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Category: Illustration

  • Jonathan Burton

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    Jonathan Burton is a British illustrator now based in Bordeaux, France. His clients include Time, Nature, New Scientist, The Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Folio Society, Penguin Books, Orion Books and many others. He was recently called on by The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to create the images for their…

  • Retro Future Transportation Illustrations on DRB

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    Is it the future yet? I just love past visions of the future (particularly when the future is in our past). The folks at Dark Roasted Blend, as they often do, have assembled some nice collections of retro future illustration — in this case past visions of future transportation, mostly culled from popular science magazines…

  • Nicolas Delort

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    Nicolas Delort, a freelance illustrator based in Paris, creates wonderfully textural pen & ink (on scratchboard) illustrations that take inspiration from greats like Franklin Booth and Gustav Doré — with perhaps a bit of Joseph Clement Coll and Virgil Finlay thrown in for good measure. Delort’s website is essentially just a placeholder at the moment,…

  • Francis Livingston (update)

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    Francis Livingston is a gallery artist and illustrator based in Idaho who I wrote about back in 2006. Since then his style continued to develop and change, exploring new themes. In his latest work, he floats animals through the skies, parks and large scale building interiors of New York, as well as placing other objects…

  • Recipe Comix

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    Back in 2010 I reported on They Draw and Cook, a project in which illustrators and other artists contribute recipes in the form of illustrations. In something of a variation on that idea, food site Saveur has been running Recipe Comix, a series in which they have asked a number of comics artists to contribute…

  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2013!

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    As I’ve done for the past seven years, I’ll wish all Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with more Saturday Evening Post covers by J.C. Leyendecker, the great American illustrator who originated the modern tradition of representing the new year as a baby. My your new year be filled with beautiful art!