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Category: Illustration

  • Dinotopia 20th Anniversary Edition

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    Originally released 20 years ago, Dinotopia: A Land apart from Time was the first of artist/author James Gurney’s acclaimed and popular illustrated adventure story books placed in the same mythical land. Presented as an adventurer’s sketchbook, which the author has “found”, the story resonates with some of the sense of wonder and discovery to be…

  • Justin Sweet

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    Justin Sweet is a concept artist, illustrator and gallery artist who works primarily in the fantasy genre. He has worked on motion picture projects like Game of Thrones, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and Green Lantern and illustration projects like Magic: The Gathering. Though his gallery art is in oil and watercolor, Sweet works…

  • Gérald Guerlais

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    I first encountered French illustrator Gérald Guerlais through the Sketchtravel charity project, of which he is a co-founder along with Daisuke Tsutsumi (see my recent article on Sketchtravel). Guerlais has a wonderfully springy and energetic style, with some of the feeling of good hand-drawn animation art. His website opens to the portfolio, which is unfortunately…

  • Craig Mullins (Goodbrush), new website

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    For reasons that are lost on me, concept and visual development artists for the film and gaming industries often go by “handles” (nicknames) when publishing their work online. “Goodbrush”, AKA Craig Mulllins, is by either name one of the most recognized and respected artists in the field. He is also one of the first to…

  • Bill Carman at Animazing Gallery

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    The wonderfully idiosyncratic and beautifully rendered work of Bill Carman is on display in an exhibit at the Animazing Gallery in New York. The show is called UnBalanced. It runs until November 30, 2011. Yon can see more of Carman’s work on his blog and in his Flickr galleries for paintings, drawings, book illustration, editorial…

  • They Draw and Cook – the book

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    As I mentioned in my post from last year, They Draw and Cook is a site on which illustrated recipes (or recipes as illustrations) are posted on a regular basis. Created either by artists who cook or cooks who draw (for whatever difference that may be), the recipes are a far cry from your old…