Category: Illustration
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Charles Santore
Philadelphia illustrator Charles Santore stated out doing editorial illustrations — individual pieces that accompanied articles in periodicals — but once he experienced an assignment to illustrate a children’s book, a new edition of Beatrix Potter’s Tale of Peter Rabbit in 1985, he realized that he much preferred the extended thematic possibilities of book illustration, with…
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Eye Candy for Today: Herbert Railton pen and ink illustration
Entance to the Poets Corner, from A Brief Account of Westminster Abbey; Herbert Railton Railton was a well known 19th century British artist and illustrator, and is one of my favorite pen and ink artists. His wonderful architectural renderings are a brilliant balance of detail and suggestion. Intricate textural passages can lead directly into areas…
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Pawel Kuczynski
Pawel Kuczynski is a Polish artist whose illustrations combine characteristics of satirical social commentary cartoons and editorial illustration. Using a rendered style, Kuczynski uses metaphor and logical twists to point out injustice, absurdity, greed, and other social ills, as well as simply exploring some whimsical flights of fancy. His overall range of targets, and something…
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Jared Muralt
Swiss illustrator and comics artist Jared Muralt works in a pen and ink style that combines line and hatching with bits of lightly applied stipple. Many of his illustrations are colored, either with watercolor or digital color. You can see his work as within the milieu of French and Belgian comics art styles, particularly those…
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Tadahiro Uesugi (update 2014)
I first wrote about Japanese illustrator Tadahiro Uesugi back in 2005, and again in 2010. While his awkwardly arranged website has unfortunately not been revised, his work is a fresh and wonderful as ever. Influenced by an affection for 1950s and 1960s “modern” styles of American advertising art, Uesugi brings together a strong sense of…
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Nicolas Delort (update)
Nicolas Delort is a Canadian/French illustrator who I wrote about in early 2013, and featured in the article on contemporary ink artists I wrote for the Spring 2014 issue of Drawing Magazine. Since then, Delort has revised and updated his blog and website, adding a number of striking new images done in his beautiful ink…