Comments on: Jean-Baptiste Monge

By: Jennifer Oliver

Jennifer Oliver — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 07:13:08 +0000

I’ve recently posted an interview in English with Jean-Baptiste Monge, for all those who are interested:
http://characterdesignnotes.blogspot.com/2010/12/interview-with-jean-baptiste-monge-part.html

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:59:30 +0000

My pleasure, Ed. Other readers who like Monge's work will be interested in Ed Binkley's illustrations, and my post on Ed Binkley.

By: Ed Binkley

Ed Binkley — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:46:02 +0000

Wow. Beautiful work. Thanks for posting it.

By: big fan

big fan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:37:24 +0000

I can’t speak english well enough.
I just want to draw your attention to the sign of Rien Poortvliet.
And thank you for posting this.

By: Frank P. Ordaz

Frank P. Ordaz — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:21:02 +0000

Thank You for posting. You are right, he does have a spirit of the 19th century which adds to the depth of his illustrations and harkens to s time when draughtsmanship was valued.

By: Brian Busch

Brian Busch — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:58:55 +0000

Thanks for posting this. I found his site through Gurney’s blog and I now check back often for inspiration. I too prefer his work to Froud’s (which I do like very much) When you compared him to Illustrators of the Golden Age, I think you nailed it on the head. Keep up the great work here, I check it everyday before heading into the studio to work.
Cheers.

By: Steven King

Steven King — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:39:22 +0000

Learned of this site through Mike Kaluta’s forum. So glad I did..the images are fantastic!

By: Colin Peters

Colin Peters — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:32:02 +0000

My high-school French grades were… poor, to say the least, but I think “A la Recherche de FÃ©erie” could be translated as “On Faeries” or even the rather prosaic “Fairy Research” (literally “On the research of faeries”). I think it might be a play on the well known “A la Recherche du Temps Perdu” which usually gets translated, loosely, as “Remembrance of Things Past”.

Which is neither here nor there, really. The pictures are lovely.

Thanks for the great posts, and every day, too! I don’t know how you do it.