Category: Illustration
-
Irena Roman
Irena Roman paints bright, crisp, transparent watercolors, both as illustrations and for gallery display. She particularly excels at the challenge of portraying the play of light across, through and around transparent or translucent objects and their often complex shadows. You can find a selection of her work on The iSpot, though the images a bit…
-
The Monster Engine (Dave DeVries)
The Monster Engine is a project by illustrator and comics artist Dave DeVries that originated in a simple concept. In looking through the drawings and doodles that his young niece had made in his sketchbooks, he wondered what it might look like if children’s drawings were finished off by an accomplished adult artist. Since then,…
-
Patrick Woodroffe (update)
English artist and writer Patrick Woodroffe is self taught as an artist, having studied languages at the University of Leeds. He is noted for his illustrations for books and record album covers, basically in a fantasy vein, but with a unique approach and artistic roots in artists like Bosch and Bruegel as well as Surrealism…
-
The 50 best comic covers of 2011 on Robot 6
Kevin Melrose, writing on the excellent comics blog Robot 6, part of the Comic Book Resources site, at the end of the year presents his list of the 50 best comic book covers of the year. Comic book covers occupy a particularly fascinating niche in publishing, inheriting some of the lurid, lure you in with…
-
Craig Phillips (update)
Australian illustrator Craig Phillips has a crisp, clear style that ranges from the simplicity of line and color fill to slightly more rendered, but always has a strong sense of design and negative space. Phillips uses limited color ranges to great effect, often creating dynamic composition is what amounts to duotone. Not only do his…
-
Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2012!
As I’ve done every New Year’s Eve for the past six years, I’ll wish all Lines and Colors readers a Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year! In addition to crystalizing our popular image of Santa Claus (see my recent post), the great American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker originated the contemporary concept of representing the new year as…