Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • invisibleman

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    invisibleman is a collaborative art blog where you’ll find a variety of art: drawings, paintings, sketches, cartoons, graphic design, illustrations and photographs, in a variety of media: pen, pencil, oil, watercolor, acrylic, print and digital, on a variety of surfaces: Moleskine pages, paper, canvas, posters, billboards, guitars and who knows what else, by a group…

  • Carl Critchlow

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    I’m always fascinated to watch to watch artists develop, particularly if their style changes or evolves over time. Carl Critchlow is UK comics artist and illustrator who has a painting style that has that kind of grungy, textured look preferred by many who like science fiction and fantasy art that leans toward the grotesque and…

  • Rhonda Nass

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    I came across Rhonda Nass on a site dedicated to botanical illustration and was struck by the textural qualities and dimensionality of her plant paintings. There isn’t any information about technique on her site, but I assume from the look of her paintings that she works from photographs in the studio, even utilizing the out…

  • Dave’s [comic book artist] Art Nouveau Collection

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    This is a collection of Art Nouveau style images by modern comic book artists. It’s part of a larger collection called Dave’s Gallery of Comic Art, which, in turn, is part of the Digital Medusa site. Digital Medusa contains other comic art collections, including a unique collection of Artistic Interpretations of Literary Figures by comic…

  • Frank Reilly

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    Some artists have as much, or more, impact as a teacher as they do as an artist. Although Frank Reilly had been fulfilling assignments as a professional illustrator even while he was still a pupil at the Art Students League, it was on his return there as a teacher that he would make his greatest…

  • Bob MacNeil

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    As mentioned last week on Drawn, Bob MacNeil is a multi-talented illustrator and concept artist with a wide variety of styles. An illustration of his was given a special spotlight in back of the new Flight 3 comics anthology, along with an inspirational story about dealing with tragedy and almost giving up on being an…