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Category: Sketching

  • Sketches from Richard Solomon artists

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    I’ve written previously about a number of illustrators who are represented by Richard Solomon, a well known artists representative in New York whose list of represented artists reads like a who’s who of the top names in contemporary illustration. In addition to the portfolios of represented artists on the Richard Solomon website (for which I’ll…

  • Nina Johansson

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    Swedish artist, designer and teacher Nina Johansson subtitles her website “Because drawing is good for you”, and its pages are filled with the ripe, healthy fruit of that philosophy, lots of wonderful drawings, sketches and watercolors. Johansson seems to take as her favorite subject that most perfect of all drawing subjects — what’s in front…

  • Wil Freeborn

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    Wil Freeborn is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Glasgow, Scotland. Though his professional portfolio focuses on his (quite nice) graphic design rather than illustration, his blog features a number of wonderful sketches. These are of a variety of subjects — cafe and store interiors, schoolrooms, townscapes, landscapes and a particularly nice series of…

  • Pete Scully

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    One of the things that art does best it to make the ordinary extraordinary. By focusing attention on commonplace objects artists can reveal them in ways that make us see them anew. I was amused and delighted by Pete Scully’s series of 50 drawings of fire hydrants, standpipes, water tanks, meters and even a water…

  • Rob Carey

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    Rob Carey is an American school teacher living in Kandern, Germany. He frequently sketches the area around where he lives as well as chronicling his travels to other locations around Germany and trips back to the U.S. Carey is a contributor to the Urban Sketchers community blog (see my posts about Urban Sketchers, and here).…

  • Pencil vs. Camera (Ben Heine)

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    Pencil vs. Camera is project by Belgian painter, illustrator, caricaturist and photographer Ben Heine, in which he draws part of a scene, usually in a fanciful interpretation of it, and then takes a photograph of the drawing held up against the original scene or photograph. The drawing is usually on a ragged-edged, odd shaped piece…