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Category: Illustration

  • Jean-Baptiste Monge (update 2016)

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    Jean-Baptiste Monge is an illustrator, concept artist and character designer who I have featured previously on Lines and Colors. Monge combines superb draftsmanship, sensitive textural rendering, and a keen appreciation of color and value in his beautifully realized character creations — in particular his delightful gnomes, goblins, trolls and other “faerie folk”. Monge has an…

  • Kathryn Rathke (update)

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    Kathryn Rathke is a Seattle based illustrator who I first wrote about in 2010. Since then, she has continued to fill out her portfolio with her delightfully calligraphic digital “ink” drawings of figures and faces — some familiar, some less so — but all brimming with personality and character. Her clients include Vanity Fair, The…

  • Shinji Tsuchimochi’s 100 Views of Tokyo

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    The name of Japanese illustrator Shinji Tsuchimochi’s series of drawings, “100 Views of Tokyo“, is of course a reference to the well known series of 19th century woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige, “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” (AKA Tokyo). Tsuchimochi’s colorful, sometimes straightforward but often fanciful drawings of his home city owe as much…

  • Tom Lovell (update)

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    Tom Lovell was a superb American illustrator who was active through much of the 20th century. His style ranged from straightforward, classically delineated realism to dramatically composed pulp magazine action to the more graphically designed illustrations often associated with cutting edge mid-century styles. Lovell was particularly influenced by his friend and fellow illustrator Harry Anderson,…

  • James Gurney’s Fantasy in the Wild

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    In his “In the Wild” series of instructional painting videos, painter, illustrator, writer and instructor James Gurney has previously given us Watercolor in the Wild and Gouache in the Wild (links to my reviews), delving into the use of those mediums on location. He has followed up with an interesting variation, Fantasy in the Wild:…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Franklin Booth pen and ink landscape drawing

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    Landscape drawing (untitled), Franklin Booth Link is to Outside Logic, from this page of Franklin Booth drawings. I don’t know of a reference to the title or use of this drawing as an illustration. Golden Age American illustrator Franklin Booth developed his brilliant and unique style of pen and ink illustration from the mistaken assumption…