Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Oliver Bonhomme

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    Oliver Bonhomme is a French illustrator and art director with a long client list that inludes le Monde, the New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Apple and numerous others. His illustrations look at first to be high in chroma, but then you realize the colors are not actually that intense, but are made to…

  • Angela Hao

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    Angela Hao lives and works in the U.S., but makes virtual visits to Japan via Google Street view, capturing the charm of small, quirky storefronts in digital ink and watercolor style illustrations she creates in Procreate. These are delightlfully whimsical and take note of the small details that give each little store its own personality.…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Mucha’s The Seasons: Spring

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    Alphonse Mucha, who is the most widely recognized figure of the style we know as Art Nouveau, at one time called “Le style Mucha”, created three series of posters in which he portrayed the fourseasons as young women surrounded by elements associated with the season. This is his interpretaion of Spring from the first of…

  • Loïc Jouannigot

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    Loïc Jouannigot is a French illustrator with a charming children’s book style. The drawing style is both precise and loose, with a pleasantly sketchy quality. There is much attention to detail, and in some cases complex scenes and environments. Some are cut-aways, always a fun element, and many are populated with multiple animal characters. The…

  • Yu Qiuyang

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    Yu Qiuyang is a Chinese concept artist and illustrator, working digitally in Photoshop and Maya. Throughout the work I’ve seen there is an interesting interplay between light and dark themes, the latter often punctuated with a pool of lighter color. The subjects are primarily fantasy oriented, with a particular emphasis on what appears to be…

  • Anton Hartinger

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    19th century Austrian artist Anton Hartinger was noted for his still life paintings of fruit and flowers, and also was a botanical illustrator. He was responsible for a noted work titled Endlicher’s Paradisus Vindobonensis (Endlicher’s Viennese Paradise – link is to the book reproduction on plantillustrations.org), consisting of handpainted prints (“chromolithographs”) of his botanical illustrations…