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Category: Illustration

  • Sam Wolfe Connelly

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    Sam Wolfe Connelly is a young illustrator based in Virginia, who studied at the Savanah College of Art and Design (or SCAD as it’s colloquially known). His work has been shown in the Society of Illustrators 2010 Student Show, Creative Quarterly, the 2009 SCADDY’s and on NewYorkTimes.com. Connelly’s work, which is frequently a mix of…

  • Nuthin’ But Mech

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    Nothin’ But Mech is a group blog started by concept artist Lorin Wood and concept designer Scott Kester to indulge in their fascination with robots in all their wonderful widgety variety of shapes forms and functions. They invited a number of their colleagues in the film and gaming industry to participate, and the result is…

  • Noli Novak

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    In drawing, particularly pen and ink drawing, stipple refers to the painstaking technique of creating tones by laying down areas of dots, the density of which creates areas of varying tone. It’s almost a handmade analog to the pre-printing screening of photographs, though the technique long preceded photography. Stipple was important to classic illustrators, such…

  • Vintage National Parks Posters

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    National Geographic has posted a selection of WPA sponsored Great Depression era posters created as promotions for the nation’s national parks. There are no artist credits, and the selection is small, but the posters are graphically beautiful. You can see more of these, though reproduced much smaller, on the Ranger Doug’s site, where they are…

  • Scott M. Fischer

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    Massachusetts based fantasy artist Scott Fisher counts among his clients Simon and Schuster, Warner Brothers. Tor Books, Lucas Film Harcourt and Wizards of the Coast. For the latter he has done a number of illustrations for their iconic Magic: The Gathering game, for which his work has a pleasantly different look than many of his…

  • Threadless T-shirt designs, sketch to print

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    Threadless is an online T-shirt store in which designs are solicited form the community and put up for popular vote. A few of the highest rated designs are then selected by the company for sale and the designers are paid a set fee. The designs are usually gently humorous, wry or clever in some way.…