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By: Bowie Style,
on 10/12/2016
I came across the work of French artist Hector Dexet again (after featuring a print back in 2013) whilst on holiday in Bologna last month. I saw his books in many of the city's bookshops and they looked fabulous with their simple graphic images. Hector is based in Paris and has been working in design and illustration since graduating 2009. He has produced lots of great children's books largely
By: Bowie Style,
on 10/12/2016
Kirsten Sevig is an artist /designer/ illustrator/ pattern painter based in Minneapolis, MN where she works in a stripey studio that she has dubbed the 'Striped Pear Studio'. Kirsten loves creating patterns and products and has recently designed and produced a couple of notecard sets for her new Striped Pear Studio brand. Featuring her lovely hand painted patterns they are now available in her
By: Bowie Style,
on 10/7/2016
We finish the week as we began it, with a look at some of the latest arrivals at Marks & Spencer. Here we have a selection of prints from their wall art department starting with these striking prints : bright birdie bouquet and painted butterfly, sadly by an unnamed artist. Also shown are colourful abstracts plus some smart type and geomtrics from Marks & Spencer's collaboration with Conran.
By: Bowie Style,
on 10/6/2016
Super talented designer and illustrator Louise Lockhart has 10% off of everything in her shop throughout October so this gives me a lovely excuse to showcase some her wonderful work. Louise produces her designs under the label The Printed Peanut all goods are proudly made n the UK. Products in her online shop include notebooks, cards, mugs, plates, books and bags. Use the coupon code '
By: Bowie Style,
on 10/5/2016
This month sees the re-issue of six Virginia Woolf books by Penguin Classics - all with stunning covers by artist Aino-Maija Metsola. Aino-Maija is best know for her work with Marimekko and for her bold use of colour and painterly patterns. Available from 6th October in good bookshops and see them online here at Amazon.
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By: andrea joseph,
on 10/5/2016
By: Tim Bowers,
on 10/2/2016
A new book just hit the shelves, last week. Buddy's Bedtime Battery by Chirstina Geist (published by Random House) is my latest book and I want to take you behind the pages to see how the project progressed.
By: Amy Schimler,
on 10/1/2016
It's a good news day! My artwork for this past July cover for Cricket Magazine was chosen for their 2017 calendar! Woo hoo! #grateful
By: Jennifer Zivoin,
on 9/30/2016
Check out my artwork in the newest issue of "Ladybug" magazine! I had so much fun imagining the details for these illustrations.
By: Jerry Beck,
on 9/28/2016
The animation community has been creating fantastic cartoons and caricatures of this year's goofball presidential candidates.
The post How Animation Artists See Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton appeared first on Cartoon Brew.
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By: Amy Schimler,
on 9/21/2016
I received a "flood" of books this week. Flood Warning published by Harper Collins.
By: Brian Bowes,
on 9/15/2016
By: Bowie Style,
on 9/15/2016
Another of my Bologna discoveries was this book L'Avventura Atomica (Atomic Adventure) illustrated by London based designer Ben Newman. This is the latest title in his series The Professor Astro Cat a series of children's books created with his longtime friend and scientist, Dr Dominic Walliman. Ben's pervious clients have included No Brow, The Tate, Selfridges and Magma. Below are some snaps
By: Bowie Style,
on 9/14/2016
Next we have some more snapshots of Italian books to post today featuring covers and illustrations that caught my eye in the shops of Bologna. This selection are all children's books and were mostly spotted in Feltrinelli and Libreria Coop.
By: Paula Pertile,
on 9/13/2016
By: Jennifer Zivoin,
on 9/9/2016
Hi everyone! Check out MB Artists' new promotional catalog, themed "Landscape." What a great collection of new pieces from this group of artists!
By: Bernhard Oberdieck,
on 9/9/2016
By: Amy Schimler,
on 9/6/2016
I mentioned recently that I had been wrapping up illustrations for a children's book which I have been working on most of this past year. This project has been a labor of love and one of my favorite projects to date. It is published by Eerdman's Books for Young Readers and the title is Hidden City. A release date is yet to be determined as the book is being finalized.
This is the first of a series of sneak peeks and posts about the process I used in illustrating this book leading up to it's release. Eerdman's is a dream publishing house to work with. At every turn they are so supportive to the illustrator's process and have come back with thoughtful and intelligent feedback. It has been a true creative collaboration. The book is a collection of image rich poems written by Sarah Tuttle about nature hidden in urban environments. To tell you this has been fun to illustrate would be an understatement!
Here are a couple of sketches and the progress to full color. I am just showing cropped illustrations, not the full page illustrations yet.
This first illustration is a poem about bats hunting moths at night under a streetlamp. Here are my pencil sketches that I scanned into my computer.
By: andrea joseph,
on 9/6/2016
By: Ryan Loghry,
on 8/19/2016
Howdy friends and neighbors!
The style this new client is asking for is pen and ink, like comic book art. I started using Photoshop brushes (which would have been ideal if they worked right). But I was never able to achieve the same results in the computer as real ink on real paper. After a couple of days of research I decided to delve into inking with a brush. I bought the supplies, and spent literally a couple of months trying to master a skill that takes years to hone. Not surprisingly I came up short of perfection (in my opinion). After working out the cramps in my drawing hand I switched to ink pens. There is still a problem of having to clean up the lines (removing the white of the page so I can color it). It is a time consuming process. Although I was able to reduce my clean up time dramatically with some help from my friend Matt Strieby (Matt also helped provide me with the tools I have needed to keep my work going. Thanks Matt, I owe you a lot buddy).
The drawing you see here of Chip was done with Micron Pens on Pentalic Paper for Pens. Then I scanned it, and in Photoshop (using the new selection tools they have) separated the lines from the page. Then I painted underneath the lines on a separate layer. I did this drawing to test out the new Micron pens and to practice cross hatch shading. I hope in the next couple days to post a black and white coloring page version of this art to TheSearchersWorld.com, and to The Searcher by Ryan Loghry on FB.
It has been a summer of learning, and struggling, and in the end success which is what we all strive for right? I hope you have enjoyed this post, and the drawing of our hero Chip. Thank you for stopping by. God bless, and have a terrific day.
By: Ryan Loghry,
on 8/19/2016
Howdy friends and neighbors!
The style this new client is asking for is pen and ink, like comic book art. I started using Photoshop brushes (which would have been ideal if they worked right). But I was never able to achieve the same results in the computer as real ink on real paper. After a couple of days of research I decided to delve into inking with a brush. I bought the supplies, and spent literally a couple of months trying to master a skill that takes years to hone. Not surprisingly I came up short of perfection (in my opinion). After working out the cramps in my drawing hand I switched to ink pens. There is still a problem of having to clean up the lines (removing the white of the page so I can color it). It is a time consuming process, although with some help from my friend Matt Strieby I was able to reduce my time spent cleaning up dramatically.
The drawing you see here of Chip was done with Micron Pens on Pentalic Paper for Pens. Then I scanned it, and in Photoshop (using the new selection tools they have) separated the lines from the page. Then I painted underneath the lines on a separate layer. I did this drawing to test out the new Micron pens and to practice cross hatch shading. I hope in the next couple days to post a black and white coloring page version of this art to TheSearchersWorld.com, and to The Searcher by Ryan Loghry on FB.
It has been a summer of learning, and struggling, and in the end success which is what we all strive for right? I hope you have enjoyed this post, and the drawing of our hero Chip. Thank you for stopping by. God bless, and have a terrific day.
By: Paula Pertile,
on 8/16/2016
By: Amy Schimler,
on 8/10/2016
By: Jerry Beck,
on 8/9/2016
Corel has added significant improvements to the 2017 edition of its digital paint software Painter.
The post Texture Painting, Glazing Brushes, Customizability Among New Features in Corel Painter 2017 appeared first on Cartoon Brew.
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By: Amy Schimler,
on 8/6/2016
Here is another link for the article in Wine & Spirits Magazine.
