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Category: Illustration

  • Loïc Jouannigot

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    Loïc Jouannigot is a French illustrator with a charming children’s book style. The drawing style is both precise and loose, with a pleasantly sketchy quality. There is much attention to detail, and in some cases complex scenes and environments. Some are cut-aways, always a fun element, and many are populated with multiple animal characters. The…

  • Yu Qiuyang

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    Yu Qiuyang is a Chinese concept artist and illustrator, working digitally in Photoshop and Maya. Throughout the work I’ve seen there is an interesting interplay between light and dark themes, the latter often punctuated with a pool of lighter color. The subjects are primarily fantasy oriented, with a particular emphasis on what appears to be…

  • Anton Hartinger

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    19th century Austrian artist Anton Hartinger was noted for his still life paintings of fruit and flowers, and also was a botanical illustrator. He was responsible for a noted work titled Endlicher’s Paradisus Vindobonensis (Endlicher’s Viennese Paradise – link is to the book reproduction on plantillustrations.org), consisting of handpainted prints (“chromolithographs”) of his botanical illustrations…

  • Dugald Stewart Walker

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    Dugald Stewart Walker was one of the less well known American illustrators active in the early 20th century, basically in the latter part of the “Golden Age” of illustraion. His style was in keeping with other great illustrators of the time, notably, I think, those from Europe and the UK, like Edmund Dulac, Arthur Rackham,…

  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2026!

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    As I’ve done on every New Year’s Eve for the last 20 years(!), I’ll wish all Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with one of J. C. Leyendecker’s New Year’s covers for the Saturday Evening Post. In most of these, Leyendecker commented on events of the time, In this one he’s marking the…

  • Arthur Rackham illustration from The Night Before Christmas

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    The great “Golden Age” British illustrator Arthur Rackham created illustrations for an edition of Clement C. Moore’s beloved poem, The Night Before Christmas in 1915. There is a version of the edition on Wikisource. The illustrations range from brief ink sketches to more fully realized ink and watercolor paintings. In this one, we see The…