Guillermo White in “Caras y Caretas” 1906
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A brief bio of Señor Cao reveals that he was born in the North-East of Spain (Galicia) in December 1862. He showed a precocious talent for drawing, and from a very early age put his artistic talents to use in a [...]
I’m delighted to include Stephen Hanson’s name in the blogroll once more, since he recently resurfaced on his old blog address.
Moon Jelly (Click on these pictures to enlarge them, please.)
His blog is chock full of the goodness you’ll remember from its previous incarnation before its disappearance.
Catch Me If You Can
Poker Club on the Ark
Here’s the [...]
Should you ever be stuck while trying to recall how to draw a tricky pose, or even a walk cycle, and you haven’t got a lay figure handy, then posemaniacs.com might be just the right online tool for you.
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You can rotate all the models clockwise or widdershins. [...]
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Of course the more perspicacious among you readers of Articles and Texticles will have immediately spotted what the artist is doing wrong in this picture.
That’s right, he’s wearing completely the wrong footwear for the job. He should be wearing very heavy boots so that he can keep his knees down, and support [...]
Here is a selection of beautiful samples of the chromolithographic printer’s art, applied to cigar boxes.
They seem to be speculative samples that were sent out to North American cigar packers around 1880 -1910, judging by the costumes.
While it’s fortunate that whoever runs the Brasilian website containing these images has gone to the trouble of collecting [...]
This is a drawing from early in Paul Terry’s career, in the days before he became an animator. He later went on to produce over 1,300 cartoons between 1915 and 1955 including the many Terrytoons cartoons, making him one of the most prolific film producers in history. (Wikipedia)
I found it on the Otis Historical Archives [...]
The work of Rowland Hilder (1905 - 1993) is held up for your admiration in this snow scene, #3 in the advent series.
The painting is from an advertisement for beer, and it’s titled ” Whitbread Stout at the Cross Keys Inn”
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I swiped this mini-bio from the Kings [...]
While doing some visual research for an ongoing project, I came across this beautiful group of textile print designs from a photo set on Flickr.
Here’s the Flickr set it forms part of -
There’s a blog called Teatime, that is linked to the set …
… that contains some very lovely vintage illustrations of Japanese and [...]
There’s a new name in the blogroll (left) today, and it’s that of Stephen Hanson, Illustrator and Visual development artist.
I had the pleasure of working with Steve a few years ago during the making of Balto, where we both painted backgrounds.
He’s been producing some gorgeous work that you can see on his new blog The [...]
Good to see that the Director / writer of Lilo and Stitch has his own website at last.
Here’s the link:
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