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Category: Illustration

  • Harry Anderson

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    Harry Anderson was an illustrator active in the mid-20th Century, particularly during a period when the influences of modernism, editorial photography and changes in printing and reproduction techniques were encouraging many illustrators to forge new paths. While illustrators like Al Parker were redefining the way representational imagery was incorporated with design elements in magazine illustration,…

  • Jody Hewgill

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    Canadian illustrator Jody Hegwell’s illustrations seem almost constructed rather than simply painted, with subtle granular textures applied to curved sheets of delicately modeled color, which in turn are set into compositions in which the positive and negative spaces interlock like pieces of a puzzle, all set on a bedrock of solid cubist geometry. Her forceful…

  • Robert F. Walters

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    Scientific illustration is sometimes thought of as mundane, but there is an area where it crosses over into subject matter that is more dramatic, bizarre and wild than the most fevered dreams of Surrealist painters, fantasy illustrators or movie concept artists, namely paleo art. Dinosaurs can capture our imagination like few other aspects of the…

  • Jeffrey Smith

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    Jeffery Smith is a California illustrator who employs a palette of rich colors and deep chiaroscuro in the service of compositions that illustrate a broad range of subjects, from portraits, sports, romance and travel, to crime, mystery, conflict and war. Smith seems to be able to break down the objects, figures and settings in his…

  • Sketchtravel

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    I don’t know about you, but I can sometimes be a little intimidated by my own sketchbooks, specifically in cases where I’ve made some drawings that I feel were particularly successful, and become reluctant to add to them, either from worry about carrying a sketchbook with drawings I like in it around and losing it,…

  • Craig Elliott

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    (Image above © Disney) Craig Elliott is an illustrator, visual development artist and layout artist who works in the film industry. He has worked on numerous films for Disney Feature Animation, Dreamworks and other studios. His credits include titles like Bee Movie, Shark Tale, Flushed Away, Mulan, The Emporor’s New Groove and Treasure Planet. He…