Posts in the ‘Pen’ Category
Steel City Artist: Drawings and Interview with Charles Ott
Lest you think that I have a predisposition for trippy, vulgar, and raunchy drawings (what am I saying, I confess I do!), I want to showcase an artist who’s been making a name for himself in the Pittsburgh area and beyond with his meticulously rendered…
January 22, 2010
Selecting Between One Million Possibilities: Drawings and Interview with Andreas Martini
Looking at some of the drawing art of German Andreas Martini, it might be a bit surprising to find out that he was schooled as an architect, and even more surprising that, as he states on his website, “andreas works in the field of 3d-design…
January 19, 2010
Interview with Scott Move
Untitled (Zombie Head) by Scott Move
Jim Phillips on acid – that’s kind of what the art of Scott Move reminds me of, and why I was so excited when he got in touch with me. The interwoven imagery looks almost like the T-2000 burning in…
January 8, 2010
Drawings by Wonman Kim
Recently Wonman Kim, a 35-year-old freelance illustrator and graphic designer from Seoul, South Korea, got in touch with me and graciously agreed to answer a few questions I had for him, which I have summarized below.
Growing up in Seoul, Kim is a self-taught artist who…
December 7, 2009
Godmachine
Back in Black T-Shirt by Godmachine
Aziz a.k.a. Godmachine is an illustrator based out of Wales, UK, with some seriously nasty skills. Growing up and working as an electrician and bricklayer as a young lad, it was skateboard graphics through which he rekindled his connection to…
October 30, 2009
How to Draw Hands: 35 Tutorials, How-To’s, Step-by-Steps, Videos, Studies, Poses and Photo References
I’ve found drawing hands one of the most challenging aspects of drawing the human figure. You can get away with quite a bit when rendering the human figure, but get the hand wrong and it sticks out like a sore thumb. Once you start learning…
"Tower of Babel" by Colin McAllister
Tower of Babel (Detail) by Colin McAllister
Tower of Babel by Colin McAllister
Looking at the artwork of 24-year-old U.K. artist Colin David McAllister, you get the sense of a man on a mission. The scale, detail, and perspectives of his drawings are immediately overwhelming; in fact, that they…
July 27, 2009
"The Feeb" by Mike May
The characters developed by veteran concept artist and character designer Mike May are anything but ordinary – each inhabits a unique world, suggested not so much by the environment they’re rendered in but by the dress, demeanor, and look of the characters themselves. Mike is…
June 5, 2009
Drawing #008 by Mathis Rekowski
Although Illustrator Mathis Rekowski has some wonderfully trippy drawings like the one featured here, he’s got even more illustrations seem to me at once retro and cutting edge. Certainly someone to watch out for. You can purchase the image above at Mathis’ new store, or…
June 5, 2009
"Love Sketch" by Matthew Woodson
Finding illustrations like those of Matthew Woodson is why I (admittedly intermittenly) do this website. His work seems fresh and relevant – small moments of beauty in a dreary world. Definitely bookmark this one, and check out his blog if you get a chance.
June 2, 2009
