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I'd like to welcome Tyrell Cannon, who serves up a guest analysis of a chapter break from Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira. I met Tyrell at the Small Press Expo this

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I thought I'd share some of the drawings by Osamu Tezuka that I referred to several times to try to work out doing nature with ink. All three of

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Before I say anything else, if you're an artist you should go buy both of James Gurney's books about painting. If you like the approach this blog takes

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In 1992 I was just starting graduate school in visual perception. One of the things they showed us in our first days was this painting by Salvador Dali.

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I've been wanting to do a Frank Frazetta analysis for quite a while, and finally it's time. He was amazingly fast and produced many, many paintings. I thought

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As I recently said on Facebook, "How have I not been aware of Donato Giancola before now?" This one stopped me as I was going through Spectrum 16, and

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So I'm finally back after the hiatus. I've been antsy about the time off, so I'm glad to get to this one. I first ran into Charles Vess'

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What a difficult choice! There are a lot of great illustrations in the Dover book, and it was hard to decide which one to look at for

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