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Category: Illustration

  • Landscape alphabet, L.E.M. Jones

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    This wonderful alphabet, composed of landscape images, was created in the early 19th century. If I understand correctly, it was designed and drawn by an artist named L.E.M. Jones, and then printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, who may have made the lithographic drawings from which the prints were pulled. Full set is in the British…

  • Tyler Jacobson (update)

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    When I first profiled illustrator Tyler Jacobson here on Lines and Colors in 2010, he was only about a year out of graduation from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, but already accepting major clients, as well as representation from Richard Solomon. Since then, he has continued to develop his dramatic style and…

  • Mark Fredrickson

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    Mark Fredrickson is a well-established illustrator whose clients include Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated, The Village Voice, Business Week and Mad Magazine. His range of style reaches from straightforwardly realistic to highly exaggerated caricature. At times, he walks a line between portraiture and caricature, as in his portrayal of Phillip Seymour Hoffman (above, top). All of…

  • Otto Björnik

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    Illustrator Otto Björnik combines a charming drawing style with intricate line work in his whimsical drawings. He contrasts areas of white with areas of texture and detail to lead the viewer’s eye through his compositions. Occasionally, he augments his pen and ink work with color, as in his pieces done for Yahoo (above, bottom). In…

  • Pol Turgeon

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    Pol Turgeon is an illustrator whose work feels a bit retro, but not, and a bit referential, but not, and a bit here, but more likely there. Hmmm, let me try again… Pol Turgeon is an illustrator whose work apparently slides side into this reality from small cracks between dimensions. Unfortunately, his website is apparently…

  • Orlando Arocena

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    Illustrator and character designer Orlando Arocena is from New York, where he studied at the Pratt Institute. Arocena works primarily in vector art, creating his striking illustrations in Adobe Illustrator with a Wacom tablet. His Behance portfolio features lots of process step-throughs, showing the paths in both line and fill mode. You can also find…