Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Alex Mathers

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    Alex Mathers is a Danish-born illustrator now living in London, whose clients include The Washington Post, Wired Magazine, Sony, Google, Saatchi & Saatchi Penguin and others. He studied geography, and brings a love of that subject to his vector based illustrations, maps and info graphics. He has a style that is crisp and richly colored,…

  • Barry Blitt

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    Barry Blitt is an illustrator and cartoonist whose clients include Vanity Fair, Time, Rolling Stone The Atlantic and The New York Times, where he contributes regularly to the op-ed page. He is probably best known, however for his New Yorker covers, which are frequently political (in contrast to the majority of New Yorker covers) and…

  • Maike Plenzke

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    German illustrator Maike Plenzke is still in the early stages of her career, as evidenced by the presence of some school related projects on her blog and website, but she is off to a very promising start. Her nicely stylized approach uses a muted color palette, theatrical application of lights and darks and a vibrant…

  • Mike Yamada

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    Mike Yamada is a visual development artist at Dreamworks Animation, whose credits include Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, Bee Movie and Monsters vs. Aliens, among others. Most of the work on his blog is from personal projects, or demos done for his classes at the Art Center College of Design. A number…

  • Lois van Baarle

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    Lois van Baarle is a Dutch illustrator and concept artist currently living and working in Utrecht. Her digital painting style combines the kind of lively, springy drawing sometimes found in animation and gaming concept art with Art Nouveau-inspired flowing curves and sweeping design elements. Her website portfolio is divided into basic sections within which are…

  • Roberto Parada (update)

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    Since I last wrote about him in 2007, well known illustrator Roberto Parada has continued to add to his portfolio wonderful examples of his portraits, caricatures, editorial illustrations and frequently loopy and hilarious twists on various themes (Gorilla With a Pearl Earring, indeed!). He also continues to be an advocate for promoting artists’ awareness of…