Paint like Arthur Rackham, with Sean Andrew Murray | Photoshop tutorial | Page 4 Profile Sean Andrew Murray Url Biography Sean is the principal concept artist at Big Huge Games/38 Studios and a freelance illustrator. All artists should look beyond themselves and their contemporaries for inspiration, both in subject matter and in technique. I love line work, so it's no wonder that Rackham is one of my all-time favourite illustrators from the early 20th century. Rackham's work was a big part of how I developed my own traditional and digital painting techniques, all of which rely heavily on good drawing and well executed line work. His style blended whimsical playfulness with dark foreboding, as seen in his many depictions of faeries, witches and enchanted forests. His flowing, expressive line work complemented his subdued and often desaturated colour palettes to create an ethereal, dream-like quality that's instantly recognisable. To achieve this look, I'll start by looking to Rackham’s biggest source of inspiration: nature.
Movie: Eindhoven design studio Formafantasma experimenting with lava Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our next movie from Eindhoven, Simone Farresin and Andrea Trimarchi of Formafantasma show us their experiments with unusual materials including fish skin, cow bladders, animal blood and even lava. Italian designers Farresin and Trimarchi, who met at Design Academy Eindhoven and set up Formafantasma in the small Dutch city after graduating, have become well-known for their interesting use of materials. Past projects include objects made out of food, a range of natural plastic vessels and furniture covered with discarded animal skins. The duo's latest project involves melting down volcanic rock from Mount Etna in Sicily. "We are conducting some really simple experiments by remelting lava," Farresin tells us when we visited their studio during Dutch Design Week. "We are working with basalt fibres, which is this really interesting material that we found. He then shows us fish skin samples from Formafantasma's Craftica project for Fendi.
It is Not Escher’s Hands South African artist Jono Dry makes a beautiful tribute to M.C. Escher, by drawing his own hand and his mother’s in this art piece titled “Creation.” His other detailed work includes eye studies and a water splash named Fibonacci (a mathematical sequence), which the latter took 280 hours to illustrate in a 5 month period. Artwork © Jono Dry » Events 10^10 10^10 participates in group traveling exhibit Our Stories, Our Voices with a collective participatory project titled 10X10, A Table. 12/3 – 12/30/11 – The Asheville Art Council at The Artery 3/1-3/30/12 – UNC Asheville, Highsmith Union Gallery * The exhibit/performance/drawing is scheduled to happen again at Enka High School Media Center from 6-8 p.m. on April 12 Let us know if you want to participate. If you immigrated from another country and want to draw or make music with us, let us know. Please email Martha Skinner at skinnermartha@gmail.com The project is a collective drawing performed and created at the opening of Our Stories/Our Voices Exhibit. Through drawing and music, the most basic cross-cultural mediums of communication, the immigrant artists share collective memory of transformation to reveal a permanent layered image of their emerging faces. Thanks to all who participated! Thanks to Doug Hecker for photographing the event. Check out the time-lapse of the emerging drawing
Blog Archive » Frank Frazetta | Sketches & Line Drawings Posted: February 13th, 2011 | Author: doug | Filed under: Painting I prefer Frazetta’s drawings over his finished paintings. There is a responsive fast economical feel to his drawings and sketches, a lightness while still retaining that supple line. Sketch by Frank Frazetta Caveman Sketch by Frank Frazetta Tags: Frank Frazetta, sketch | 3 Comments »
Home | Kikyz1313 The Golden Age of Illustration: Arthur Rackham Arthur Rackham (1867–1939), self-portrait. The first two decades of the 20th century have become known as the Golden Age of Illustration, when improvements in printing technology allowed publishers to produce lavish colour illustrations for the first time. Of all the artists who became famous in this period, by far the most popular was Arthur Rackham, who still maintains his hold over the public imagination a century later. Arthur Rackham was born in London in 1867 and as a child showed great talent for drawing. After finishing his early education at the City of London School he began working for an insurance agency while attending Lambeth College of Art. He later described this period to a young admirer: What Rackham described was working as a jobbing illustrator for popular newspapers, his main means of support during the 1880s and early 1890s. Arthur Rackham’s first book, To The Other Side, published in 1893. Arthur Rackham illustration from To the Other Side. In 1905 J.