I found this book at the library, and thought I'd share some images from it. It's interesting because his work online is verry much in the Kent Williams / Frank Frazetta / Ashley Wood realm, and he has apparently worked for lucas arts and the like. Interesting to see how that translates into a kids book about cars.
Kind of really nice color and painting. I think the digital lettering works sometimes, and sometimes it doesn't. Once again, I'm unsure what medium he paints in, if it's acrylic or oil or what have you... u_u
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There are some really interesting examples of illustrations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. The first person to illustrate the character/stories was the artist Sidney Padget. I've heard various stories, such as at first Conan Doyle expected a different (less pretty) archetype for the character, and then decided that the Padget interpretation was fine. They also apparently mistook Sidney Padget for his brother, who was actually more famous at the time.
After Padget's illustrations, not many different stylistic archetypes have changed about the character, and you can definitely see his illustrations in the aesthetics many film adaptations of the stories. It's hard to say how much is due to the direction of the author's descriptions vs. the artist's interpretations though.
below are two Sidney Padget illustrations (along with some actors, etc.)
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** I don't know how many artists that I posted, but I just wanted to share a few more! :)
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This is another of my favorite artists, a japanese illustrator/comickeer. He's most famous for writing and illustrating Tekkon Kinkreet (Black & White), a comic about two rebellious street kids, which was eventually turned into a movie.
I'm still not sure if comic artists count, but I think his design and other senses are still really important to look at, even for non-comic narrative illustration. Everything from his covers, characters, storytelling, colors and line & drawings sense is really great. I'm sorry my scans are so bad!!
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This is a bit of an "out of the box" topic, but I wanted to share two of my favorite artists/designers, Peter Mendelsund, a graphic designer known for his book covers (If you've heard of Vertical inc., he took the place of Chipp Kidd as essentially their in-house designers), and Osamu Tezuka, a comic/cartooning master from japan (Astro Boy, Black Jack, etc).
Vertical is a NYC based publishing firm who have been publishing various "alternative" and "old school" manga in the past several years. Pairing classic 60's-70's manga like Osamu Tezuka's work with such radical modern design sense as Chipp Kidd and Peter Mendelsund leads to some really amazing must-have books.
On hand, I have two of Osamu Tezuka's Black Jack comics to share, and then I've included some LQ images from the internet of some other work.
Osamu Tezuka is known for a lot of things ("the father of manga"), but he has a
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Mary Beth Owens is an author as well as an illustrator. In the library I found an interesting book of hers all about carribou.
She works traditionally, I'm assuming watercolor but I couldn't find out for sure. What I love about these is the delicate paint and patterning around the letters, and also the light narrative. She does a great job of illustrating an alphabet while still making things both legible, having a narrative, and engaging at the same time. Her paintings are very beautiful. She doesn't focus on alphabet drawings, but does more traditionally narrative work as well.
You can find more info about her books here: http://www.jacketflap.com/mary-beth-owens/106475
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I'm a big fan of cats. Bigger than expected because I got weirdly drawn to all the strange drawings of cats in this book (and a few others which I haven't got the chance to scan yet)
These cats are from Martin Leman's book "Twelve Cats for Christmas". He's a british painter and illustrator, primarily of cats. He really likes painting cats.
I found the paintings of cats in his book very funny and playful. They have a very strong folk art feel. I choose to hi-light this illustrator primarily because I find his cat paintings really interesting. He isn't specific with his paint media in his online presence, although he has is an "Associate of the Royal Watercolour Society".
You can find more pictures of cats (and a few other works) on his website: http://www.martinleman.co.uk/
ps: if I get the chance, I will scan some more of the cat books I found! Because I love cats!!!!!!!
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I looked in the library for interesting children's book illustrators, this is work by Stepan Zavrel.
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There are many interesting websites on her work, and also the Moomin books (published by Drawn and Quarterly) are all at the MICA Library, so check 'em out!
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Jules Feiffer is an american ilustrator, he's most known for his illustrations of the Phantom Tollbooth I think. He also does his own writing & illustration for some stories, and does some sassy cartoons.
He's got a really great sense of humor. Also he definitely really influenced me artistically and maybe mentally as a child, so I thought I should share some of his work, since it was important to me at that time.
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Her technique and characters are very interesting, combining the nostalgic sensibilities of extremely girly 70's manga/comics and girl/"pink" toy design (Rainbow Brite, My Little Pony) with a very dark story telling and character development. Though her drawings may look straight out of a 70s or 80s hasbro toy commercial, the stories she tells tend towards being very graphic & somewhat dark, but satirical as well. Light hearted Sex, death (murder), zombies, cannibalism, torture etc.
I think one of her strongest aspects is her character design. Her story telling is very good also- and she does both write and illustrate her works. She works in a variety of media, I know at least acrylic and digital.
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winnie the pooh illustration by EH Shepard
i love how simple yet poet and child-like these illustrations are. they're so simple yet capture such a simple innocence of childhood.
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