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Movement Toward The Viewer in Illustration
Want to freak your audience out? How about a one point perspective illustration of something heading straight for them at speed?
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Pink in Illustration
In the last half century or so pink has increasingly become femme coded. This wasn’t the case before the second world war.
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Hunting And Trapping In Art And Illustration
Stalking Horse: a person or thing that is used to conceal someone’s real intentions. I heard this phrase used to describe a tactic used by Woolworths Australia, who installed a digital mirror at some self-serve check outs. They said that they were not retaining any images, and if customers don’t like it, customers were free to use the staffed […]
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Illustrating Shiny Fabric
Examples of shiny fabric as depicted in art and illustration: from realism to stylised.
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Red Blue and Yellow Dominant In Artwork
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The Cosy Little World In Illustration
Artists have various ways of deliberately distorting naturalistic perspective to achieve a certain mood, for example, a cosy little world.
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Luggage and Suitcases In Art and Storytelling
Luggage, suitcases, boxes and other forms of containment are useful motifs for storytellers. Find a standout example in the lyrical short story “Prelude”, one of Katherine Mansfield’s finest.
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Snow Play In Art and Illustration
A whole town comes together in carnivalesque fashion for a snow fight in the wonderful scene below.
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Baseball Art and Storytelling
Examples from sports illustrators and book covers
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Posties, Letterboxes and Postal Services in Illustration
There will come a time when people don’t remember the postal service as it exists now (or used to exist). Here are some images which now seem a little quaint.
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Sunsets and Sunrises in Art and Illustration
I can’t be sure which of these illustrations depict sunrise and which sunset, but it’s funny how sometimes you still get a sense of the hour of day. How do artists do that?
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Wrapping Gifts and Presents in Art and Storytelling
They were at breakfast table, and the boy looked up from his plate curiously. He was an alert-eyed youngster with flat bond hair and a quick, nervous manner. He didn’t understand what the sudden tension was about, but he did know that today was his birthday, and he wanted harmony above all. Somewhere in the […]
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Symbolism of Bridges and Rainbows
Why bridges and rainbows? What have they got to do with each other? Well, the archetypal bridge is an arc shape, like the rainbow. Symbolically, bridges and rainbows can be similar.
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Ship Decks in Art and Illustration
In art and storytelling, the ship deck is a stage.
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Two Worlds In The Same Illustration
These illustrations show two or more separate environments in a single shot.