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Category: Illustration

  • Niroot Puttapipat (himmapaan)

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    Niroot Puttapipat is a London-based illustrator who uses the handle “Himmapaan”. His work shows his admiration for Golden Age illustrators like Arthur Rackham, Howard Pyle and Edmund Dulac, as well as natural history and paleontological greats like Charles R. Knight. Puttapipat works with a nice balance between detailed rendering and graphic shapes, particular in his…

  • Kendyll Hillegas

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    There is something direct, un-fussed with and visually charming about the approach Boston based illustrator and artist Kendyll Hillegas takes in her representations of commonplace objects, most notably food items. Hillegas works in a combination of pencil, watercolor pencil, colored pencil and gouache, as she describes in this post and video from her Tumblog. Her…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Arthur Rackham illustration from The Valkyrie

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    Illustration from Wagner’s The Valkyrie, Arthur Rackham From The Golden Age Site. Another beautiful classic from the Golden Age of Illustration. They don’t call it the Golden Age for nothing. For more, see my previous posts on Arthur Rackham, and here and here.

  • James Akers (update)

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    Back in 2007, I wrote a post about James Akers, an artist who, though comfortable with digital rendering and 3-D illustration, continues to do architectural rendering in watercolor. In the post I made general points about both the way many people — even artists themselves — tend to unfairly compartmentalize and judge genres of art…

  • Stephan Martiniere (update 2014)

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    I first wrote about illustrator and concept artist Stephan Martiniere back in 2006 and followed with an update post in 2008. Since then, Martiniere has updated his website and posted lots of new and wonderful goodies. The problem with doing a post about Martiniere is choosing images for the post, or more specifically, being able…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Dean Cornwell’s artist and model

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    The Artist and His Model, Dean Cornwell This beautiful piece by the brilliant American illustrator Dean Cornwell was in a private collection for years, and was sold at auction last October. The Heritage Auctions site has details. For those who don’t have a Heritage account, you can see the image in high resolution (2.8mb) through…