R.Crumb or Robt. Crumb or Robert Crumb. My first exposure to his stuff was the Cheap Thrills album art for a great Janis Joplin record which my Mom owned. I had never seen art like that when I was 12 years old. I forgot about him but his work kept popping up throughout my life, even on blotter acid. The dude is just incredibly prolific and his style is all his own. Just look up robert crumb
John Nava’s Tapestry design’s for the L.A. cathedral was a wake up call for me as to what a 2-D artist could bring to a large scale architectural project. The cash cow for such projects usually going to 3-D art or overpriced Blue chip 2-d stock that was more a decoration as part of an investment portfolio than a serious part of the architectural design process.
Here’s the story on the tapestries.
The whole cathedral is a unique and beautiful monument but that’s another story.
I was living in L.A. when Mark Ryden came galloping out of the subconscious and burst onto the scene with the Meat Show at the Mendenhall Gallery in Pasadena. He was all over the place after that. Spontanious combustion. Pure americana.
His website here.
This book floated to the top of the pile when searching for Sophie’s books of the week. I am glad I found it. A beautiful and imaginatively story told entirely through illustrations, with no written narrative. David Wiesner won his third Caldecott award with this book ‘Flotsam”.
A nice contrast of flat costume and dimensional flesh in Nouveau style sexy. This is a Stanley Lau Character “Pepper”.
His handle on deviantART is Artgerm. Very talented and apparently busy illustrator and concept designer from Singapore.
This is the work of 2 of my students from last semester’s Illustration I class at Flagler.
The assignment was to choose an existing character and transform it into a “stock” monster (werewolf, Frankenstein, etc.). Then produce a style sheet complete with final B+W drawing, expressions and turnaround. These two nailed it.
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