Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Douglas Smith

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    There is something special about the appeal of scratchboard. In skilled hands it can combine some of the visual charm of woodcuts or engravings with the best characteristics of pen and ink. The work of Douglas Smith is a prime example of the medium’s strengths. Smith is an illustrator, originally from New York, who established…

  • Ed Binkley (update)

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    It’s been a while since I checked in on fantasy and concept artist Ed Binkley, so I thought I’d pull back the deep forest undergrowth and see what’s happening under the leaves. The good news is that Binkley has posted additional images to his blog and his Holy-Men and Monsters gallery. Binkley’s wonderfully textural evocations…

  • Glenn Gustafson

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    Glenn Gustafson is an illustrator from North Carolina whose crisp clear illustration style takes advantage of the graphic properties of vector art, along with a keen sense of light and atmosphere, to produce a range of work that has both punch and subtlety. In his website’s portfolio section you will find subsections for various subjects…

  • Mike Bear

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    Mike Bear is a concept artist, illustrator and comics artist. His clients include Rockstar Games, Hasbro, Devil’s Due Publishing, Royal Elastics, Lolapps, Inc., Popcap, and EA. Bear’s sketchblog includes some examples of his professional work but more often works in progress, personal flights of fancy, sketches, life drawings, and other graphic meanderings — a visual…

  • Bill Carman at Brumfield’s in Boise

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    Like that irresistibly alliterative title, Bill Carman’s work seems to have bounced out of his imagination fully formed, too wonderfully refined in its execution to be so delightfully off-kilter in its subjects. After solo shows in New York and California, Carman’s characters, beasts and undefinable others — rendered in pen and ink, watercolor, acrylic and…

  • Ashley Edge

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    Ashley Edge is an artist based in Manchester, U.K. who works primarily in graphite on board. He has begun to post illustrations to a blog, beginning with some interpretations of stories by Angela Carter and H.G. Wells. You will also find some graphite portraits, and reference to a project he is working on with designer…