Category: Illustration
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Virgil Finlay (update)
A recent comment from a reader on a post I did back in 2006 reminded me that I haven’t written for some time about the great science fiction, fantasy and horror illustrator Virgil Finlay. Though he worked in a variety of media, both in color and in black and white, Finlay is noted primarily for…
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Sketches from Richard Solomon artists
I’ve written previously about a number of illustrators who are represented by Richard Solomon, a well known artists representative in New York whose list of represented artists reads like a who’s who of the top names in contemporary illustration. In addition to the portfolios of represented artists on the Richard Solomon website (for which I’ll…
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Marcin Jakubowski
Marcin Jakubowski is a freelance concept artist and illustrator who works digitally, painting his atmospheric images primarily in Photoshop. Based in Gdansk, Poland, Jakubowski works with a variety of clients in CG animation, TV shows and commercials. His website has examples of his illustrations, character and creature design and environments, as well as a section…
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Scott Gustafson
Scott Gustafson’s richly textured and intricately detailed illustrations are steeped in his admiration for great illustrators of the Golden Age like N.C. Wyeth, Normal Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish and Arthur Rackham. Though he has had numerous commercial clients in his 25 year career, his fondness for those great classic illustrations, and the classic stories they often…
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Leyendecker’s Santas
Even though it was Thomas Nast who fleshed out the old fellow, pipe and toys in hand, Reginald Birch who gave his suit its colors and Haddon Sundblom who often incorrectly gets the credit (much as I like him), I still maintain that our modern concept and image of Santa Claus owes more to J.…
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Picturing Winter on Tor.com
In what I think is both a terrific idea and a beautiful result, Irene Gallo, art director of Tor Books, posted a column yesterday on Tor.com to mark the Winter Solstice in which she had asked 20 contemporary illustrators to suggest some of their favorite images of winter. The article features images of some of…