Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Chet Phillips

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    Chet Phillips is an illustrator who does what he terms “Digital Scratchboard” in Corel Painter. His colorful images of animals (mostly domestic) and other subjects have an eye-pleasing freshness and energy.

  • Artistic Interpretation of Literary Figures

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    This is an individual’s collection of art, mostly by comics artists, on the theme of lilterary figures. It includes drawings and paintings that offer the artist’s interpretation of literary characters, as well as portraits of writers (and occasionally artists). (The image shown is a portrait of Dante Gabriel Rosetti by Barry Windsor Smith.) The site…

  • Phillip Straub

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    Phillip Straub is a concept artist and illustrator who works primarily digitally. His style ranges from dark and moody sci-fi game concept art to candy-colored children’s illustration.

  • Derek Thompson

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    Derek Thompson is a comics artist, storyboard artist and concept artist. Most of all though, he draws monsters. Big, little, scary, silly, weird and wild monsters. He even has a Monster of the Day feature and a Monster Vault. The site also features a gallery of his professional work and a Sketchbook that happens to…

  • Julian Beever

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    Julian Beever is probably the best known practitioner of “Pavement Art”, highly rendered drawings on city sidewalks. Some of them are portraits or reproductions of old masters, but the most interesting are anamorphic distortions that, when viewed from a certain angle, give a striking illusion of 3 dimensionality. The technique is reminiscent of the old…

  • Arthur Mount

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    Arthur Mount is a California illustrator who does crisp, elegant vector illustrations for a variety of clients, editorial and commercial. He has an eye for pulling the the important essentials out of a face or landscape. Unlike a lot of minimalist illustrators, he manages to leave enough elements of shadows, texture and suggestions of modeling…