Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • DrawerGeeks

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    Now here’s a great idea from a group of artists for an informal series of creative projects that also translates into a fun web site. I can’t sum it up any more succinctly than they do themselves in the first paragraph of their FAQ: “DrawerGeeks is a fun thing we do every other Friday, where…

  • Yuko Shimizu

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    OK, What do you get when you combine the colorful open-lined style of Ukiyo-e woodblock prints with ink outline and color styles from comic book art, fashion drawing , movie posters, surrealist drawings, pen and ink illustrators from the 30’s, pop art from the 60’s and modern mainstream illustration, throw them in the pop-culture blender,…

  • Glen Orbik

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    Somewhere there is a place where the dark corridors and smoke filled rooms of pulp noir crime fiction meet the cape filled skies of comic book super heroes. While there are a number of illustrators and comic book artists who regularly visit that intersection (Jim Steranko comes to mind), most are transients. Glen Orbik is…

  • Michael Phipps

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    I’m going to make an assumption about this artist, simply because I don’t know much about him, but I do know a couple of things. The assumption I’m making is that he is relatively young and just beginning his career. The reason I might assume this is because the list of credits on his web…

  • The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello

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    Silhouette animation is a form of cut-out animation. The latter is familiar as the style used to give that extra-cheezy feeling to South Park. If you were to take South Park style cut-outs and light them from behind, rather than the front, so that surface colors and textures were eliminated leaving only black silhouettes, you…

  • Roberto Parada

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    Roberto Parada is an American illustrator who specializes in editorial illustrations with portraits of rock music luninaries, sports stars, movie and TV personalities and political figures. At times his portrait images are quite straightforward, like his straight-on takes on John Stewart (above) or Michael Caine. Often, though, there is a nice twist or bit of…