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Category: Illustration

  • Brom

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    Brom started his career creating commercial illustration for clients like Coke, IBM and CNN. He was soon seduced the dark side (of illustration, that is) and shifted into working full time for TSR, creating wonderfully dark and twisted fantasy illustrations for TSR’s publications (image above). He eventually went freelance again and has continued to do…

  • 100 Years of Illustration and Design (Paul Giambarba)

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    While we’re on the delicious subject of the great American illustrators (see my previous post about the Kelly Collection of American Illustration, below), allow me to recommend another superb blog. 100 Years of Illustration and Design is a cornucopia of rich, detailed posts about a long roster of great illustrators. You’ll find fascinating and profusely…

  • Stories To Tell: Masterworks from The Kelly Collection of American Illustration (at the Dahesh Museum)

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    I’ve had this exhibition listed in the Exhibitions list on the lines and colors sidebar for months now, and I’ve been looking forward to it for just as long. I was hoping to have a personal report for you by this time, but my schedule just isn’t letting me get to NY (or anywhere else)…

  • Drawn!

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    I’m sure many of you are familiar with Drawn!, but if not, it’s a blog that would be of interest to almost anyone who reads lines and colors. Although it bills itself as “The Illustration blog”, Drawn! actually covers a wide range of visual arts, including many of the categories covered by lines and colors:…

  • Collected Tears of the Weeping Nivbed (Justin Cherry)

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    I’ll start out by saying that I don’t know much about Justin Cherry. I know that he does terrific images, sometimes in comics outline style and sometimes painted in both traditional and digital media. I know that he is mentioned often (but briefly) on CGI sites, and at one time, he worked at Troika Games.…

  • Michael J. Deas

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    You’ve probably seen Michael Deas’ work without realizing it. In addition to his revitalization of the Columbia Pictures logo (above) Deas created the illustrations for some the most popular commemorative stamps ever released by the U.S. Postal service (James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn and others). His beautifully realized illustrations have been on the…