Category: Illustration
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Draw yourself as a teen
Here’s a great idea, started as a simple notion by webcomics artist and blogger Dave Valeza, and now snowballed into something of an internet meme. The suggestion was simple: “challenge: draw yourself as a teen“, supplemented with “if you are still a teen, draw your future post-teen self”. Word has gotten around, as people have…
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Marguerite Sauvage
Marguerite Sauvage mines the crisp stylish line and color styles of the mid 20th Century, particularly the 1960’s, refines an hones them with a modern edge, and enlivens them with delicate applications of watercolor (or perhaps digital color meant to emulate watercolor). Her illustrations have appeared in Elle, Cosmopolitan and Glamour, as well as in…
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The Orphan Works Act of 2008
I was hoping to have a thoughtful and well-informed analysis of this situation for this post, but my personal schedule has made that difficult. I can only say that this is about two pieces of legislation coming up before the House and Senate here in the U.S. that may adversely affect visual artists here (and…
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John Cuneo
John Cuneo’s illustration clients include Esquire, Rolling Stone Mother Jones, Entertainment Weekly, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and quite possibly every other high-end glossy magazine on the planet. His wonderfully lose, sketch-like pen drawings, enlivened with deft applications of watercolor, are a visual treat. Cuneo is a wonderful caricaturist, capturing the essence of his subject…
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Barbara (Briggs) Bradley
Barbara Bradley’s brush was stilled on Friday when she was killed in a car accident at the age of 81. Bradley, née Barbara Briggs, was a member of the Charles E. Cooper Studio, a highly influential commercial art and illustration studio prominent in the mid 20th Century. The illustrators that Cooper attracted were among the…
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Mati Klarwein
In 1938, while researching derivatives of the fungus ergot in search of pharmaceutical applications in the treatment of migraines, Swiss scientist Dr. Albert Hoffman synthesized a chemical called lysergic acid diethylamide-25, which came into common parlance, and common use, in the early and mid-1960’s as LSD. It was a few years later before Hoffman, reportedly…