Category: Illustration
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Mark Schultz: Various Drawings Volume 5
It’s customary for many comic book artists and illustrators to publish “sketchbooks”, collections of sketches and drawings of varying degrees of finish, which are frequently more of interest to their dedicated “must have anything” fans than to the more general readership. And then there’s Mark Schultz. Flesk Publications, a small artbook publisher who has a…
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Everything is its own reward: An All Over Coffee Collection, Paul Madonna
Even before seeing it in person, I will without hesitation or reservation recommend Paul Madonna’s Everything is its own reward: An All Over Coffee Collection, the second collection of his remarkable feature in the San Francisco Chronicle, All Over Coffee. For more detail, see the review on Parka Blogs. For more of me raving about…
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Dean Cornwell magazine illustrations
Francis Vallejo points us to a wonderful Flickr set containing scans of magazine illustrations by the great American illustrator Dean Cornwell. Cornwell studied with Harvey Dunn, a student of the amazing Howard Pyle, and also with Frank Brangwyn, carrying forward the intensity, power and superb draftsmanship that were the hallmarks of those great illustrators’ work.…
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Al Williamson Archives: Volume 2
As I mentioned in my previous posts on him, I consider Al Williamson one of the greats of 20th Century comics art, and an important bridge between the traditions of the newspaper adventure strips of the first half of the century and the “Silver Age” comic books of the second. Williamson carried forward the excellence…
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Joe Fenton
Joe Fenton started in sculpture, moved into concept art for the film industry and then transitioned into children’s book illustration. He also creates the large scale drawings shown above, which I assume are gallery pieces. For these, Fenton works initially in a detailed graphite drawing, then works over that in ink and acrylic or gouache.…
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Illustrator Shaun Tan Draws Conclusions on Spiegel Online
In a delightful twist on the usual interview format, Australian illustrator, author and concept artist Shaun Tan replies to a series of interview questions on Spiegel Online with pictures instead of words. The images have a little magnifier icon for viewing them larger. See my previous post on his beautiful wordless graphic story The Arrival.…