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Category: Illustration

  • Alex Ross at NRM

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    Alex Ross, who I profiled briefly in 2005, is an American comics artist and illustrator known for his work in the “fully painted” style of comics art. Ross has been one of the foremost proponents of this style, in which the traditional outline and color approach associated with comics is replaced by fully rendered, painted…

  • Thomas Ehretsmann

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    French illustrator Thomas Ehretsmann began his career as a comics artist. As an illustrator, his clients include numerous European magazines and publishers as well as clients in the U.S. In 2009, Ehretsmann had the opportunity to study with the well known Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum. Ehretsmann works primarily in acrylic on paper, utilizing that medium’s…

  • Mucha Documentary

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    A documentary on the brilliant Czech painter and graphic artist Alphonse (Alfons) Mucha is available on YouTube. The video is in six parts and is narrated in English. As always, it’s uncertain how long things like this will remain available on YouTube. [Via Gurney Journey]

  • Picturing Archers on Tor.com

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    I’m happy to see that Irene Gallo is continuing her series of “Picturing…” posts, in which she uses her keen art director’s eye and delightfully eclectic taste to select a series of artworks on a particular theme (see my article on her post, “Picturing Autumn“). This time around her topic is “Picturing Archers“, a surprisingly…

  • David Johnson portraits

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    I wrote about illustrator David Johnson in June of last year. At the time I particularly admired his portraits, wonderfully composed of contrasting areas of intricate line and carefully arranged open shapes. Johnson has launched a Tumblr blog on which he is posting a series of the portraits, titled A Portrait a Day Keeps Myself…

  • Jennifer Hom

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    Originally from New York, Jennifer Hom studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. She now resides in San Francisco and works as an illustrator for Google, where she has created the images for a number of Google Doodles, including the wonderful recent tribute to Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland that I mentioned…