Category: Illustration
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Toni DiTerlizzi
Like any artists, illustrators must choose where their work will “live” on the spectrum of styles and genres. Toni DiTerlizzi lives somewhere between adventure fantasy and children’s book whimsey, where dragons and fairies meet spiders and flies and giant pink rabbit-eared creatures appear in kids’ bedrooms. His work shows the influence of some of the…
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Crockett Johnson
When I was about 8 years old my parents made the mistake of giving me a wonderful book. It looked like an innocent enough childrens’ book. It had a brown cover and a drawing of a young boy, who, I would soon learn, was “Harold”, and he had a large purple crayon with which he…
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Aubrey Beardsley
For an artist intimately fascinated with line, Aubrey Beardsley walked many of them himself. He walked a line between sickness and health, suffering from tuberculosis as a child and facing repeated bouts of ill-health before succumbing to it at the age of 25. His ink drawings, illustrations and prints walked the line between drawing, design…
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Iain McCaig
The fantastic characters that populate modern fantasy and science fiction movies have to take their initial form in someone’s imagination, long before the casting director, costumers and actors bring them to the screen. Usually, they first come to life in the mind of a concept designer. The more fertile that designer’s imagination, the more striking…
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Travis Charest
Over years I’ve been enjoying comics I’ve noticed that many comic book artists get to a certain level of proficiency and “hold” there, evidently feeling that they have sufficient skills to turn out acceptable work on a continuing basis. I’ll certainly grant that drawing a 24-page comic book on a monthly schedule can be a…
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NFCTD (Caleb Johnston)
Any of you who are familiar with Dover Books, know what a great resource they can be of public domain images from previous centuries, particularly from the 19th century when thousands of engravings were published for novels, texts, catalogs and periodicals. Many artists have used the Dover collections of these images as reference. Other artists…