Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Hey Oscar Wilde! It’s Clobberin’ Time!

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    It’s a common practice among contemporary comics artists to do commissioned sketches or even fully realized drawings for fans and collectors. Often collectors will commission drawings by a number of artists on a single theme, and create over time a collection of themed works by an extensive and diverse list of creators. Such is the…

  • Nate Wragg

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    I came across illustrator and animation concept artist Nate Wragg from his participation in the Terrible Yellow Eyes project, and was delighted with his work. Wragg is a member of Pixar Studios, and worked on the cartoon Pursuit. He also was an illustrator for the children’s book Too Many Cooks (Ratatouille), as well as being…

  • World War I Poster Archive in the Library of Congress

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    The venerable U.S. Library of Congress, that vast and vastly underestimated trove of knowledge and culture from the nation’s past, keeps moving more and more of its treasures out onto the web, which is a Good Thing for knowledge and culture lovers of all stripes. The Prints and Photographs Collection, among its other treasures, has…

  • Brynn Metheny – The Morae River

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    Brynn Metheny is a freelance illustrator based in Oakland, California who loves to draw imaginary creatures. Metheny has taken this fascination with made-up animals and extended it to the point of conjuring up an entire continent, Orcura, through which flows The Morae River. The river basin has a bestiary and a Classification of Species to…

  • Terrible Yellow Eyes

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    Terrible Yellow Eyes is a blog established by illustrator Cory Godbey to express his fascination and admiration for the work of Maurice Sendak, and in particular, his classic Where the Wild Things Are. The blog is a growing collection of artwork from a variety of artists, each expressing their own admiration for Sendak’s work with…

  • Maurice Sendak

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    Maurice Sendak has been a window dresser for F.A.O. Schwartz, an illustrator for All-American Comics, and, since 1951, the author and illustrator of some of the most well-known and influential books in children’s literature. A fair bit of attention is currently focused on Where the Wild Things Are, his award winning and controversial classic that…