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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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Illustrating The Water Surface
Painting a realistic water surface is one thing. But what if you want to stylise it? How have others done it?
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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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Making Art With Artificial Intelligence: Viaduct Bridges
AI ASSISTED ART TRY YOUR OWN Header illustration: East coast to Scotland travel poster
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Housework in Art and Illustration
Various illustrations of housework from the 1800s and through the 20th century.
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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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Origami and Paper Craft in Art and Illustration