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Category: Illustration

  • Retrofuture illustration from Japan on Dark Roasted Blend

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    Dark Roasted Blend has posted another of their “retro-future” illustration selections, this one featuring wonderfully over-the-top Japanese illustrations for magazines, toy and model boxes and advertisements from the 1930’s through the 1960’s. Most of the images are linked to larger versions. They’ve also tossed in a 1980’s advertisement for Canon that features Katsuhiro Otomo’s characters…

  • Breath of Embers: Art of Dragons

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    There’s just something about dragons, in all their scaly, writhing, whip-tailed, bat-winged glory, that gives artists a subject they can really, if you’ll excuse the expression, sink their teeth into. Breath of Embers: Art of Dragons is a new show at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, California that revels in dragons in a multitude of interpretations…

  • Steve Jobs typographical portrait by Dylan Roscover

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    In his wonderful typographical (and topographical) portrait of Steven Paul Jobs, designer and artist Dylan Roscover defined Jobs’ face and hand in words taken from the “Here’s to the crazy ones…” Apple ads, in typefaces associated with Apple graphic design. The ads, part of Apple’s famous “Think Different” campaign created by the Los Angeles offices…

  • Sketchtravel completed

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    Sketchtravel is a project started by illustrators Gérald Guerlais and Daisuke (“Dice”) Tsutsumi in 2006 in which a single sketchbook has traveled around the world, being handed from artist to artist between 70 artists in 15 cities, each adding a single page to the whole. The project, which involves well known illustrators, animators and comics…

  • Flesk Prime

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    I’ve written before about Flesk Publications, a small specialty art book publisher that concentrates on presenting illustrators and comics artists. Among the artists are many that I’ve featured here on Lines and Colors. Flesk has published a book called Flesk Prime in which five artists are highlighted in the same volume. Four are artists who…

  • Art Out Loud 7

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    Art Out Loud 7 is the latest in a series of group demonstrations by well known illustrators at the Society of Illustrators in New York. Art Out Loud 7 takes place on Saturday, September 24, 2011 from 1 to 5pm. Participating artists for this event are Donato Giancola, Greg Manchess, Rick Berry, Boris Vallejo and…