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Category: Illustration

  • Sam Bosma

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    Sam Bosma is an illustrator, comics artist and animaiton background artist whose clients include Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Cartoon Network, MTV and Image Comics. His website includes example of his work in several categories. You can see more, and larger images, on his blog,…

  • Fernando Juarez

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    Fernando Juarez Is an illustrator, concept artist and art director whose clients include Random House, Penguin Group, Running Press Kids and Carlton Books, among others. In his role as art director and visual development artist at Ilion Animation Studios, his credits include Planet 51. His blog features both professional work and personal projects. You can…

  • Collaborating with a 4-year old

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    While drawing in a toned paper sketchbook, which she had carefully selected for its nice middle ground for adding highlights as well as darks, illustrator Mica Angela Henrdicks was reminded by her 4-year old daughter that kids always want to play with grown-ups’ toys. She reluctantly acquiesced, and the 4-year old proceeded to “finish” a…

  • Maja Wronska

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    Maja Wronska is, I think, a Polish architecture student. I’m a little uncertain in that she doesn’t appear to have a dedicated website — relying instead on a deviantART gallery and a Tumblog for her web presence, neither of which have much in the way of a bio. She posts on both of them, however,…

  • Kazu Kibuishi's new Harry Potter cover illustrations

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    Illustrator and comics artist Kazu Kibuishi, who I have written about previously, has recently had the enviable task of creating new cover illustrations for the Scholastic re-printings of the Harry Potter books. There is a brief interview with Kibuishi and some of the covers on io9, and an article with I think one additional cover…

  • My new post on Tor.com on concept art and the real U.S. space program in the 1950's

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    I’ve written new article for Tor.com titled “How Concept Art Helped Sell the U.S. Space Program“. In it, I of course explain what I mean by the title, showcase some terrific space art by Chesley Bonestell, Fred Freeman and Rolf Klep, and link to a source for more. You can see my previous articles for…