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Yellow Backgrounds In Illustration
A collection of illustrations with yellow as background.
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Baking In Art And Illustration
Bakers and baking in art and illustration
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Fantasy Laboratories In Art And Illustration
Baddies conjuring potions up in labs and goodies coming up with solutions
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Women And Girls Reading In Art And Illustration
Reading is a girl-coded activity. I haven’t done any deliberate gender curation here — paintings and illustrations of women and girls with books, letters and magazines are simply far more common. However, you will find far more men (fathers) reading newspapers.
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Carriages, Carts, Chariots and Coaches in Art and Illustration
From various angles, all through the ages
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Uplighting In Art And Illustration
Uplighting is when the main light source in a work of art is coming from below the subject. This lighting almost always lends a creepy or outright scary vibe. If you’ve ever shone a torch under your chin while on camp you’ll be well-aware of how different you look. Few (if any?) people are rendered more beautiful with this lighting…
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Numerous “Birds” Roosting In Trees In Art And Illustration
Some of these are not birds and are creepy.
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Villages In Art and Illustration
Here is a collection of art and illustration which celebrate village life.
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Crocodiles and Alligators in Art and Storytelling
Sometimes they’re friendly, sometimes foe
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Kitchen Stoves And Ovens In Art and Illustration
What do kitchen stoves look like throughout the ages?
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Windmills and Water Mills In Art and Illustration
A mill is a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour. Or, a factory fitted with machinery for a particular manufacturing process e.g. “a steel mill”.
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Aeroplanes In Composition
How artists place aeroplanes (and winged creatures) on the page
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One Point Perspective Picture Book Houses
The one point perspective house is commonly when children draw when they first start drawing houses. Here’s an example from my own kid. I think they were about 8 years old when they drew this one.
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Large Shapes In Illustration And Graphic Design
Below is a motley collection of illustrations but I feel they share something in common: They seem to have started from an assemblage of large shapes of colour. On top of those shapes, some are rendered and shaded while others aren’t.
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Housework in Art and Illustration
Various illustrations of housework from the 1800s and through the 20th century.