Category: Illustration

Irene Maria Jacobs is an illustrator from the Netherands who works in a variety of styles and mediums. She works in traditional media like paint and ink, as well as digital applications like Illustrator, Photoshop and Flash, frequently combining traditional and digital media in various stages of the same illustration. Her images sometimes take the…

Joseph Christian Leyendecker and his brother Frank X. Leyendecker, both among the absolute best illustrators ever, acquired some of their marvelous technique, finesse and painting skill in the course of classical art training in Europe. It was common in the late 19th Century for American artists to make the pilgrimage to Paris, the bright jewel…

Keith Thompson specializes in the grotesque. Whether desiccated, corpse like figures wandering across bleak landscapes; alarmingly emaciated creatures, teeth and fangs protruding from folds of hide; strangely organic robots, scratched and worn and suggestive of some sinister purpose; or bizarrely armored warriors of some arcane and forgotten civilization; his drawings and paintings seem to find…

Mary GrandPré is another of those illustrators whose work you have undoubtedly seen, even if you don’t know her name. GrandPré is best known as the illustrator for the U.S. editions of the Harry Potter books; which was just another assignment at first, as the books were not yet the phenomenon they would become; an…

Illustrator Boris Artzybasheff was born in the Ukraine, emigrated to the the U.S. and was active during the mid 20th Century. “Unique” may be a mild word to describe Artzybasheff’s approach to illustration. maybe if I add adjectives like “idiosyncratic”, “eccentric”, “bizarre” and “off the wall”, I can get a little closer; oh yes, and…