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Category: Illustration

  • Fian Arroyo

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    Fian Arroyo is an illustrator and character designer based in North Carolina whose clients include The Los Angeles Times, U.S. News and World Report, Houghton Mifflin, Scholastic, Disney, General Motors and The U.S. Postal Service. In the portfolios on his website and Behance pages you’ll find work in a variety of genres, done in a…

  • Ivan Sulima

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    Ivan Sulima is a Ukrainian illustrator who focuses on children’s book illustration. Aside from that, there is little bio information on his website or Behance portfolio. Among his projects is a free interactive iPad book titled Rolling Pea.

  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2016!

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    As I’ve done every New Year’s Eve for the past 10 years, I’ll wish all Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with a few more of J.C. Leyendecker’s terrific New Year’s babies. These are from a three decade run of The Saturday Evening Post covers from the early 20th century. For more, see…

  • Kay Nielsen’s illustrations for East of the Sun and West of the Moon

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    East of the Sun and West of the Moon is a classic Norwegian book of fairy tales, most famously illustrated in a 1914 edition by the superb Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen. Taschen has just published a new deluxe, slipcased edition of the book. I haven’t personally seen it yet, but judging from other Taschen volumes,…

  • Thomas Nast’s Santa Claus illustrations

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    Pioneering American political cartoonist and illustrator Thomas Nast — who was active during the mid to late 19th century, and particularly during the period of the American Civil War — was instrumental in the creation of the contemporary image of Santa Claus. Though I often credit the later illustrations of J.C. Leyendecker with fully fleshing…

  • Chris Dunn

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    Chris Dunn is an English illustrator and gallery artist whose most recent project is a series of watercolor paintings inspired by the classic children’s story The Wind in the Willows. Dunn has a wonderfully finessed style, combining a visceral, tactile realism with a delightful portrayal of his anthropomorphic animal protagonists. There is a warmth and…