The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
- Andy Goldsworthy
Anything can be any color at any time depending on what color everything else is at the time.
- Keith Crown
 

 

Friday, September 30, 2005

Phillip Straub

Posted by Charley Parker at 7:40 am

Phillip Straub
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.

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Wally Torta’s Journal

Posted by Charley Parker at 7:45 am

Wally Torta
Wally Torta’s Journal is a wonderful sketchblog that ranges from simple and direct observations from everyday life to flights of fantasy to meeting doodles to cartoons and drawings in a style influenced by B. Kliban (one of my absolute favorite cartoonists). Most often, though, he seems to simply draw what’s in front of him. Worth checking back often.

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Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Dicebox

Posted by Charley Parker at 12:19 am

Dicebox
Jenn Manley Lee’s subtle, adult, character-driven science fiction web comic. It’s well written, well drawn and rendered in emotionally effective color palettes. The story deals with adult themes and is not for children. It’s also not for those who have a childish expectation of what science fiction (and science fiction comics) are about.

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Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Bill Mather

Posted by Charley Parker at 7:49 am

Bill Mather
Bill Mather does paintings and portraits of women in a variety of media. He also does landscapes in acrylic and oil. The site in includes a number of nice sketches, as well as pieces from figure drawing classes.

What I enjoy most, though, are his direct and lively portrait drawings.

 

Monday, September 26, 2005

Derek Thompson

Posted by Charley Parker at 7:23 am

Derek Thompson
Derek Thompson is a comics artist, storyboard artist and concept artist. Most of all though, he draws monsters. Big, little, scary, silly, weird and wild monsters. He even has a Monster of the Day feature and a Monster Vault.

The site also features a gallery of his professional work and a Sketchbook that happens to include some nice travel sketches.

Friday, September 23, 2005

Julian Beever

Posted by Charley Parker at 7:06 am

Julian Beever
Julian Beever is probably the best known practitioner of “Pavement Art”, highly rendered drawings on city sidewalks. Some of them are portraits or reproductions of old masters, but the most interesting are anamorphic distortions that, when viewed from a certain angle, give a striking illusion of 3 dimensionality. The technique is reminiscent of the old master trick of creating apparently distorted paintings that only assume proper appearance when viewed in the curved surface of a reflective vase or bowl.

Thursday, September 22, 2005

Kevin Nowlan

Posted by Charley Parker at 7:30 am

Kevin Nowlan
Lots of good-sized reproductions of Superman, Batman and Jack B. Quick art by this superb comics draughtsman. Click into Original Art for Sale to see some full pages of his inks over others’ pencils.

 
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

William Whitaker

Posted by Charley Parker at 8:57 am

William Whitaker
William Whitaker ia s contemporary American realist who paints mostly portraits and full length figures of women in a refined painterly technique. The paintings are sometimes accompanied by nice detail images. The galleries are somewhat awkwardly arranged but it’s worth clicking around. The Retrospective Galleries are kind of tucked away and they contain 50 works.

The site features several step-by-step painting demos as well as some notes on technique.

 
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