Category: Illustration
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Vote like the future of the arts in the US depends on it.
I know those of you in the U.S. are more than weary of this election cycle — and I’m certainly with you on that — but this is too important for me not to say my piece. I’ll leave it to others to tell you how vital this election is in the general sense, and…
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Mateusz Urbanowicz
Originally from Poland, Mateusz Urbanowicz is a concept artist, animator, illustrator and painter currently living in Tokyo. Urbanowicz works in ink, watercolor, gouache and acrylic gouache, as well as in digital media. On his website and other online portfolios, you’ll find a selection of his professional and personal work. I particularly enjoy his series of…
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Anton Pieck (update)
Anton Pieck was Dutch illustrator, printmaker and gallery artist active in the early to mid 20th century. I first wrote about him on Lines and Colors in 2010; since then new online sources for his images have come to light — in particular, a dedicated Anton Pieck website. The site is in Dutch, but you…
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Illustrators’ drawing tables on Frizzi Frizzi
I love to see other artists’ workspaces. This is part curiosity, part searching for useful storage ideas and part reassurance that my floor-to-ceiling amalgam of papers, pens, brushes, jars, containers, books, magazines, computer screens, tablets, disks, trays, pans, tubes, racks, bric-a-brac and dinosaur models is not an aberration. The italian site Frizzi Frizzi has an…
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Adilson Farias
Adilson Farias is a Brazillian children’s book illustrator based in Curitiba. Farias works both in watercolor and digital media, using the characteristics of both to advantage. His work in watercolor often has a loose, informal charm in the application of color. In his digital pieces, he combines precision line work with a jaunty drawing stule…
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Eye Candy for Today: Arthur Rackham illustration for Götterdämmerung
The ring upon thy hand — / … ah, be implored! / For Wotan fling it away! (from Götterdämmerung) One of the many beautiful and sensitively realized illustrations the brilliant “Golden Age” British illustrator Aurhur Rackham did of the stories from Richard Wagner’s “Ring Cycle” series of operas. From this set on Wikimedia Commons. For…