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Category: Illustration

  • Eye Candy for Today: Franklin Booth ink drawing

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    Echoes, Franklin Booth From The Golden Age Site blog, where you will find lots more. See my previous posts on Franklin Booth here on Lines and Colors.

  • Emmanuel Malin (update)

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    Emmanuel Malin is an illustrator, art director and concept artist for the gaming industry based in Paris. I initially profiled Malin here on Lines and Colors back in 2010. Malin creates fascinatingly textural images with layers of shapes within larger shapes defining his compositions. He works with both bright and muted color palettes, often contrasting…

  • Eye Candy for Today: three Howard Pyle drawings

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    Today marks the birthday of the great American painter, illustrator and master of pen and ink, Howard Pyle. These three drawings, illustrations for one of Pyle’s own books, are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has high-resolution images of them. I’ve provided the titles and links to the images on the…

  • Michal Dziekan

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    Michal Dziekan is an illustrator and character designer based in Warsaw, Poland, whose stylistic range reaches from acerbic cartoony exaggeration to surprisingly lyrical imagery. His website includes pages of illustrations from various projects, most of which offer crops that allow you to appreciate some of the wonderful details Dziekan incorporates into his illustrations. He also…

  • Matthew Cook (update)

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    In many ways, all art is about selection. Whether representational or non-representational, imaginary or abstracted from reality — visual art is about choices of what to show and what not to show. So, for that matter, is writing, music and all other forms of communication and expression. Ever since bottom-line mandates turned “news” into “infotainment”,…

  • Matt Rockefeller

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    Given the conceptual sophistication and confident execution of Matt Rockefeller’s illustration and visual development work, you may be surprised, as I was, to discover that he is still in his final year at Maryland Institute College of Art. His website has examples of his work in both illustration and concept art, as well as a…