Category: Illustration
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Kevin Dart
When I profiled Chris Turnham and his fresh, lively illustrations and concept art back in January, he immediately wrote me and suggested I check out his friend and fellow illustrator Kevin Dart. I immediately checked out Dart’s snappy, wonderfully styled and colored illustrations, was immediately impressed and just as immediately got distracted and neglected to…
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Edmund Dulac
French illustrator Edmund Dulac began his career in the first decade of the 20th Century, just as the new technology of color separation was making the economical printing of color book plates possible. Dulac moved to London because of the publishing opportunities and was soon working as an illustrator in the new genre of illustrated…
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Jeff Jones
In a style that was markedly influenced by his contemporaries Roy Krenkel and Frank Frazetta, Jeff Jones created fantasy and science fiction illustration through the 1960’s and 70’s that was distinguished by strong use of color and texture and a wonderful sense of line within his painterly delineation of form. Jones was also a comics…
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Rembrandt 400
Now here’s an occasion worth celebrating. Today marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, the rootenist, tootenist, high-falootenist six-brush packing hombre ever to put lines and colors on a surface! Yow! Rembrandt, as you might guess, is one of my very favorite artists of any kind, any time, any which…
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Draw the Pirate
Avast, ye swabs! If ye’ve ever bin a’wonderin ’bout them “Draw the Pirate” ads fer them mail-orderin’ art schools that be testin’ yer art talent afore they’ll train yer carcass ter be an artist, here be an amusin’ little film fer yer by Jeff Hopkins. Yer never know, matey, yer might have talents! Then agin,…
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Boneville Reloaded
Jeff Smith’s Bone is one of the best examples of an independent comic breaking out into mainstream awareness on the basis of sheer quality. It’s a wonderfully drawn, imaginative, involving and beautifully realized comic series that has been collected in a series of books, translated into editions all over the world, printed in popular magazines,…