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Category: Illustration

  • Even more Leyendecker wonderfulness, in high resolution no less

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    Wow. Good week for J.C. Leyendecker fans. If my post last Sunday about the Leyendecker studies on David Apatoff’s Illustration Art blog weren’t enough, we now have a wonderful post about J.C. Leyendecker by illustrator Scott Anderson, in which he posts a number of images of a few Leyendecker originals that he had the opportunity…

  • Zita the Spacegirl (Ben Hatke)

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    Ben Hatke’s charmingly whimsical comics character Zita the Spacegirl first appeared as a webcomic and then in print in Flight Explorer, a small volume published in 2008 as a kid-focused companion to the Flight comics anthologies, to which Hatke also contributed. Zita went on hiatus for some time, leaving those of us who enjoyed her…

  • More J.C. Leyendecker on Illustration Art

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    Long time readers of Lines and Colors will know that J.C. Leyendecker is one of my favorite illustrators, and I’m always happy to share Leyendecker resources on the web when I come across them. Illustrator Chris Sheban, who I wrote about here, was kind enough to let me know about an older post on David…

  • William Stout: Inspirations

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    I am unabashed in my enthusiasm for the work of William Stout, and I’ve written about him previously several times here on Lines and Colors (links below). In particular, I take great delight in his beautiful drawings in pen and ink with watercolor. I’ve been looking forward to the release of William Stout: Inspirations from…

  • Chris Turnham (update)

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    The good new is that since I last wrote about Chris Turnham back in 2006 his website has been updated with more of his wonderfully graphic, superbly designed and beautifully colored illustrations. The bad news is that, for reasons that continue to elude me, they are displayed in a “pop-up-and-close” style navigation from a scrolling…

  • Mailbag Art Museum (Sarah Musi)

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    Sarah Musi, an illustrator and comics artist based in Washington State, has come up with one of those “don’t you wish you had thought of it” ideas, and recently embarked on a project she calls “mailbag art museum“. In August of this year Musi created a list of her “favorite artists in the whole wide…