Category: Illustration
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Dave Malan (update 2023)
Dave Malan is an artist an illustrator I’ve featured twice before, most recently back in 2015. Since then he has updated his website with more of his delightful illustrations, portraits, and drawings. As you might guess from my choice of example images, I’m particularly fond of his pencil portrait drawings. These range from brief sketches…
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Eye Candy for Today: Hal Foster Prince Valiant strip
A beautiful Hal Foster 1939 Prince Valiant Sunday newspaper comic strip from the glory days of newspaper adventure comics. This is a photo of the original art. It would have been printed in color as a full newspaper page, at a time when newspapers were much larger than the ridiculous size they’ve been reduced to…
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Eye Candy for Today: illustration by Kay Nielsen
I believe this illustration by turn of the 20th century Danish illustrator Kay (pronounced “kigh”) Neilsen is for a collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales that included The Twelve Dancing Princesses. Image sourced from poulwebb.blogspot.com.
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Rudy Siswanto (update)
Rudy Siswanto is an Illustration Craft Lead at Riotgames; which basically means he leads a team of illustrators and concept designers who help craft the look and feel of particular games. I’m not a gamer, so I don’t recognize the games for which these images were created, but many of them involve animal characters that…
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Pierre Commarmond
Pierre Commarmond was a French landscape painter and poster artist, most recognized for his delightful railroad travel posters created in the 1920s and 30s. I particulary enjoy posters of this kind; their flat colors and strong design elements remind me of color woodcuts. I believe many of the original paintings for these were done in…
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Stephanie Law
Stephanie Law is a watercolor painter from California. Her work ranges from straightforward botanical art to fantastical imaginings with a botanical feel, to stylized animal and plant forms, to fairie images that evoke a feeling of 19th century European illustrators like Rackham and Dulac. Her watercolor paintings often incorporate elements of metal leaf and ink,…