Category: Illustration
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Mark A. Nelson
Mark A. Nelson is an illustrator, comics artist, concept artist and art director. He has worked for Dark Horse Comics, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Kitchen Sink Press, Wizards of the Coast, TSR and many other publishers, as well as gaming and visual development companies like Raven Software, Sega Games and Pure Imagination Studios. Nelson has…
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USDA Pomological Watercolors Digital Collection
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has placed online and extensive digital collection of late 19th and early 20th century watercolors of fruit varieties that were commissioned both as a botanical resource and as illustrations for the department’s publications. “Pomology” the study of fruit breeding and production. There are over 7,000 images of watercolors by two…
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Rovina Cai
Australian illustrator Rovina Cai works primarily in graphite, defining her forms in curving linear textures that also sweep through atmospheric backgrounds. Her frequently gothic-themed illustrations also can have color — sparingly applied either digitally or in watercolor, but with an eye to allowing the gestural qualities of her graphite drawing to come through. The portfolio…
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More artists’ studios
Like many artists, I enjoy seeing how other artists arrange and use their studios and work spaces. This is partly out of curiosity and partly with an eye to possibly useful ideas. Here are a couple more sources for photos of artists’ studios, in this case mostly illustrators, concept artists and comics artists. One is…
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Luigi Marchione
Luigi Marchione is an Italian concept artist, stage set designer and art director who brings to his work a wonderful feeling of Renaissance and Baroque art. Though he sometimes works in traditional media — such as soft pastel, charcoal and graphite powder on prepared paper — the majority of the pieces are digital painting done…
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Craig Drake
Craig Drake is an artist and designer who worked for a long time at Lucasfilm. He has recently created a series of posters of characters from Star Wars, as well as other movies and aspects of pop culture. These are rendered in a sleek, minimalist style, with precise but fluid lines and flat areas of…