Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Jeremiah Goodman

    Jeremiah Goodman is an illustrator known for his portrayals of room interiors, particularly those of the rich and famous, and/or those designed by well known interior designers. Goodman works in gouache or casein on illustration board. His solid draftsmanship and command of interior perspective provide a firm foundation for his loose, gestural application of color.…

  • Scott Kikuta

    Scott Kikuta is a concept artist and illustrator working in the video gaming industry. His credits include Scribblenauts Unlimited, Dungeon Siege II: Broken World, Dungeon Siege II, Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna, and Halo 3. In a field that is often dominated by heavily rendered approaches, Kikuta has a deft, light touch. He often contrasts…

  • Óscar T. Pérez

    In addition to his editorial illustration for magazines and newspapers, Spanish illustrator Óscar T. Pérez has illustrated a number of books, many of which are new versions of classics by authors like Dickens, Chekhov, Hans Christian Andersen and Mark Twain. Pérez has a nicely stylized and beautifully textural approach, in which he employs muted color…

  • Larry Roibal’s six years of newspaper sketches

    For the past six years, illustrator Larry Roibal has been sketching on the pages of his morning newspaper — drawing portraits of politicians, world leaders, entertainers, sports figures and other newsworthy individuals directly on sections of newspaper articles about them, and then publishing the sketches to his blog. Roibal has collected all 1550 of his…

  • Atlas de Zoologie: ou collection de 100 planches

    Atlas de Zoologie: ou collection de 100 planches (Zoological atlas or collection of 100 plates), by Paul Gervais, is a volume meant to accompany a large set of books on Zoology. Published in France in 1844, the book’s 100 plates feature over 200 illustrations by various artists of a number of different species, both extant…

  • Peter Malone

    Peter Malone is an illustrator from the U.K. who works in watercolor and gouache. His clients include Chronicle Books, Penguin Putnam, Knopf, Pavilion, Random House, Harper Collins, The New Yorker, and Decca. Malone’s work has a sensually textural quality, in which seemingly flat areas of color are made textural by his application of paint. He…