines and colors last summer, Kazu Kibuishi’s beautiful web comic Copper was the topic of one of my first posts. Kibuishi is the creator of several other comics, including Daisy Cutter and Clive and Cabbage and is the driving force behind Flight, a terrific series of comics anthologies. He is currently working…