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Category: Illustration

  • Eye Candy for Today: Gibson’s jurors

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    Studies In Expression. When Women Are Jurors, Charles Dana Gibson Beautifully confident pen and ink by a master. This large version of the image is on a Russian site called Artscroll, which features a list of additional Gibson images.

  • Matthew Meyer

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    Matthew Meyer grew up in New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia, and studied illustration at the Ringling College of Art in Florida. After traveling to Japan on a study abroad program, he was so inspired by Japanese art and culture that he moved there in 2007. Meyer has been using digital art to create images…

  • Eric Fraser

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    Eric Fraser was a 20th century British illustrator best known for his illustrations in Radio Times that spanned a run of over 40 years. Fraser also worked in many other venues, from book illustration to commercial art for advertising, His work is the subject of a retrospective at the Chris Beetles Gallery in London, that…

  • Kate Baylay

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    Though she is a recent graduate of the illustration program at the University of West England, Kate Barley’s style has a mature feel. She takes inspiration in the work of great Golden Age illustrators like Kay Nielsen, Edmund Dulac and Harry Clarke, with a bit of Aubrey Beardsley and perhaps a touch of early 20th…

  • Tomislav Tomić

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    Tomislav Tomić is an illustrator from Croatia whose illustrations carry influences of both Golden Age illustration and Renaissance printmaking. Tomić works with technical pens (Rotring Isographs), adding color for some pieces with colored inks, watercolor and occasionally acrylics. There is a recent feature on his tools on The Tools Artists Use, which is where I…

  • Massimo Carnevale movie portraits

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    As I reported back in 2011, Italian illustrator and comics artist Massimo Carnevale has for some time been posting to his blog, Sketches’natched, a series of his interpretations of various movies (and occasionally tv series). These are apparently done for fun, and it’s fascinating how he pics elements from the movies that, while characteristic of…