Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Pen & Ink

  • Scott McKowen

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    Well, my friends, here is yet another tantalizingly different artist about whom I could find very little information without having to dig. I first encountered Scott McKowen’s work in the form of his wonderful set of covers for the Marvel Comics limited series 1602 (in which Marvel superheroes are envisioned in that time period, and…

  • J.J. Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gèrard)

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    How cool would it be if we could actually see the whole intricate pattern of the influences of one artist on another that make up the brilliant, if ragged, cloth of art history. The best any one individual can hope for is glimmers and flashes of interconnectedness where the pattern reveals a small portion of…

  • James Akers

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    I’m constantly amazed at the way in which we, as artists, allow ourselves to be locked into restrictive little boxes by accepting and participating in an unspoken hierarchy of the artistic value of different genres of visual arts. Those in the fine arts community, even within all of the strata it contains, look down on…

  • Steve Canyon original art

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    Most art done specifically for reproduction, whether it’s illustration, cartoons or comics, is drawn or painted at a different size than the printed piece, usually a bit larger. In the case of American comic books, it’s ordinarily about 1 1/2 times the printed size, but for newspaper strips it’s often 2 x the printed size…

  • Franklin Booth

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    Franklin Booth owed his amazing style of pen and ink drawing to ignorance. Booth was one of the greatest American illustrators and one of the absolute masters of pen and ink drawing. His style was the result of an isolated childhood on an Indiana farm and an innocent ignorance of the printing technology of his…

  • Milton Caniff

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    It’s hard to imagine these days, but newspaper comics were once a place where adventure reigned. Alongside genuinely funny humor strips (also hard to imagine in this day of watered-down, milquetoast comics pages where blandness seems a requirement), there were wonderful adventure comics, like Prince Valiant, Tarzan, Flash Gordon, Rip Kirby, Wash Tubbs, Buzz Sawyer,…