Category: Sketching
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Kerr Eby
For the benefit of those in other parts of the world, I’ll point out that today is Veterans Day here in the U.S., a day set aside to honor those who have given or risked their lives, endured hardships and put themselves in the service of their country in military service. The same date, November…
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SketchCrawl 20
As I noted when I first wrote about it back in 2005, SketchCrawl is a series of outdoor group drawing events, originally conceived by Pixar artist and illustrator Enrico Casarosa, as the artistic equivalent of a pubcrawl (seem my post on Enrico Casarosa, and here). He started to organize the events ahead of time, in…
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Susan Rudat
Susan Rudat is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator based in Texas. On both her blog and her Flickr gallery she often posts drawings and sketches done in Molekine sketchbooks. Some of her drawings have a nicely graphic quality, as if designed to be woodcuts, with bold areas of black and carefully designed patterns of…
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David Lloyd
David Lloyd is self-taught as an artist. Born in Virginia and raised in Houston, he studied Drama, English Literature and Philosophy at the University of Houston. Lloyd has developed a style that wavers between painterly realism and a graphic feeling that recalls the modernist influenced styles of mid-20th century illustrators like Al Parker. Lloyd works…
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Simon Otto
Though there aren’t many pieces available online, the variety of subject, medium and approach, and the high quality of each, make the sketchblog of Simon Otto well worth a visit. Otto’s blog is actually just excerpts from his contributions to insert name here, a group blog he shares with several other talented artists, who, like…
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Chris Ware – The Acme Novelty Date Book Volume Two
Chris Ware, who I wrote about here and here, has just released The Acme Novelty Date Book, Volume Two: 1995-2000. For those of you who are only familiar with Ware’s precise, carefully controlled marvels of precision comic art, these two volumes are something else altogether. Basically they’re sketchbooks, not that different in essence from sketchbooks…