Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Ibuki Satsuki

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    Ibuki Satsuki (handle: Moyu Zhai) is a Chinese digital artist whose works are often wistful, whimsical and evocative. Though the characters are manga/anime influenced, they’re not overly stylized. Of most interest to me, though, are the backgrounds and environments. These range from fantastical to more identifiable real world scenes., often with dramatic lighting and Art…

  • Eye Turkey for Today: J.C. Leyendecker SEP cover

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    Begging for Turkey, J.C. Leyendecker, illustration for Saturday Evening Post Thanksgiving cover, December 2, 1933, oil on canvas, 32 x 24 inches (82 x 60 cm). Link is to the artwork on The Illustrated Gallery, large image here. Another wonderful display of illustrative finess by the great American illustrator. Leyendecker seems to be way less…

  • Stan Manoukian

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    Stan Manoukian is a French illustrator, cartoonist, designer and storyboard artist. Alongside his other projects, Manoukian is an inveterate monster enthusiast. The tagline for his website is ” Monster lover since 1969″. His monsters and be cute or spooky and are often both simultneously. They are rendered with precision and enthusiasm in pencil, pen, duotone…

  • Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art

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    Anton Seder was an illustrator, designer, art teacher and art school director active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who worked in a style that combined Art Nouveau, naturalism and perhaps a touch of magic realism. The Animal in Decorative Art was a design resource, one of many published in the late 19th…

  • Xu Yao

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    Xu Yao is a Chinese illustrator, comics artist and game designer about whom I can find little biographical information. I don’t know what kind of projects the artwork I’ve encountered is associated with, but it is delightfully playful and beautifully conceived. There is a recurring theme of characters interacting with exaggeratedly large objects like teapots…

  • Douglas Smith (update)

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    Douglas Smith is an illustrator whose specialty is working in the fascinating medium of scratchboard. I first wrote about him in 2013, and I thought iw would be interesting to check back into see some additional work. He uses the wonderfully graphic nature of the medium, both in black and white and in color, to…