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Category: Illustration

  • Eye Candy for Today: Cervantes by Doré

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    Miguel de Cervantes – Don Qixote, plate 1: A world of disorderly notions, picked out of his books, crowded into his imagination by Gustave Doré. On Wikimedia Commons. Note: the high-resolution file linked from the preview image is genuinely high-resolution: 30mb! Detail crops above are at about one quarter full resolution. I love the tiny…

  • Charles Santoso

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    Charles Santoso is a concept artist and art director based in Sydney, Australia and currently working for Animal Logic. In his spare time he takes on illustration projects and maintains a website, blog and Tumblr account on which he posts those projects, preliminaries, and his wonderful quirky and visually charming personal work. On the blog…

  • Illustration Friday redesigned website

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    Illustration Friday is a venerable community website that each week presents a “challenge” in the form of a topic (e.g. “Fluid”, Messenger”, “Disguise”, “Vanity”, “Stripes”, “Fearless”, etc.) that illustrators, aspiring illustrators and artists of all stripes can use as a springboard for their own interpretation. This is just a no deadline, no pressure way to…

  • Kingdom Animalia

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    Kingdom Animalia is an online group art exhibit and sale to benefit the Big Life Foundation, an non-profit conservation group created by photographer Nick Brandt in response to the alarming increase in animal poaching in Africa. The show includes contributions by a number of artists, both originals and limited edition prints. The works are, naturally…

  • Arthur Rackham (update)

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    Arthur Rackham was one of the greatest illustrators of the turn of the 20th century Golden Age of Illustration, that is to say one of the greatest illustrators of all time. Though many are familiar with his beautiful illustrations for Rip van Winkle (images above, top), which established his reputation, and Gulliver’s Travels, as well…

  • Ben Heine (update)

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    I first wrote about Belgian painter, illustrator and photographer Ben Heine back in 2010, when I highlighted his delightful series called “Pencil vs. Camera“, in which he draws a continuation or substitution for part of a scene, usually in pencil on a ragged edged piece of paper or card, and then photographs the drawing held…