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Category: Pen & Ink

  • Eric Fraser

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    Eric Fraser was a 20th century British illustrator best known for his illustrations in Radio Times that spanned a run of over 40 years. Fraser also worked in many other venues, from book illustration to commercial art for advertising, His work is the subject of a retrospective at the Chris Beetles Gallery in London, that…

  • Tomislav Tomić

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    Tomislav Tomić is an illustrator from Croatia whose illustrations carry influences of both Golden Age illustration and Renaissance printmaking. Tomić works with technical pens (Rotring Isographs), adding color for some pieces with colored inks, watercolor and occasionally acrylics. There is a recent feature on his tools on The Tools Artists Use, which is where I…

  • Douglas Smith

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    There is something special about the appeal of scratchboard. In skilled hands it can combine some of the visual charm of woodcuts or engravings with the best characteristics of pen and ink. The work of Douglas Smith is a prime example of the medium’s strengths. Smith is an illustrator, originally from New York, who established…

  • Nicolas Delort

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    Nicolas Delort, a freelance illustrator based in Paris, creates wonderfully textural pen & ink (on scratchboard) illustrations that take inspiration from greats like Franklin Booth and Gustav Doré — with perhaps a bit of Joseph Clement Coll and Virgil Finlay thrown in for good measure. Delort’s website is essentially just a placeholder at the moment,…

  • All Over Coffee on The Rumpus

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    First of all, if you’re not familiar with Paul Madonna’s wonderful All Over Coffee, you may want to read my previous article on All Over Coffee, or my subsequent post on the second collection, Everything is its own reward, in which I struggle to find sufficient superlatives to describe the feature. Though ostensibly classified as…

  • Trail of Steel – 1441 A.D., Marcos Mateu-Mestre

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    The link between movies and comics is a strong one. Even without the obvious bridge of their wonderful merging in animation, they share numerous qualities. Both are visual storytelling mediums, and share a common concern with establishing shots, close-ups, framing a scene, conveying the spatial relationship of characters one to the other and other elements…