Illustrators and Designers
See also: Comics
Artists
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.
• 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
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
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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
Link: www.jamesryman.com
Freelance 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.
