Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • 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…

  • Ilya Milstein

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    Ilya Milstein is an award winning Italian-Australian illustrator with an impressive client list, currently based in New York. Milstein has a clean, open style that pops with visual charm. While many of his images use traditional linear perspective, a number are in isometric projection. This is a method of representing three dimensional space in which…

  • Minna Sundberg

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    Minna Sundberg is a Danish comics artist and illustrator with a lively, visually charming style. In the illustrations featured in her DeviantART portfolio and the portfolio of her work on Character Design Reverences, I find a fascinating tendency to work with strategically limited palettes. Sundberg is the author and artist of a number of webcomics.…

  • Frédéric Pillot

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    Though not well known here in the U.S. (and undeservedly so), Frédéric Pillot is well known in France as a creator of comics, illustrations and beloved children’s books. Pillot pushes the stylized exaggeration of his characters and environments out to the limits, and then wraps his scenes in lovingly rendered detail, atmosphere and lighting effects.…