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Category: Illustration

  • Dan Seagrave

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    Born in the U.K. and now residing in Canada, Dan Seagrave began his career with an album cover for a local band. That expanded into a series of notable covers for other bands, though within a specific genre. Seagrave has continued to produce art for music groups, but his intricate, intensely detailed and highly imaginative…

  • Tyler Jacobson

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    California illustrator Tyler Jacobson recently graduated from Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and has embarked on a career as an illustrator, with an eye to working as a concept artist for the film and gaming industries. His clients include Wizards of the Coast, Dungeons and Dragons, NBC, Texas Monthly and Simon and Schuster.…

  • Dominick Domingo

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    Before graduating from the Art Center College of Design, Dominick Domingo interned at Disney Feature Animation, training in numerous roles in the animation process. After graduating, he worked with them as a concept artist and background artist, in both Los Angeles and Paris. His credits with Disney include Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback Of Notre…

  • Chris Sheban (update)

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    When I first wrote about Chicago based illustrator Chris Sheban back in 2007, he had little presence on the web except on his rep’s site and on Workbook. A friend of mine let me know that Sheban now has a website. Although there is still no bio, client list or information on technique (I’m not…

  • Everett Shinn

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    Pastel artist, oil painter, illustrator and artist/reporter Everett Shinn was the youngest member of the group of turn of the 20th Century American painters known as “Ashcan school”. Shinn was born in New Jersey and attended the Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia, a technical school with classes in mechanical drawing and architecture, where another artistically…

  • Virginia Frances Sterrett

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    In her unfortunately short life, Virginia Frances Sterrett fought to fulfill her desire to be an illustrator against the ravages of tuberculosis, which she contracted at the age of 19, the same year she received her first commission to illustrate a book, Old French Fairy Tales by Comtesse de Segur. Sterrett was born in Chicago…