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Category: Illustration

  • David Malan (update)

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    David Malan is a Utah based artist whose range os styles extends from elegant realist portraiture to delightfully exaggerated caricature. Malan was the subject of one of my earliest Lines and Colors posts, back in October of 2006. At the time, he was workign as a concept artist as well as an illustrator; whether that…

  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2015!

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    As I’ve done every New Year’s Eve for the past nine years, I’ll wish all Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with more of J.C. Leyendecker’s terrific New Year’s babies from early 20th century covers for The Saturday Evening Post. Have a wonderful, art-filled year!

  • Chris Riddell

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    Chris Riddell is British illustrator and political cartoonist, known for his cartoons in The Observer, and for a series of children’s books he has illustrated, written or co-written, including The Edge Chronicles, Goth Girl, Muddle Earth, and his new colaboration with Neil Gaiman, The Sleeper and the Spindle (images above, top three). The latter title…

  • Another wonderful Leyendecker Santa Claus

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    I’ve suggested before that although others preceded him in developing the character of The Jolly One, I think the great American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker is most responsible for the contemporary version of Santa Claus we are familiar with today. For more, see my previous Christmas Eve posts on Leyendecker’s Santas and Illustrators’ Visions of Santa…

  • Doug Panton

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    Doug Panton is a Canadian designer and illustrator whose long and impressive client list includes The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Barron’s Weekly, US News & World Report, The Boston Globe, The Globe & Mail, The Toronto Star, Oxford University Press, HarperCollins, MacMillan’s, McGraw-Hill and Scholastic. Panton’s imaginative, beautifully finessed and…

  • Greg Call

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    Greg Call is a Montana based illustrator who specializes in fantasy and adventure subjects. Call is noted in particular for his illustrations for the Peter and the Starcatchers series of novels, that pick up where Peter Pan left off. Originally from Colorado, he studied at the Colorado Institute of Art and later at the Art…