Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Steve Rude

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    Many modern comic book artists pride themselves on throwing away what’s come before. A few, however, show their respect for tradition and display the influence of the great comics artists who showed us all how it’s done. Steve Rude is a comic book artist and illustrator who has reaped the benefit of respect for tradition.…

  • Ryan Terry’s Ry-guy.com

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    I’m not a fan of most “clever” web site interfaces because they usually sacrifice any shred of usability on the altar of coolness. Ryan Terry’s Ry-guy.com is so clever, however, that it becomes an entertainment in itself. This is one of the most fun Flash interfaces I’ve ever seen on the web. The site is…

  • Bill Hall

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    Bill Hall is a Texas illustrator who specializes in sports illustration. He works digitally in Corel Painter, using blurred brushstrokes and anime-like motion lines to convey movement.

  • Michael Whelan

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    Michael Whelan is one of the foremost fantasy and science fiction artists in the field. His superbly rendered illustrations convey a sense of classical realism and show beautiful control of atmospheric perspective.

  • Clay Bennett

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    Newspaper staff artists are the unsung heroes of illustration, usually in the shadows until they move to another position. Clay Bennett was a staff artist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Fayetteville (NC) Times before moving to The St. Petersburgh Times as an editorial cartoonist. He was fired from The St. Petersburgh Times (I always…

  • Alex Ross

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    Ask comics fans about Alex Ross and you’ll get mixed but strong opinions. Many think his highly rendered watercolor and gouache comic illustrations “inappropriate” for comics storytelling, others find his work exciting and beautiful. I fall into the latter camp and have a tremendous respect for his water media technique. I also have no problem…