Saturday, 24 December 2011
Sunday, 18 December 2011
Friday, 16 December 2011
Kinuko Craft
Kinuko Y. Craft (born 1940) is a Japanese-born American contemporary painter, illustrator and fantasy artist.
Chesley Awards and Isis
I just learned about Chesley Awards. Here I am, 42, wannabe-illustrator for Fantasy and SciFi, and I just learned about Chesley Awards - and ASFA, too... I feel kind of stupid, but - better late than never, huh?
I was looking at Omar Rayyan pictures, and I found his "Favorite" that was "a potential nominee for best unpublished color work"
I love Omar Rayyan...
Anyway, I stumbled over this page (potential nominees...) and started looking into it, and found out that there is a Chesley Award blah blah blah.
Now, first on the page is Isis by Daren Bader.
Looks really nice at first glance, but... I don't like it. It's a bit too... Just... doesn't work for me. So I went for looking at other things he has done, found his blog, and then I found this...
So, of course I went to look up Steve Huston and his sketchbooks... Ah.
It's lovely to see a sketchbook that's just as crowded and messy as mine :-D Of course, I'm not even close to this quality, but... I will be. In some 20 years or so :-D
If you look at all four pictures, you'll see yourself what's wrong with Isis. It's so finished it's dead.
I was looking at Omar Rayyan pictures, and I found his "Favorite" that was "a potential nominee for best unpublished color work"
Anyway, I stumbled over this page (potential nominees...) and started looking into it, and found out that there is a Chesley Award blah blah blah.
Now, first on the page is Isis by Daren Bader.
Nice...
If you look at all four pictures, you'll see yourself what's wrong with Isis. It's so finished it's dead.
I like this Isis by Willow Arlenea...
and this, by Kinuko Craft... I really need to give her an own entry.
Monday, 12 December 2011
Selene and Endymion
Yes, they managed to depict young, beautiful men too in "interesting" situations "in the name of art and culture". Selene/Diana and Endymion is GREEK myth, it cannot be but proper and decent! :-D
Annibale Carracci
Johann Grund
Stefano Torelli
Ubaldo Gandolfi
Sebastiano Ricci
Pierre-Paul Prud’hon
Anne-Louis Girodet
Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
This is his Iris and Morpheus:
Jérôme-Martin Langlois
George Frederic Watts
Simon Solomon
Edward John Poynter
Victor Florence Pollet
Walter Crane
Edmund Dulac
Karl Briullov
Friday, 9 December 2011
Errol Le Cain
Errol Le Cain (1941–1989) was a British animator and children's book illustrator.
I adore the little vignettes he puts around the pictures, borders, little details, funny little surprises and gifts sprinkled all over the work, which would be quite enough as it is...
I adore the little vignettes he puts around the pictures, borders, little details, funny little surprises and gifts sprinkled all over the work, which would be quite enough as it is...
Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne; How Well We Suit Each Other
I wonder if there's a political message somewhere... Who are these owls supposed to be?