Tag Archive | "sketches"

Walt Simonson draws Beta Ray Bill & Thor

Monday, May 16, 2011

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YouTube user Kameliter posted this short video of one of the great master of comics, Walter Simonson, sketching for fans at the  Hawthorne High Comic Art Show in New Jersey. Here Walt is sketching a Beta Ray Bill and the mighty Thor- it isn’t timelapse and it is amazing to watch how quickly he sketched [...]

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Moleskine sketchbook

Thursday, September 23, 2010

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Swedish based illustrator Mattias Adolfsson has been posting up a rather lovely virtual flip through his Moleskine sketchbook and you really want to go and enjoy a look through it (thanks to Michael Nobbs for the link): (wonderful Moleskine sketchbook drawing by and (c) Mattias Adolfsson)

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The Haunting – and sketching – of Hill House

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

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Writer’s Houses has sketches by the great Shirley Jackson, found in her papers in the Library of Congress, including some of Hill House and other fictional locales (link via Matt Staggs):

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Al Hirschfeld drawing

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

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Mike Lynch points us to this video of the then 99 year old artist Al Hirschfeld sketching Paul Newman over a period of eight hours, compressed into a short video:

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Win an ink sketch from Graeme Neil Reid

Friday, February 5, 2010

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Graeme Neil Reid tells me he posted up no less than eighteen different ink sketches on his blog through December and January, taking in science fiction characters, comics and sci-fi movies. Now he’s offering a chance to win your choice from the sketches, simply by clicking the follow button on his blog and leaving your [...]

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Tintin sketches

Sunday, November 8, 2009

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Top Shelf’s Leigh Walton has collected a whole array of Tintin themed sketches from a diverse number of comics artists at conventions over the years, from Bryan Lee O’Malley to Kate Beaton to James Kochalka to Eddie Campbell (whose Thomson and Thompsons can be seen below). Extremely cool! Via Comics Alliance (in turn via Heidi [...]

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