Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Yvan Duque

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    Yvan Duque is a French illustrator, about whom I can find little information, other than a relation to a studio or group known as L’Encre Blanch (White Ink). Duque has a web presence in the form of a Tumblog, a presence on the L’Encre Blanch Behance gallery and a store on Etsy. The work, which…

  • Elizabeth Shippen Green (update)

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    I will admit that I’ve gotten a bit spoiled by the general tendency of the web to increasingly provide wonderful art images. If there is an artist whose work was not very accessible five or six years ago, chances are good that more resources are available now, or will be as time goes on. (Hopefully…

  • MicroVisions 2014

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    MicroVisions is a yearly event in which established illustrators pay it forward by contributing small original artworks to be auctioned off on eBay, with proceeds to benefit the Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Fund. This year’s auction is in progress, and features some wonderful pieces. Participants include Richard Anderson, Steve Belledin, Nicolas Delort, Eric Fortune,…

  • Mukesh Singh (update)

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    When I wrote about Indian comics artist and illustrator Mukesh Singh back in 2011, I was only aware of his work on one major project, Grant Morrison’s 18 Days, but that was enough to impress me with his wonderfully lavish and over the top style, that combined western and Indian traditional sensibilities. Since then, Singh…

  • Tim Foley (update)

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    Tim Foley is a long-established freelance illustrator based in Michigan, who I profiled back in 2009. His clients include The Wall Street Journal, Consumer Reports, Barrons, Penguin Books, Harper Collins and Dover Publications, among others. Though he also works in paint, pastel and other drawing media, Foley’s primary medium is colored scratchboard. Scratchboard often invites…

  • My article in the Spring 2014 issue of Drawing Magazine

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    I’ve written another article for Drawing magazine. This one appears in the new Spring 2014 issue, that is now in bookstores and newsstands. In the article, titled “Fresh Ink”, I profile seven contemporary artists working in ink, in a variety of approaches and styles. This even includes “digital ink”, in the drawings of Marcos Mateu-Mestre,…