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After seeing Grant Snider's cute and clever illustrations pop up on a number of blogs, I was led to his site where I ended up spending a good part of my
Henry Darger (1892-1973) drew bright, inventive cartoon-like versions of a cosmic heaven and hell. The subject matter of Darger’s writing and art reveals an obsession with childhood and an unsettling fixation on young girls and their tortuous ordeals at the hands of men. Darger’s work is not easy to understand, asking for no sympathetic eye and … Continue reading "Henry Darger’s Blengiglomenean Serpents And Vivian Girls"
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“The Child’s Treasury” edited by May Hill. Literature for the child as part of the Foundation Desk Co. series. Copyrighted by W.F. Quarrie & Co, 1924. Illustrator unknown.
As a kid trying to learn to draw simple drawings fascinated me, which was why I love comic books. Another source that I copied over and over were the caricatures done of the cast of “My Fair Lady” by Hirschfied comics. Years later as my tastes matured, I found myself drawn to another artist who did the movie poster of the same play, using equally simple, clean drawings but put together with an amazing complexity: Bob Peak. Born in Colorado in l928, Peak was raised in Wichita. In college he studied Geology with an art minor, because of his doubts about making a living as an artist. But these doubts didn’t keep him from working part time in an art department and spending his own time doing illustrations for himself. After serving in the Navy in the Korean War he was accepted at Art Center in LA where he studied for the next two and half years. Then, with a family now, the Peaks headed east to NYC and the competitive world of commercial art. Advised to constrain his exuberant style Bob tried the controlled photographic approach to the work, but he was miserable. Deciding either to do things the way HE thought they should be done or to move back to LA, he and his wife burned everything he had drawn since moving to NYC. He started over, in his own style. Six weeks later he landed a major account for Old Hickory Whiskey and his work was on the back cover of Life, Look, and all the major magazines. His career was on the way. And what a career! There are over 100 movie posters (Camelot, Apocalypse Now, Star Trek, Pennies From Heaven); his portraits were regularly on the cover of Time and TV Guide; beside years of advertising and story illustrations he created a series of mural decorations for TWA; he created the Marlboro man; in l984 he was chosen to design a series of stamps for the Olympics - and a series of paintings to accompany them compiled in a book published by the US Postal Service. Mainstays of his work were always the deceptive simplicity of his drawing done with an astounding spontaneity in an incredibly complex design of shape and color. To create this effect in earlier works, he worked out very complete pencil comps and had large Photostats blown up, on which he painted directly, letting the pencil line show through. For his movie posters, he would often do preliminary drawings much tighter than the finish so that when he was working on the final product he could loosen up. His methods and techniques were astounding. He used oils, watercolor, acrylic, gauche, pencil, pastels - whatever it took to achieve the effect. His sense of design revolutionized the approach to the movie poster in the 70’s and 80’s. Looking over my tear sheet file to choose examples of Bob Peak’s work his incredible versatility kept jumping out at me. Even if you had no interest in art, whether you knew his name or not, you couldn’t avoid Bob Peak. He shaped the visual look of a generation. For those of you who are fans of Bob peak, his son Tom has produced one of the finest illustration books I've ever seen. This is a must for any of Bob's fans, and for any serious students of illustration. Check it out: http://www.bobpeak.com/bob-peak-book/ And speaking of another fine Arizona illustrator, my old friend Steve Rude is teaching a painting workshop. Steve's work speaks for itself, and I can't think of a better artist to have the chance to learn from. http://www.dillmans.com/dcaf/2012/steve-rude.html
The professional world is full of catchy metaphors for career growth. Check out this comic strip–what’s your path to career success!
When my exams were over, Tony announced that he was taking charge of my reading. Enough novels!
Julie Dillon is a freelance illustrator operating out of California and working for games like Fantasy Flight Games, Wizards of the Coast, Paizo Publishing, Tor Books and Penguin Books. She's been a nominee for the likes of Best Professional Art in the Hugo Awards and Best Artist in the World Fantasy Awards.
Introvert Debbie Tung is obsessed. With books, that is. That obsession became the inspiration for her new illustrated book, appropriately titled, Book Love.
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Illustrator and Comic Artist Gabriel Picolo. Gabriel Picolo is a famous comic artist and illustrator from Sao Paulo Brazil.
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Even though sorrow and hopelessness may describe some of Chiara Bautista’s fantastical scenes, they are still as beautiful as the most romantic love song.
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Introvert Debbie Tung is obsessed. With books, that is. That obsession became the inspiration for her new illustrated book, appropriately titled, Book Love.
