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Illustrators and Designers
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AGENTS

Rita Marie Represents
Represents, among others, Mort Drucker, Roger Chandler and many others.

BRYCE ARTISTS

• David Robinson
Link: /www.bambam131.com

If you're into virtual spaceships, check this out! Comics artist John Ridgway recommended this site to me.

CONCEPT ARTISTS

Conceptart.org is a great general site for any artist: if you're seeking inspiration or advice, check it out.

Feng Zhu


GRAPHIC DESIGNERS

• Robert Donald
Official: www.robertdonald.co.uk

Although initially aiming for jobs assisting in magazine and pamphlet design, Rob's main interest lies in poster design for film, as well as DVD and video covers. He's keeping his options open however, and is also considering moving into film and television concept design, as well as title graphics.

INDIVIDUAL ILLUSTRATORS


• Banksy
Link: www.banksy.co.uk

Stunning grafitti art and other imagery

Julian Beever's Pavement Drawings
These are amazing!  They are pavement drawings that work as three dimensional images, but only from one direction

• John James Audubon
Link: www.mcq.org/audubon/menu.html

Let your imagination soar as the birds that ruled America's skies more than a century ago live again in resplendent color. Here's a chance to glimpse into the artistic mind of legendary naturalist John James Audubon, as well as spy the bountiful menagerie he adeptly painted on an 11-year quest to capture American birds with life-size accuracy. Much more detailed than the era's photographic capabilities allowed, these 435 color plates depict species such as the Common Grackle, Hooded Warbler, and Bald Eagle in all their majesty. The original collection is enhanced by a whimsical Flash exhibit, which introduces you to both graceful and hardy creatures amid their natural habitats. While some of these beauties are no longer with us, their spirit and imprint on Audubon have been forever captured for future generations to admire.

• Joanne Brooker
Offiical: www.purplespiderstudio.com.au

Joanne Brooker is a professional artist specialising in caricature, Joanne has been a full time editorial illustrator for Queensland Newspaper for nine years. Previously she worked in advertising and in T-shirt art design.

Cartoon by James Burley• James Burley
Official site: www.jamesburleyillustrator.com

Bristlsh-based cartoonist and illustrator sent me some very funny Star Wars cartoons (not featured on his site, hard luck!). He divides his time between writing "hugely funny" comedy for radio, TV, and film. He has worked sporadically for local web designers and the mighty Aardman Animations. He has also been responsible for many sought after T-shirt designs. He's also involved in the wonderful Spewmy tales web site (www.spewmytales.com) which is a great place for kids. They hope to include a downloadable cut out theatre at some point. It's fab!

Steve Carroll: Diversity and race illustration• Steve Carroll
Official: www.asmi94.dsl.pipex.com/Steve/home.htm

Steve has worked as a professional illustrator for the last 10 years and his client list include a diverse range of magazines such as Mojo, the Radio Times, Mayfair and The Ecologist.

• Chris Dien
Official: www.chrisdien.com

The official website of Chris Dien, illustrator of painted comic and fantasy art

Bob Eggleton's "Elegant Space Dragon"• Bob Eggleton
Official: www.bobeggleton.com
Art-A-Day Blog: bobsartdujour.blogspot.com
Bob's Art for Sale Blog: bobsartforsale.blogspot.com

Award-winning fantasy/SF artist who works on both publishing projects and film concept work (such as Jimmy Neutron and most recently, The Ant Bully) but has a passion for landscape work, small paintings and exploring the properties of paint. His blogs mostly showcase his "painting-for-the-day" as kind of a personal voyage.

Stolen by Mark Evans
• Mark Evans
Official: www.cloudmover.net

Mark, whose work includes covers for Star Fleet games, fantasy world imagery, concept designs and character sketches sent me a few links to his site and I was highly impressed by the skill, energy and delivery of his work. Well worth a visit.
Since graduating from Pratt Institute in 1991 on a Full Scholarship, Mark has worked on a variety of assignments including illustrations and storyboards for Walt Disney Consumer Products, Wizards of The Coast, Topps, Marvel Comics, Scholastic, Dell Magazines, Nerf, AT&T and Coca Cola. Some of the other properties and companies he has done illustrations for include Games Workshop's "Warhammer 40,000", Upper Deck’s World of Warcraft CCG, Star Trek, Dell Magazines' Isaac Asimov, Analog and Ellery Queen monthly publications, the official New Line Cinema/Peter Jackson/ Decipher Inc. Lord of the Rings game RPG book Fell Beasts and Wondrous Magic, Wizards of the Coast and the trading card game and RPG A Game of Thrones based on the acclaimed A Song of Fire and Ice novels by George R. R. Martin.

• Alan Fore
Official: www.alanfore.com

Book covers, design work and web site design -- Alan's got a lot of strings to his bow. Among his acheivements, he designed the website for Michonne Bourriague, the actress who played bounty hunter Aurra Sing in Star Wars Episode 1; and Shannon McCrandle, the professional model and make-up artist hired by Decipher, Inc. in 1999 to portray the character Mara Jade for the Star Wars Customizable Card Game.

• Giles
Tribute Page: giles.clickhere2.net

Cartoonist for the Daily Express, his visual commentary on British life certainly delighted my Dad and thousands of others for over 50 years.

• David Griffiths
Official: www.dsgportfolio.co.uk

Lead artist on Star Wars: The Clone Wars

• European Artists Gallery
Link: http://users.pandora.be/marcbazooka/euro_artists.htm

Comics artists and illustrators featured including Alfonso Azpiri, Chris Achilleos and many others

Freas: As He Sees It
• Frank Kelly Freas
Link: www.kellyfreas.com

11-time Hugo Award-winning illustrator of book and magazine cover and interior art for science fiction, fantasy, the NASA space program, record albums, advertising, and MAD Magazine. Freas died on 2 January 2004: his site includes an extensive biography, illustrations and more.
Buy Frank Kelly Freas: As He Sees It - one of the more popular collections of his work - from Amazon.com
Buy Frank Kelly Freas: As He Sees It - one of the more popular collections of his work - from Amazon.co.uk

Christmas Dragon and Friend by Edward Gorey -- buy via Gorey Details
• Edward Gorey
Link: The Works of Edward Gorey - www.goreyography.com

My good friend Lou Anders sent me an Artpost Chrstmas card featuring an image by the late Edward Gorey in 2004: I have to confess that if I had ever seen his work before, this was the first time his terrific ink work registered in my tiny brain.
Described as "American Gothic" by one admirer, Gorey's volumes of drawings amuse, delight and provoke a small coterie of collectors. Thomas McDade's tribute to Gorey sums it up: "His distinctive and characteristic style of drawing is joined with a mordant wit and a taste for the outre."
Goreyography is a graphical galleria of gratuitous Gorey, a continuous choreography of calamitous characters. Both bibliographical and biographical, Goreyography delivers a comprehensive collection of information about the works of author-artist Edward Gorey [1925-2000]. In addition to Gorey's enigmatic genius, Goreyography also exhibits works of lesser known individuals, their paintings, photographs and other forms of artistic expression.

William Hogarth
Witty, satirical, subversive and talented, William Hogarth remains one of the most fascinating and innovative artists of the 18th century, and his work is considered an inspiration for comics artists and illustrators even today.
William Hogarth - National Gallery collection
• The Guardian has a ‘slideshow’ talk online with Steve Bell discussing his impressions of the Hogarth show - which included many of the artit's satirical, surrealistic engravings alongside delicately painted portraits - at Tate Britain in early 2007

• Colin Howard
Link: www.colinhowardartwork.com

Doctor Who, album covers... Colin's done the lot and he's a great bloke too!

• Lamponi Leopardi Maurizio
Link: www.artmajeur.com/lampons

Italian creator Lamponi Maurizio sent me some stunning pieces of 3D art inspired by Dan Dare, but he's perhaps better known for his distinctive lamp designs and more. The styling is quite gorgeous and will surely appeal to anyone looking for something with a 50s retro look to their home.

• The Art Instruction books of Andrew Loomis
Link: www.saveloomis.org

Downloadable versions of books by this highly-recommended artist, regarded as the premier commercial illustrator of the '40s and '50s. . He was responsible for numerous print ads, billboards, and calendars; his romantic and imaginative style inspired artists throughout America.
You can also find a downloadabe version of his works Creative Illustration here (www.fineart.sk/index.php?cat=13); Drawing the Head and Hands (www.fineart.sk/index.php?cat=14); and Successful Drawing (www.fineart.sk/index.php?cat=15)

• Human Photo References for 3D Artists and Game Developers
Link: www.3d.sk


Quantum Dreams: The Art of Stephan Martinere
• Stephan Martinere
Official: www.martiniere.com

Well known for his SF book cover work, Stephan Martiniere's art is in part inspired by films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, Blade Runner and The Dark Crystal. He worked on the Inspector Gadget animated series as a character and background designer in Japan (his early animation credits also include Heathcliff and The Real Ghostbusters), before settling in California where he became a television director for a number of animated shows including Dennis The Menace, Where's Waldo and the animated musical adaptation Madeline.
Leaving animation he moved to theme park design, working on Star Trek: The Experience and The Race For Atlantis in Las Vegas. These projects led Stephan to Hollywood, where he had the exciting opportunities to design for the feature films such as I, Robot and Star Wars Episodes II and III.
More recently he has worked on game design (including Uru: Ages Beyond Myst and Myst 5 and as an award-winning book cover illustrator.
Buy Quantum Designs: The Art of Stephan Martinere from Amazon.com
Buy Quantum Designs: The Art of Stephan Martinere from Amazon.co.uk

the art of john picacio• John Picacio
Official: www.johnpicacio.com

Texas-based award-winning artist who has done book covers for the work for Haraln Ellison, Robert Silverberg and many others. Picacio takes an unbelievably wide range of subject matter and turns out unique, beautiful and, some argue iconic imagery, all the while making it look effortless.
Buy Cover Story: The Art of John Picacio from Amazon.com
Buy Cover Story: The Art of John Picacio from Amazon.co.uk

• Graeme Neil Reid
Official: www.gnreid.co.uk

Illustrator and comics artist. Check out his great Doctor Who illustrations -- very moody!

James Ryman - Cover for Dragon Magazine• James Ryman
Link: www.jamesryman.com


F
reelance artist based in the Midlands, UK. Full colour illustrations and concept work for fantasy, sci-fi and horror books, magazines (the sample is the art for a cover of Dragon) and games.

• Andrew Skilleter
Official: www.andrewskilleter.co.uk


Brilliant illustrator whose work includes Doctor Who, the Chronicles of Narnia and more. His site will be fully live in November 2003.

• Rick Stenbach
Link: www.ricksternbach.com

Rick Sternbach has been a space and science fiction artist since the early 1970s, whose clients include NASA, Sky and Telescope, Random House, the Smithsonian, Analog and Time-Life Books. He is a founding member and Fellow of the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA), which was formed in 1981. He worked on the Star Trek series from The Next Generation onwards -- one of the first employees hired to update the Trek universe.
This talented designer created new spacecraft, tricorders, phasers, and hundreds of other props and set pieces. (Read his profile on startrek.com)

Derek Walborn
Official: www.derekwalborn.com

New York artist Derek focuses on creating characters, creatures and more recently, environments for them to live in.

Dan Waring
Official: www.danwaring.com

MySpace: www.myspace.com/dan_waring
Perhaps better known as an illustrator, the galleries on British artist Dan Waring's site feature a wide range of his work, from children's book illustrations to editorial images. He works in a range of media including watercolour, coloured pencil, acrylic, pen and pencil. Dan has also undertaken a number of portrait commissions.

 

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