Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Jess and Russ

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    OK, now this is how you do an online wedding invitation. I can’t possibly do better in describing “Jess and Russ” than Scott McCloud did in his tweet this morning: “Another day, another stunning, collaborative, parallax-scrolling, infinite canvas wedding invitation.” Exactly. Collaborative refers to the contributions that the couple, both designers, elicited from their friends…

  • C.F. Payne (update)

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    With a terrific skill for caricature, a flair for whimsy and superb draftsmanship and technique, C.F. Payne has long been recognized as one of America’s foremost contemporary illustrators. His clients include Time, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone, Esquire, National Geographic, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic Monthly and a wonderful series of covers for…

  • Not Blown Cover

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    Back in March I reported about Blown Covers, a personal blog started by New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly. The blog is loosely based on her book of the same title, Blown Covers, about New Yorker cover submissions that didn’t make the cut, for reasons often fascinating and amusing. The premise of the blog, however,…

  • Picturing Summer, a Solstice Celebration on Tor.com

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    Following up on her terrific previous posts of Picturing Winter, a Solstice Celebration and Picturing Spring, an Equinox Celebration, Irene Gallo has once again invited an array of artists and art directors to give her their suggestions for favorite seasonal images, this time for Picturing Summer, a Solstice Celebration. As in those previous posts, the…

  • Daniel Sponton

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    There is a fascination to drawings and paintings in which many figures are arrayed in the same space, often in a semi-aerial view that allows for lots of them to be seen at once. Argentinian cartoonist and illustrator Daniel Sponton has developed an illustration style that features hundreds of small figures arranged in sometimes complex…

  • Julia Sarda

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    Julia Sarda is an illustrator, concept artist and character designer based in Barcelona. She has a wonderful, lively style, a superb sense of color and a great feeling for visual drama. She also demonstrates a masterful command of dark and light in her compositions, and plays with theatrical spotlight effects and uplighting to great effect.…