Category: Illustration
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David Johnson
Illustrator David Johnson speaks in line. Wonderful contrasts of line, textural hatching, spotted blacks and occasionally color enliven his illustrations and incisive portraits. His compositions reveal a conscious arrangement of areas of the drawing as shapes — pictorial elements. Faces and figures, as well as background objects, are artfully arranged, and his layouts incorporate a…
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Sayaka Ouhito
Japanese artist Sayaka Ouhito is an illustrator, and perhaps a concept artist. I’m unsure about the latter as I can’t read Japanese and, save for this relatively uninformative interview, there seems to be very little information available about her in English. Other than that, I know little about her, just my own impressions of the…
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Figure Drawing for All it’s Worth, Andrew Loomis
When I was in my late teens, earnestly trying to learn the art and craft of comic book illustration, I stumbled across a find in the dusty shelves of a used bookstore that popped my eyes open and sent me home feeling like I had struck gold. It was a copy of Figure Drawing for…
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Carter Goodrich
Illustrator, author and character designer Carter Goodrich has a drawing a rendering style that is so springy, energetic and full of lively linework and color, that it’s just a complete joy to look through his portfolio. Even though his website has fairly extensive galleries of his book illustrations, New Yorker covers, editorial illustrations and character…
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MagazineArt.org
MagazineArt.org is a trove of magazine covers and advertising illustration from the decades around the turn of the 20th Century. Though a number of names of illustrators from that era have become familiar, many many more are still obscure, rarely featured or highlighted. The illustrations in the MagazineArt.org archives are heavy on the latter, light…
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Mattias Adolfsson (update)
Since I wrote about Mattias Adolfsson back in 2009, he has continued to fill his blog, Mattias Inks, with his marvelously whimsical illustrations, sketches, drawings and watercolors. They range from finished illustrations, a number of which are for Wired, through complex Moleskein drawings to simple but charming doodles. He has recently collected a variety of…