Category: Illustration
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Howard Pyle and the American Renaissance
In 1876 the Centennial Exposition (officially the “International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures and Products of the Soil and Mine”) was held here in Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence had been signed 100 years earlier. It was the first major World’s Fair to be held in the United States and served as announcement of the…
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the asia drawing portal
This is a tremendously rich source of articles and links to artists either working in Asia or of Asian descent living elsewhere. Though the emphasis is a bit more focused on contemporary artists, the site is a bit like lines and colors in terms of the different genres covered: illustration, gallery art, comics, concept art…
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Chris Sheban
OK, admittedly I’m a sucker for the kind of parody/homage to Vermeer seen in children’s book illustrator Chris Sheban’s take on Vermeer’s “Young Woman with a Water Pitcher“, hanging on a kid’s bedroom wall in the illustration above. Add in my affection for paleo art and dinosaurs in general (I want one of theose brachiosaurus…
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Coles Phillips
Just as there was a “Gibson Girl” in the 1890’s, in which the illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson came to be the personification of the ideal of a modern woman, so, in the early part of the 20th Century there was a “Phillips Girl”, a less well known, but also influential, ideal, portraying an on-the-go…
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Sterling Hundley
Sterling Hundley’s career as an illustrator got off to a quick start. While still a student at Virginia Commonwealth University, his work was chosen for the Society of Illustrators Student Scolarship Competition and the Society’s Illustrators Annual, and appeared in CMYK and Step by Step Magazine. He continues to garner awards and notice from the…
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Franklin Booth
Franklin Booth owed his amazing style of pen and ink drawing to ignorance. Booth was one of the greatest American illustrators and one of the absolute masters of pen and ink drawing. His style was the result of an isolated childhood on an Indiana farm and an innocent ignorance of the printing technology of his…