Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Pen & Ink

  • Joe Ciardiello

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    Sometimes there is a fine line, if you’ll excuse the expression, between drawing and painting. Illustrator Joe Ciardiello manages to walk on both sides of that line at will by developing his color work out of his black and white drawing style. His black and white drawings have a wonderfully loose and lively line quality,…

  • Aubrey Beardsley

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    For an artist intimately fascinated with line, Aubrey Beardsley walked many of them himself. He walked a line between sickness and health, suffering from tuberculosis as a child and facing repeated bouts of ill-health before succumbing to it at the age of 25. His ink drawings, illustrations and prints walked the line between drawing, design…

  • Howard Pyle

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    If we look at art over the course of time, we see an intricate web of the influences of one artist on another; influences that, in their crossings and re-crossings, eventually weave the tapestry of styles that we call art history. Howard Pyle, who is often rightly called “The Father of American Illustration”, is one…

  • Frazer Irving

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    Frazer Irving is a British comics artist who has done work for UK titles like 2000 AD and Judge Death as well as working for American companies like DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics and Wizards of the Coast. He cites his influences as mostly comics and British TV (“…a never ending assault of sci-fi, horror,…

  • Daren Bader

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    How’s this for a transition, from yesterday’s post about eye-placement in portraits to today’s illustration of a cyclops. (What’s that saying? “In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed, giant-tusked, white veined, maniacal, rampaging cyclops is king.”?… or something like that…) Daren Bader is a fantasy illustrator who, among other projects, does a number of…

  • Sir John Tenniel

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    John Tenniel is best known (and rightly so) for his beautiful, imaginative, definitive and absolutely perfect pen and ink illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass: And What Alice Found There. Though many illustrators have done their versions of Alice (see Lauren Harmon’s lists of Alice Illustrators, and the…