Lines and Colors

Lines and Colors is a blog about painting, drawing, sketching, illustration, comics, cartoons, webcomics, art history, concept art, gallery art, digital art, artist tools and techniques, motion graphics, animation, sci-fi and fantasy illustration, paleo art, storyboards, matte painting, 3d graphics and anything else I find visually interesting. If it has lines and/or colors, it’s fair game.

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Steve Mumford

October 7, 2005

Steven Mumford is a New York artist who has made several trips to Iraq during the war and recorded his observations in a series of remarkable pen, inkwash and watercolor drawings. The images range from intimate portraits of soldiers to battlefield scenes to pictures of the local citizens who were much less reluctant to pose for an artist’s pen than they might have been for a reporter’s camera.

This posting of his Baghdad Journal is part of the Artnet online magazine. The drawings are beautiful, scary, immediate and revealing in a way photographs couldn’t be. The work has now been collected in a book published by Drawn and Quarterly.

www.artnet.com/magazine/features/baghdadjournal.asp

Categories:
Drawing, Sketching
Alex Ross

October 6, 2005

Ask comics fans about Alex Ross and you’ll get mixed but strong opinions. Many think his highly rendered watercolor and gouache comic illustrations “inappropriate” for comics storytelling, others find his work exciting and beautiful. I fall into the latter camp and have a tremendous respect for his water media technique. I also have no problem with his extensive use of photographic models. I feel that practice falls squarely in the tradition of great comic illustrators like Hal Foster, Alex Raymond and Al Williamson. Much of the most interesting art is to be found in the Ross Report newsletter section of the site.

www.alexrossart.com/

Categories:
Comics, Illustration, Painting
Practical Painting

October 5, 2005

This is an unpretentious little how-to artists magazine created by an individual artist (identified only as “Denise”). The site features compact, informative articles on art technique and tool basics such as choosing canvas, colors and brushes. Her “What Paint Colors do I Need” article, for example, is a quick introduction to choosing a split-primary color palette. The site also includes interviews with working artists and articles about Art Nouveau and the Pre-Raphaelites. There is also a good list of online museums.

www.practicalpainting.com/

Categories:
Drawing, Painting, Tools and Techniques
Chet Phillips

October 4, 2005

Chet Phillips is an illustrator who does what he terms “Digital Scratchboard” in Corel Painter. His colorful images of animals (mostly domestic) and other subjects have an eye-pleasing freshness and energy.

www.chetart.com/gal.html

Categories:
Digital Painting, Illustration
Artistic Interpretation of Literary Figures

October 3, 2005

This is an individual’s collection of art, mostly by comics artists, on the theme of lilterary figures. It includes drawings and paintings that offer the artist’s interpretation of literary characters, as well as portraits of writers (and occasionally artists). (The image shown is a portrait of Dante Gabriel Rosetti by Barry Windsor Smith.) The site is part of the Digital Medusa site that hosts several other collections of comic art.

www.digitalmedusa.com/sgettis/roughed_lit.html

Categories:
Comics, Illustration
Phillip Straub

September 30, 2005

Phillip Straub is a concept artist and illustrator who works primarily digitally. His style ranges from dark and moody sci-fi game concept art to candy-colored children’s illustration.

www.philipstraub.com

Categories:
Concept & Visual Dev., Digital Painting, Illustration