Alar Iko
Alar Iko (AKA Alariko) is an illustrator and background artist from Spain. He works with digital painting and drawing tools, primarily in Procreate, in a style that has the character of traditional ink and watercolor.
His approach is at once loose and solidly grounded in good draftsmanship. In many of his architectural subjects, he will deliberately leave verticals askew, adding to the casual visual charm of the drawing.
You can see the influence of anime, particularly Studio Ghibli, in many of his images, including an occasional witch on a broomstick in a manner reminiscent of Miyazaki’s Kiki’s Delivery Service.
Much of the time,...
Midori Kingdom by Daniele Turturici
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Eye Candy for Today: Emil Carlsen’s Still life with Brass Urn
Still life with Brass Urn, by Soren Emil Carlsen, oil on canvas, roughly 30 x 34 in. (76 x 86 cm). The image was sourced from a Christie’s auction in 2010, so I assume the original is now in a private collection.
Another mind-bogglingly beautiful still life from the brilliant Danish painter Emil Carlsen, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
High end auction sites, like Christie’s and Sotheby’s, are some of the few places where I normally trust the fidelity of images of artwork.
But, in this case, my instincts got the better of me and I...
Tengoku City by Daniele Turturici
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Wilżanka by Sebastian Szmyd
"Choć kiedyś nie zostanie po mnie już nawet cień, to dzisiaj jestem jeszcze tutaj, tańcząc pośród łąk."
"Though not even a shadow of me will one day linger, today I am here, dancing in the meadows"
Summer storms are the best storms, am I right? Not even hail and the dents on my car will convince me otherwise
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Detail
Pencil underdrawing
Process shot #1
Process shot #2
Initial idea quicksketch, digital.
Carlo Stanga
Carlo Stanga is an Italian born illustrator currently living and working in Berlin. He works primarily in a loose but often precise and detailed style of line and color, using a variety of media.
He plays with the conventions of line and color, sometimes using color for the lines themselves, sometimes losing the line altogether, often within the same illustration.
His detailed illustrations are often filled with fun details, even cut-aways of trains or buildings within a larger scene.
You can find a gallery of his illustrations on his website, as well as additional image in his shop, where prints are available.
There is...
Eye Candy for Today: Study of a Woman’s Head, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Study of a Woman’s Head, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, oil on wood, roughly 18 x 16 in. (47 x 41 cm), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. The link is to the page for this painting on the Met’s website.
As I find is often the case with images posted by museums of works from their collections, their primary image is way too dark. This seems to be deliberate practice among many museums, for reasons I can’t fathom.
If you look below the image, you’ll see thumbnails of alternate views. One of them is a photograph of...
Kees Kousemaker’s Comiclopedia at Lambiek.net
Lambiek is certainly one of the oldest, if not the oldest, comic shop in the world. Located in Amsterdam, it was founded by in 1968 by Kees Kousemaker.
At one level, the shop’s online presence is a webshop, a source of comics, graphic novels and related material, often hard to find, that ships worldwide. In the shop section, you can browse by genre, year, artists, writers, series or publishers; or you can search.
Within this site, however is a monumental resource that Kousemaker, along with Bas Schuddeboom and Kjell Knudde, have built over the years called the Comiclopedia. This is a compendium...
August Leu
August Wilhelm Leu was a 19th century German landscape painter who specialized in dramatic large scale scenes of the mountains in the Alps and Norway.
In the detail crops in the images above, second from top and two at bottom, you can see some of the wonderful detail in these.
Eat your heart out, Bob Ross!
next summer in Portugal?
Probably :-)