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Category: Sketching

  • Larry Roibal’s six years of newspaper sketches

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    For the past six years, illustrator Larry Roibal has been sketching on the pages of his morning newspaper — drawing portraits of politicians, world leaders, entertainers, sports figures and other newsworthy individuals directly on sections of newspaper articles about them, and then publishing the sketches to his blog. Roibal has collected all 1550 of his…

  • François Guerin

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    François Guerin is a French UI designer, art director and digital artist who likes to paint and sketch on his mobile devices, using Brushes for iPhone and Procreate for iPad. You can see his work in his Flickr set, a smaller set on Coroflot and prints on society6. [Via @ParkaBlogs]

  • Janet Hamlin

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    Janet Hamlin is an illustrator whose clients include Time Warner, Universal Studios, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, IBM, HarperCollins and Associated Press. She is also a courtroom sketch artist. The latter role is one of those fascinating areas in which photography has not replaced drawing as a form of reporting, primarily because cameras…

  • Urban Sketchers blog turns 5

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    The Urban Sketchers blog, which I first wrote about in 2008, just marked its 5th anniversary (the corresponding Flickr group is about a year older). There are sketches from contributors around the world to this blog, the tagline of which is: “See the world one drawing at a time”. In addition to pencils, pens, markers…

  • Rémi Maynégre

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    French illustrator and comics artist Rémi Maynégre traveled to Japan on his honeymoon, and documented the trip in a series of beautiful watercolor sketches. He has collected some of these into two books, with a third underway. Both of the existing books have been given graphical reviews on Parka Blogs: Voyage au Japon, Tome 1:…

  • Drawn the Road Again (Chandler O'Leary)

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    Drawn the Road Again is a sketch blog by Chandler O’Leary in which she chronicles her travels in the form of line and watercolor drawings in Moleskein sketchbooks. I like the range of subjects and viewpoints in her observations, and the feeling of immediacy in her apporach. O’Leary is an illustrator and lettering artist who…