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Today's Inspiration

Today's Inspiration
Marilyn Conover was a very successful illustrator during the '60s and '70s. About four years ago, when she was 84, I interviewed her over the phone. Her frank, forthright and often intensely negative recollections of her career startled me. In all the interviews I'd conducted to that point (and since) I'd never encountered anything like it. My intention this week is not to cast a pall over a time many of us hold up as the last great era in illustration, but rather to honestly share a different perspective of someone who lived and worked in those times. For better or for worse here is Marilyn Conover; unvarnished, unsentimental, and unapologetic. ~ Leif

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Illustration Friday Blog Pick of the Week for STUFFED and This Week’s Topic Happy Illustration Friday! Please enjoy the wonderful illustration above by Mark Brown, our Pick of the Week for last week’s topic of STUFFED. Thanks to everyone who participated with drawings, paintings, sculptures, and more. We love seeing it all! You can see a gallery of ALL the entries here. portrety ślubne i konkubenckie ;) - spikselowani środa, 06 czerwca 2012 przyjaciele Joanny piątek, 25 maja 2012 przyjaciele Weroniki the art of iain mccaig O dear and patient people... I am sure, by now, that I have set the world record for the longest 'Coming Soon' website in web history. Should you pop on over to www.iainmccaig.com, you will find that it is still almost ready, a phenomenon that must be driving visitors almost as crazy as it is driving me (but not nearly as much as it is tormenting my saintly webmistress). I know this is where I should reveal the amazing secret behind the delay, but honestly, it's just because I keep choosing to do other things, like write a book, or design a movie, or play with my family (but not because of watching the TV--I got rid of that timesucker years ago). So, yes, Virginia, there will be a website.

Drawing books for the beginning student as well as more advanced. Good drawing books are not a substitute for actually putting pencil to paper and practising your drawing, however they can help keep us on the right track with information on techniques and different media. Featured here are books that I hope will inspire, inform and educate - and I've included books on art, painting and colour and I will be adding to the list all the time. Some books are practical how-to, others are inspirational and some are fiction that I've enjoyed and would like to share. Books are very personal and people get different things out of them and one’s person’s must-have is another’s worst nightmare.

lines and colors Fantasy Ink Frank Cho apesandbabes Liberty Meadows daily webcomic art blog forum is not available The road to mastering drawing starts here. There is often a mystery that clouds the visual arts with confusion and uncertainty. This is largely because most of us were never given serious art instruction in our childhood years. Jake Parker breaks down the fundamentals of basic drawing and cuts through the fog with so much clarity you'll be saying, "I could do that". This video takes you from simple line construction under-drawings all the way to solid render lines of objects and characters, including his famous "Space Skull!"

Community Gallery Community Gallery by Subverity View templeofphi1618 View Central Illustration Agency Everyone grew up with an idolised image of someone they wanted to be, right? I might've been misguided but mine was Johnny Bravo, the coolest guy on the TV set. Only probably was, no matter how much hair gel I used, my hair wouldn't quiff the same and I couldn't get the shades over my everyday, normal, stupid glasses.

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