I'm feeling underexposed to good art, which may be one reason for my plateau. I'm especially interested in styles/methods of shading, as all my art is pure outlines
any recommendations?
favorite artists?
By bossmonkey | Monday, February 14, 2005 at 11:25pm
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favorite artists?
I've recently been inspired by the underground/lowbrow art scene... Here's a few artists I particularly enjoy:
Tim Biskup
Jeff Soto
Gary Baseman
Doze Green
Glenn Bar
Mark Ryden
Rembrandt
Da Vinci
Bonnard
Rothko
Deibenkorn
Turner
Sargent
Giacometti
Oldenberg
I followed art in college but I don't anymore. These were a few of my favorites.
Boss, you say your chief interest is shading. Most of my choices reflect my interest in lighting and texture.
Since you're interested in shading, you might want to check out Caravaggio's works.
Hello.
Hre is my list of folks
Chuck Jones
Ward Kimball
Don Bluth
Chris Sanders
James Baxter
Dean Dubois
Robert Liberace
DiVinci
Glenn Vilppu
Sally Boswell
Sue Nichols
that's a good start
Larry
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I'm always interested in lighting and shading, and will thus second the motion for you to view any chiaroscuro like Caravaggio...
thanks very much guys
it's been a pleasure looking through such a wide variety of different styles, and appreciate your help
I remember Caravaggio from art history class... probably the only name I remember :D really awesome stuff
but I actually should've been more specific; I'm most interested in finding experts at different black and white comic book rendering techniques. I've seen examples of pure ink, inkwash, screentones, etc, and really appreciate the interest that all the extra strokes add to the pieces (like I said, I usually just flat shade in my outlines)
apples : oranges ::
Well if you want more comic book style artists how about:
Will Eisner
Simon Bisley
Mike Mignola
Dave McKean
Mobius (look more at his old Blueberry stuff, although all is other work is great)
And some illustrators:
Ronald Searle (he did the character designs for "101 dalmatians")
Ralph Steadman
Gerald Scarfe (he did the character designs for Disney's "Hercules")
"check it out, you know it makes sense!" http://miaumau.blogspot.com/
Edgar Degas as well
Da Vinci
Aubrey Beardsley
Edward Gorey
Terlizzi
...In that order, I guess.
Definately:
-Lane Smith... He did the character designs for "James and the Giant Peach"
-Chris Riddle... British political cartoonish and children book illustrator
-Peter de Sevé... Illustrator and character designer for all the big nice companies like Disney, Pixar and Blue Sky. (http://www.peterdeseve.com/)
These are just three of my favourites, if you want more, just ask!
"check it out, you know it makes sense!" http://miaumau.blogspot.com/
charles burns. nobody can ink like he can.
I've always been inspired by:
Norman Rockwell (artist/illustrator)
Drew Struzan (artist/illustrator)
Michael Whelan (artist/illustrator)
Don Bluth (animator)
Maxfield Parrish (artist/illustrator)
N.C. Wyeth (artist/illustrator)
H.R. Giger (artist, crazy ass devil worshipper)
Syd Mead (Illustrator/Designer)
Bridgman (Life Drawing)
Marc Silvestri (Comics Book Illustrator TopCow.com)
Frank Thomas (Disney animator)
Ollie Johnston (Disney Animator)
Milt Kahl (Disney Animator)
Freddy Moore (Disney Animator)
Glen Keane (Disney Animator)
Andreas Deja (Disney Animator)
Sergio Pablos (Disney Animator)
Bill Tytla (Disney Animator)
Vincent Van Gogh (Artist)
Some interesting newer artists:
Odd Nerdrum (Artist/ nutt-job)
Don Seegmiller (Digital Illustrator/artist)
Ben Caldwell (Illustrator/Comic Artist)
Don Yeagle (Illustrator)
Those are all the guys who've influenced me. I'm sure there are a ton more but that's all I can think of at the moment. All of those guys are worth checking out, some really great stuff.
BTW, if it's shading and rendering you're insterested in, you should Definitely check out Don Seegmiller's book: Digital Character Design and Painting. It has some beautiful instruction on rendering illustrations.