Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Norman Rockwell Museum on Google Art Project

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    Wow, am I ever enjoying the recently updated Google Art Project (as I reported recently). Despite my own Time Sink Warning, I’ve been pulled back here way too often. I found this morning that among the cornucopia of art from the newly added museums is the Norman Rockwell Museum in Massachusetts. The museum houses not…

  • Cory Godbey

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    Cory Godbey is an illustrator and animator based in Greenville, South Carolina whose work utilizes elegant lines, stylized drawing and deep, carefully limited color palettes to achieve wonderful effect. He makes use of these strengths, as well as a rich imagination, in his illustrations of classic children’s stories as well as contemporary themes. I particularly…

  • How Do Artists Protect Their Work Online? on Symbiartic

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    Writing for Symbiartic, a blog devoted to scientific art on Scientific American that he co-authors with Kalliopi Monoyios, Glendon Mellow recently asked several science related artists to comment on the question How Do Artists Protect Their Work Online? Mellow asked me to participate, which I did in my role as the author/artist of Dinosaur Cartoons…

  • Picturing Spring: An Equinox Celebration on Tor.com

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    In what I hope will become a regular feature, Irene Gallo, art director of Tor, Forge, Starscape and Tor.com, has reprised the idea behind her post from last December, Picturing Winter, a Solstice Celebration, as Picturing Spring: An Equinox Celebration. The basis of the original post was to ask several illustrators and art directors to…

  • Jose Emroca Flores (update)

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    Jose Emroca Flores is an illustrator and a senior concept designer at Activision/Blizzard Highmoon Studios in California who has done work for companies like EA, Vivendi Universal and Nike and whose work has been featured by Spectrum, Computer Arts and the Society of Illustrators, among others. Since I last wrote about him back in 2007,…

  • Jean Giraud (Moebius) 1938-2012

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    I spent some time trying to select the right images for this post. I found the top one particularly appropriate; if there’s any artist that I associate with magic coming to life from the pages of a book, it’s French comics artist, illustrator and movie concept artist Jean Giraud, more commonly known by his pen…