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Category: Illustration

  • Short Trip, Alexander Perrin

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    Short Trip is a hand-drawn interactive animation by Alexander Perrin. The author calls it an “interactive illustration”, and the drawings are done in pencil. If you would like to be simply and delightfully amused for 5 or 10 minutes, turn your sound on, open your browser to full screen and play with it using the…

  • Emily Hare

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    Emily Hare is a freelance illustrator based in the UK who has a wonderful knack for creating beasties and creatures. These have a nicely strange charm, or a charming strangeness, or, well.. you get the idea. Though she used to work digitally, she is now working in traditional media, primarily watercolor. Among the items in…

  • Kadir Nelson

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    Kadir Nelson is an illustrator and gallery artist whose style ranges from straightforward to engagingly stylized. His illustration work includes a number of popular picture books as well as editorial work — including the 90th anniversary cover of The New Yorker. This featured a delightful updating of the magazine’s signature character, Eustace Tilly (images above,…

  • William Russell Flint

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    Originally from Scotland, William Russell Flint was an illustrator and watercolor painter who spent much of his career in London, and traveled and painted in France and Italy. Flint’s illustrations of literary or mythological scenes, as well as Gilbert and Sullivan operas, have a nice quality of Golden Age illustration to them. He is also…

  • Woonyoung Jung

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    Woonyoung Jung is a visual development artist with Dreamworks Animation, but most of his online presence is devoted to his personal work — in particular two delightful series. One is “Young Witches”, in which young women in colorful — rather then dour black — witches hats are apparently on vacation or an extended road trip,…

  • Leo (L.J.) Jordaan

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    Leo (L.J.) Jordaan was a Dutch anti-fascist artist and political cartoonist who was living and woking in Amsterdm at the time of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in 1940. Prior to the invasion, Jordaan has been working for the magazine Green. The Nazi occupiers shut down the magazine, along with most of what could…