Category: Illustration
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Simon Ng
Illustrator Simon Ng was born in Singapore, acquired his illustration degree from Otis College in Los Angeles, worked for publishing houses and a children’s magazine company in Hong Kong for several years, and is now back in Singapore, doing freelance illustration for a number of agencies. One of his projects was a series of three…
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Willy Pogany
William Andrew Pogany, called “Willy”, was a prolific Hungarian born illustrator, active around the turn of the last century, who illustrated over a hundred books. Most were children’s classics like Arabian Nights, and Mother Goose, even Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, but also included less common titles like the Bhagavad Gita and the Rubiat. Before coming…
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Scott McKowen
Well, my friends, here is yet another tantalizingly different artist about whom I could find very little information without having to dig. I first encountered Scott McKowen’s work in the form of his wonderful set of covers for the Marvel Comics limited series 1602 (in which Marvel superheroes are envisioned in that time period, and…
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Art Out Loud 5
Art Out Loud 5 is the latest in a series of in-person painting and illustration technique demos held at the Society of Illustrators in New York. The sessions have been arranged by Irene Gallo, Art Director at Tor/Forge Books and the author of The Art Department blog, and noted illustrator Daniel Dos Santos. These are…
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Gustaf Tenggren
Swedish illustrator Gustaf Adolf Tenggren had his roots (and judging from his illustrations, wonderfully gnarled and knotted roots they were) deeply into the rich soil of Scandinavian myth, and the fertile influence of other great illustrators, most notably the terrific and underappreciated John Bauer, who Teggren succeeded as the primary illustrator for Bland Tomtar och…
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J.J. Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gèrard)
How cool would it be if we could actually see the whole intricate pattern of the influences of one artist on another that make up the brilliant, if ragged, cloth of art history. The best any one individual can hope for is glimmers and flashes of interconnectedness where the pattern reveals a small portion of…