Category: Illustration
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Lok Jansen
Architecture is not only a fascinating art in itself, it’s a wonderful subject for other visual arts. In particular the architectural structure of cities, with all of the rich detail of interlocking geometry, makes for fascinating subjects. Lok Jansen is an architect and illustrator living in Tokyo. There is something about the amazing and unique…
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Michael Sowa
There is a world in which pigs dive into ponds like olympic athletes, play with balls of string like cats or wallow in your soup bowl, sheep work as accountants in the meadow, cats return to the door with their arms in a sling, dogs attend Victrola concerts, rabbits stand on their ears as street…
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Will Elder
It’s tempting to think of the comics art form as being most closely related to illustration. It is composed, after all, of drawn images. In reality it is much closer to its celluloid and electronic relatives, film and television. This is not because of the cross-over combination of animated cartoons, but because of the more…
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Howard Pyle
If we look at art over the course of time, we see an intricate web of the influences of one artist on another; influences that, in their crossings and re-crossings, eventually weave the tapestry of styles that we call art history. Howard Pyle, who is often rightly called “The Father of American Illustration”, is one…
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Illustration Friday
OK artists, illustrators cartoonists and painters, here’s where you stand: you have 6 more days to do “fat”. “Huh?” you say, staring at me in wide-eyed perplexity, “Say what?”. “Fat”, I say, “6 more days to do ‘fat’, or at least your interpretation of fat”. You stare at me again like I had spoken in…
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Roger Dean
Technology giveth and technology taketh away. A few years before our wonderful digital art tools came into use, illustration lost one of its more prominent vehicles as LP records were replaced by digital audio CDs, and the golden age of album cover art drew to a close. Yes, there is still nice work being done…