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#the prompt is 'beast'#this is inspired by a John Bauer illustration#because I'm a fan of his work first and a human being second#inktober?#pinktober#roger waters#cryptid roger waters#david gilmour#nick mason#rick wright#i managed to get ink on the super-obnoxius (rather creepy) ceramic bust of myself that i keep on my desk while making this#not good
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A Swedish gårdstomte I drew yesterday. Trying to connect to the style of the late 1800 when artists like Jenny Nyström, Carl Larsson and John Bauer shaped the collective image of our fairytales and myths.
I was inspired to do this when I found two 120 year old original pen and ink fairytale illustrations at the secondhand the other day. A real find! And I even managed to find what books they originally were published in. More about that some other day.
#tomte#gnome#santa#or#elf#?#illustrators on tumblr#henning cedmar brandstedt#artists on tumblr#sketchbook#sweden#sweblr
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Hello!
I was wondering where you get inspiration for your art from, if you have any at all, that is. I've never seen anyone with an art style even close to yours before but at the same time it reminds me of some medieval artworks that I really admire!
You're a very, very talented artist :)
Thanks! I get a lot of my inspiration from historical artists such as Gustav Dore, Durer, John Bauer, and Hieronymus Bosch, however my biggest art inspirations are Frank Franzetta, Samwise Didier, and (by far the largest of all of 'em) Chris Metzen.
I started drawing a ton of Samwise and Metzen's work from the old Warcraft 2 and Diablo game manuals, and the original 'Art of Warcraft' book when I was 10, and would flip through it while eating breakfast religiously until the binding fell apart. Then I taped it back together and resumed worshiping the damn thing until I started High School, and probably ran out of tape.
However, it wasn't until some time after I graduated college and began my career that I realized how much of an effect that specific habit may have had on my artistic tastes:
... yeah. (The worst part: I didn't even notice his use of halos to balance the composition in his illustrations until I put this post together. I think I need to make some calls/get some help.)
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biggest artistic inspirations?
i mostly like the work of ancient dead people from the rennaisance and earlier, as well as slightly more contemporary artists that are in that same vein. bruigel the elder, benedetto montagna, master l, giovanni battista palumba, various unnamed engraving and manuscript artists, etc. fairy tale and fantasy illustrators like john tenniel, arthur rakham, alan lee, brian froud, john bauer, michael parkes for more contemporary stuff. i would be remiss not to mention gay furries on twitter who portray the male form with so much adoration it would make greek sculptors weep. i actively try not to allow any particular source to influence my work, though, and for the most part i am not really a media enjoyer anymore
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Has the world of Kochab been influenced by any legends beyond just “Ifrit is a fire spirit”?
the overall story arc was originally a take on Sleeping Beauty. :’) When I started writing, around the same time I also had a school assignment to do some vis dev art inspired the Aladdin fairytale, so that had a little influence. I also really liked The Firebird, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Hans Christian Andersen’s Snow Queen, A Promise Is A Promise, and fairytale-inspired work - like soviet animations The Humpbacked Horse (1947), The Fox and the Hare (1973), Hedgehog in the Fog (1975), and fairytale illustrators Vera Pavlova, Fritz Baumgarten, Ivan Bilibin, John Bauer, Arthur Rackam, Edmund Dulac. A lot of the webcomics I was reading & inspired by at the time also had a kind of fairytale tone to them.
#ask#process#comic#hmm#I'm not sure if talking about inspirations exactly answers this question#I think there were other direct influences/concepts#but they might have sunk into me too much for me to remember now
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Happy Birthday!! I love your comic so much, it's been so nice seeing it updating again! I guess if you want as a fun question, which of your characters has been the most fun to design so far? I really love Coal's distinctive hair and recently I really loved Hel's appearance (I hope we see her again someday~) so I'm curious which if any characters have stricken your fancy the most?
Thank you! Oh man, Coal's hair! You're a true TMK OG if you know where its inspiration comes from lol.
Designing characters is one of my favorite things to do, so narrowing down to a fave or most fun design can be tricky. But (speaking of tricky!) it might have to be Loki. When I first decided I was going to use Loki as a character, I was kind of worried. He's so popular and famous, probably the best-known character from the Norse myths even before Marvel's Thor movies were made. There's a lot of depictions of him so trying to come up with my own idea was pretty daunting.
A couple of things came together to help me create my own idea for Loki. One of them was John Bauer, an illustrator from the turn of the 20th century. I noticed a lot of his art used when looking at various Norse mythology pages. Some aspects of his depictions of Loki helped get my own gears turning.
Images from: https://runeberg.org/gudasaga/
Bauer's style in general was another inspiration for me, but I remember looking at that left drawing of Loki and Idunn and thinking, "His eyes are pretty narrow and dark there...kind of reminds me of a shark...ooh what if he had black eyes?" That's where the "reverse" eyes for jotnar came from. The eyes of characters and how they define them have become a common motif in the comic.
Loki's clothes, particularly his tunic, are inspired by clothes worn by the Sámi people, though I'll admit I made up the embroidery designs. In hindsight this may not have been the most appropriate decision, but it was done before I even knew the term "cultural appropriation." I think my initial ideas were that the jotnar had a connection to the indigenous people of Scandinavia and the Aesir were more like colonizers. It's actually been argued that the Aesir/Vanir war that is mentioned in the myths is a leftover from a culture (the Aesir) arriving and conquering the locals (the Vanir). Neat stuff.
No one has said anything to me about Loki's outfit so hopefully it's okay, and I don't mean anything disrespectful by using it. When I was researching I was struck by their designs and wanted to use it somewhere prominent. The story doesn't stay in Scandinavia for long so there wouldn't have been many (any?) other chances to show it.
The colors for Loki came a little easier. I knew he would be a warmer character in TMK, even become a pseudo-dad for Coal and the other kids, so all his color choices are warm and earthy. He's supposed to look approachable and friendly--at first, anyway.
I love all the designs for the characters in TMK, but I might be proudest of Loki's, if only because it was so intimidating to do in the first place. I think it worked out well.
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"A quick image painted in Photoshop from scratch, not very religious or X-mas related, but somehow inspired by the Nordic culture where I live: Santa Lucia, the white Reindeer and the magical Northern light, plus a hint of John Bauer, a great Swedish illustrator who was a master drawing Trolls and tiny Princesses."
Northern Christmas by Morgainelefee on DeviantArt
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The Meeting
Sometimes when you are in the forest, doing mundane things like walking your horse, you run into the unexpected. Like trolls, telling you to get out.
This illustration took a long time to complete. I have been working on it and another piece since the end of January. I was very inspired by the trolls of John Bauer, a Swedish artist who has painted the most magical art. I was also inspired by the traditional everyday-dress that is local to the part of Norway that I am currently living in. And of course, I had to add a fjord horse, the superior horse breed.
This is a part of my ongoing series about Scandinavian Myths and Folklore. Can’t have one without trolls.
#Odin does art#traditional art#artists on tumblr#folklore#trolls#watercolor#watercolour#illustration
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Hello lovely person! We were talking about fairy tale the other day and I wondered if you know agneta and the sea king? I love it, especially because of the John Bauer illustrations which give so much emotion to the king without ever showing his face (the church scene drawing!). Have a great week end and congrats on quitting your job 💕
Hi love! I haven't heard of that but I'll definitely check it out, I adore fairytales, they're some of my biggest inspirations for my style of writing and the stories I tell.
And thank you for the congrats on quitting my job!! I was so ready to leave honestly. It's kinda scary but now I can have space and time to think about my future 💕
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Get to Know Me 2022
Please welcome @piinfeathers to the CSSNS!
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piinfeathers
How long have you been in the CS/OUAT fandom?
I binged the show last summer and was immediately obsessed, this show has taken over my life.
When did you start shipping Captain Swan?
The second I saw Killian Jones, beaten and bloody on the side of the road literally 5 minutes after getting hit by a car, still taking the time to hit on a clearly annoyed Emma Swan I knew I was a goner. The finale of season 3 basically cemented them as my all timer ship.
What drew you to this event?
I’ve really been interested in collabing with another artist or writer for a while now. I think this show and this fandom in particular inspires some of the most unique and beautiful art and I really loved the idea of bouncing ideas off of other creators.
What inspired your topic?
Honestly? Colin’s pointy lil ears always make me think of elves and fae, and the fact that Emma is canonically a lost fairy tale princess, it just goes together so well.
If you would like to share a snippet/sneak peek/summary of your fic or artwork, please use the space below.
I’m really interested in exploring a more traditional fairy tale illustration style for this. I studied a lot of fairy tale art and folk art in college, and lately I’ve been super inspired by Scandinavian artists like Kay Nielsen and John Bauer.
For our artists: What kind of art do you like to do? Picsets, painting, digital, etc? Feel free to give as much info as you like.
I do digital illustrations! I work in animation as a character designer so my style does tend to skew a little cartoony. I think it suits the show a little bit, what with it being a Disney drama.
What are you looking forward to most about participating in this event?
I love the sense of community this fandom has, even this long after the show ended. I’m just excited to be part of it this year.
Steph will be dropping her original artwork on August 18th, and doing artwork for @mie779. Make sure to say hi on Tumblr and Discord.
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Radiant, enchanting & uplifting!
Action: KATE NORD
Base: Casperia • Italy
Genre: Symphonic Fantasy Metal
Title: Compass To Your Heart’s Desire
FFO: Nightwish, Epica, Enya
Format: Album
Label: Independent
Release: Dec. 16, 2022
🌐 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤 & 𝙋𝙍 Action:
𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗔𝗚𝗘 ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • 𝐸𝓈𝓉. 2001
https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_KATE_NORD_en.php
Bulletpoints:
• Deeply soulful, upliftingly visionary debut album
• Sensational clear, operetta-like female vocals
• Inspiring noble mix of Melodic, Power & Symphonic Metal
https://www.youtube.com/embed/9f1yYLIXZ78
[ Embrace The Cold • Lyric Video ]
Kate says about the song:
„This is a dark and epic story about facing difficult times and the struggle to keep going nonetheless. ‚Embracing the cold‘ is not about giving up or bending to your circumstances, but is rather a metaphor for radical acceptance of your situation and trying to make the most out of what you have. Embrace the cold, to find your way back to the sunlight!“
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qeen4n2uWZ8
[ Compass To Your Heart’s Desire • Album Teaser ]
KATE NORD is a classically trained Finnish singer/songwriter who creates high quality SYMPHONIC FANTASY METAL in central Italy.
With her versatile, impressively clear as well as amazingly soprano strong exceptional voice, this fabulous golden throat can easily compete with the best and most famous of the entire guild.
LINE-UP:
Kate Nord • Vocals, Keys, Orchestration
Francesco Mattei • Guitars
Andrea Arcangeli • Bass
Omar Campitelli • Drums
„Compass To Your Heart’s Desire“ is KATE NORD’s debut album as a solo artist, with a special guest solo by Timo Tolkki, popular by Finnish Power Metallers Stratovarius.
TRACKS
01. Recitative To The Moon 01:47
02. All Alone 03:28
03. The North Wind And The Troll 03:50
04. Embrace The Cold 02:59
05. Wither And Rust (feat. Timo Tolkki) 05:04
06. Dream Of Daylight 05:37
0. Breathe In The Night 03:43
08. Dance Of The Fairies 02:58
09. Aeternam Vale 04:24
„Compass To Your Heart’s Desire“ is inspired by Scandinavian folk tales about trolls and fairies and the illustrations to these tales, such as the works of John Bauer, as well as fantasy novels as well as the works of the world famous fantasy grandmaster J. R. R. Tolkien.
„Compass To Your Heart’s Desire“ is embedded in wonderfully powerful Heavy/Power Metal sounds with slamming drums and furious distortion guitars, often bursting with fully melodic, catchy outbursts.
FLASHBACK:
Her first release as a solo singer was a cover of Howard Blake’s „Walking In The Air“ in 2017.
Kate’s musical resume includes formal studies in classical singing in both Finland and Italy. She began her music studies in Porvoo, Finland with pianist Diana Bärlund, who also taught former Lordi keyboardist Awa (Leena Peisa).
Kate already appeared as a lyricist of the Italian Progressive Power Metal ensemble Noveria since the band’s formation in 2013. She was also featured as a guest vocalist on Noveria’s album „Forsaken“, released 2016 via Scarlet Records.
MEDIA FEEDBACK:
98 / 100
➤ „… a stunning album … a must for any fan of (female fronted) Symphonic Metal … fantastically beautifully composed and arranged … goosebumps … beauty and purity … phenomenal voice … incomparable … if you think Tarja Turunen is the best female singer, then Kate Nord comes right after!“
(Musika)
95 / 100
➤ „… very melodic, harmonic structures … a good album full of first-line classic elements … KATE NORD’s beautiful voice is unique with a clean, white and soft register! Excellent soprano!“
(Darkzen Dragon)
9 / 10
➤ „With a good sound … style influenced by Nightwish, Xandria, Amberian Dawn, including her soprano skills … intense songs … very emotional and melancholic … brilliant vocal performance … very outstanding … an exquisite album … recommended from start to finish …“
(Locos Por El Power Metal)
9 / 10
➤ „… an exhibition of classical vocals … outstanding … has a unique ability to transport emotions … very well produced … KATE NORD sets a very high bar in terms of individual performance … very promising … Symphonic Metal fans can be very excited about ‚Compass To Your Heart’s Desire‘ …“
(Metal Temple)
80 / 100
➤ „… reminds me of a good Nightwish, Epica, Within Temptation … so good for those who prefer something more melodic, clear and beautiful rather than something heavy and aggressive … Timo Tolkki is a guest musician … I can recommend it to those who like opera and classical music, and it is also suitable for those who listen to pop music, as a few songs are quite catchy …“
(MariMetal)
7,5 / 10
➤ „… will not fail to appeal to fans of formations such as Epica and Nightwish, but also to those who are not generally accustomed to sounds of this kind, resulting in an effective product that is worth giving a chance.“
(Heavy Metal Webzine)
7,5 / 10
➤ „… turned out quite pompous … immediately the intro shows their skills in all facets … the voice is clearly focused … very harmoniously kept … everything sounds like from one cast … who likes Nightwish, Within Temptation, Epica or the soundtrack to ‚The Lord Of The Rings‘ (keyword: Enya), should definitely listen in here!“
(Crossfire)
7 / 10
➤ „… brings back memories of glorious Nightwish times with Tarja as the front woman … musical treat …“
(Metal DE)
7 / 10
➤ „… varied vocals that give you goosebumps especially in the middle registers … fantastic melodies … KATE NORD’s songwriting talent is beyond question on this album … from brisk to gloomy, bombastic to dreamy and classical to Metal, the artist glides through the stylistic elements with her songs and skillfully combines them into a coherent, entertaining album … fans of female fronted Metal and Symphonic Metal may heartily enjoy!“
(Der Hörspiegel)
➤ „… practices her soprano voice with bravura … opera-inspired … stunning classical content … imagine Nightwish mixed with Rhapsody Of Fire with female vocals taking classical singing to the extreme … this is it.“
(Metal Addicts)
➤ „This album is awesome, Symphonic Metal with touches of Progressive and Power Metal, masterfully executed, with great arrangements and beautiful vocals … excellent work …“
(Metal Pedia)
➤ „Tremendous listening experience … even if I don’t like to draw comparisons, in the case of KATE NORD some with Tarja are obvious, after all they both have the same home … so if you like to be enveloped by symphonic sounds and enchanted by a beautiful voice, this is the right address!“
(Metalmamas Neuigkeiten)
➤ „… a promising debut and an artist to keep an eye on if female-fronted Symphonic Metal is your thing.“
(Sea Of Tranquility)
➤ „… this is tightly packed … good production … soul piercing through every line and riff … KATE NORD’s singing voice is clear in every word, in every syllable, and she is the clearest of all … her high voice is no different from a graceful fairy goddess … great … her throat is the best … as for the symphonic part, it is both elegant and beautiful, changing depending on the song … everything can make happy … truly heavenly …“
(Noisewriter)
etc.
Credits
[ Logo: Nicolas Spreutels ]
[ Pic: Marco Savi • SPF Produzioni ]
[ Artwork: Nicolas Spreutels ]
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This is a backpack (link at bottom of this description) with a walking troll holding a bag inspired HEAVILY by the Swedish artist, painter and illustrator JOHN ALBERT BAUER ( Born: June 4, 1882, Died: November 20, 1918! The painting I was inspired by is called "God kväll, farbror! hälsade pojken (1915)". John Bauer is quite famous when it comes to Swedish (or in general Scandinavian) folklore and fairy tales. If you or know someone who likes goblincore and cottagecore that can be a fun bag to get! :D
You can find the bag here in my etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/se-en/listing/1353387108/cute-john-bauer-swedish-troll-backpack
#john bauer#troll#gnomes and trolls#swedish#sweden#goblin#goblincore#cottagecore#folklore#fairytale#sverige#svensk#norse#nordic#scandinavian#norse mythology
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Which artists inspire you right now?
oooo recently I've been more seriously diving into like.. vintage fantasy artists like frazetta, phillipe druillet, moebius.. that ilk!
(I bought a book recently about them, it was a trash book, absolutely laughable as a piece of literature, never had a book that so strongly made me want to read This Book But Better before. But still it had a lot of wonderful illustrations and I actually feel the desire to Do Studies of the way these artists like.. used colour specifically as I try to nail in to what I really want my art to Be; or more accurately what I want to be able to Do with my Art)
But there's always the golden age of illustration folks like Kay Neilsen, John Bauer, bilibin, dulac..
and of course my modern fare like Hyde, Helen Mask, and Nemo (and many MANY others I don't have time to search out, nor would that be a helpful list sdjfhs there's a lot of artists on the internet.. and I'm not Great at keeping them All On Hand Always)
but yeah, that's a little bit of the Right Now a little bit of the Always!
I'm never sure if you can even See the influence of the things that inspire me in my art yet gdshasada as a lot of what my art Is came about from a very Technical place before I started really Exploring this kind of stuff, I can feel I need a great big Shift in how I do things again like I did waaaaay back in like 2011, but we'll see how it goes, change makes me nervous and changing your Art is Hard, especially when you can't 100% see the target.
#monster noise#I linked everyone instead of @'ing them because I didn't want to pester them with notifications#and Nemo is Also on tumblr#but they have a dedicated Art Twitter so I figured I'd share that#given the Context#Do follow him here though#it's the same username as the twitter
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The illustration shown with me, and many other images are available on magnets and postcards from my shop. https://mistysworldboutique.etsy.com . Purchases may give me rewards.
Here is a 1915 drawing from Swedish illustrator John Bauer. It shows a prince and a tomte.
A tomte is a little creature from Nordic folklore. Depending on where you're at in the Nordic lands, they may also be called tonttu or nisse.
They seem to have taken their fashion inspiration from garden gnomes, as they normally sport white beards and wear conical or knit caps in red or some other bright color. From the description we can assume that the tomte is the one on the right.
They're solitary, domestic spirits who secretly protect farmsteads, and they'll even help with the chores. Just like old people, they value tradition and they demand respect. If treated well, they'll protect the homestead and animals from all kinds of evil and misfortune .... well, except for taxes.
But just like many people in modern Western society, they're easily offended and they have short tempers. If anyone offends one of these little spirits, they'll steal things, break things or turn things upside down.💥 I think I may have some tomte blood in me.🤔😸
Long ago, Scandinavian farms were very isolated, and during the long, dark Northern winters, the tomte was a companion to keep solitude at bay, even if he wasn't really seen. When country folk moved to the cities, they brought their tomte with them. They were kind of a valuable asset. A home without one could not thrive and the family may be reduced to poverty.
Tomtar (plural of tomte) didn't ask for much in return for their services, just respect, trust and on Christmas Eve, a bowl of julgröt with butter. 🥣🧈 That's a kind of porridge. I've never had it, but I assume it must be like a liquid cat treat.😋
Folktales say that tomtar will steal from neighbors to increase the prosperity of their own homes. If that's true, there may be some of these tomtar living in neighborhoods all across America. I think they're the "Porch Pirates" we keep hearing about.☠️🏴☠️📦📦
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Artists I Like
(Listmaking is totally a creative exercise, right? Right? If that’s true then this is the longest running creative exercise I’ve ever indulged in lol)
Gerda Wegener - fashion & lesbian art nouveau/deco
Harry Watrous - enigmatic paintings of sophisticated women
Helen Frankenthaler - abstract expressionist paintings
Sergio Toppi - italian illustrations & comics
Dan Hillier - contemporary spooky angelic ink/print/collage
Mike Binge - 70s sci fi art
Gustave Dore - highly detailed wood-engravings prints, dante
Paul César Helleu - numerous portraits of beautiful society women
Roberto Ferri - making the old masters cool again
Gustav Vigeland - weird figure sculptures
NC Wyeth - one of america’s greatest illustrators
Andrew Wyeth - melancholy realism painter
Frank Frazetta - best fantasy & pulp artist
John Buscema - conan comics artist
Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez - wonder woman comics artist
Parker Hagarty - landscapes & figures
Henry Patrick Raleigh - star of golden age of illustration, high society drawings
Paul Lehr - 70s future-fantasy pulp illustrations
Stanley Meltzoff - 50s scifi/pulp cover illustrations
Alphonse Mucha - art nouveau
Kawase Hasui - japanese woodblock prints
Edmund Dulac - delicate detailed book illustrations
Makoto Takahashi - vintage shoujo manga
Harry Clarke - super detailed & dark art nouveau/deco illustrations
Sophie Lecuyer - contemporary spooky illustrations
Wassily Kandinsky - abstract geometry
George F. Kerr - book illustrations
Beatrix Potter - book illustrations
Mary Bauermeister - eclectic sculptures & drawings - geomancy
John William Waterhouse - Pre-Raphaelite paintings
Alexandre de Riquer - gorgeous mucha-esque posters & illustrations
Gianpaolo Pagni - patterned graphic designs
Giovanni Boldini - dynamic paintings/portraits, “Master of Swish”
Erté - art deco fashion ladies (new orleans!)
Cicely Mary Barker - fairy illustrations
Dorothy P. Lathrop - beautiful childrens book black n white illustrations
Kay Nielsen - glittering golden age illustrations
Coles Phillips - “fadeaway girl” golden age illustrations
Gustav Klimt - gold 💋
Koloman Moser - patterned art nouveau
Konstantin Tarasov - contemporary colorful & detailed digital drawings
Carlo Dolci - soft & dramatic chiaroscuro baroque religious portraits
Trung Le Nguyen aka Trungles - deviantart digital artist, colorful golden age mixed with anime illustrations
John Everett Millais - Pre-Raphaelite paintings
Arthur Rackham - English golden age illustrations, muted colors
Syd Mead - industrial & sci fi concept art
Mario Garbuglia - Barbarella set design
Henri Patrice Dillon - dreamy fadeaway muted illustrations/paintings
Frantisek Kupka - later Czech painter who began in representational art and evolved into pure abstraction
John Bauer - classic nordic fairy tale/myth illustrations
Aya Takano - superflat/anime but make it fine art
John Singer Sargent - heavenly portraits
Winslow Homer - masculine largely marine landscapes
George Barbier - art deco illustrations
Edward Okuń - polish art nouveau & symbolist painter
Robert Anning Bell - paintings & illustrations
Thomas Cooper Gotch - sorta preraphaelite paintings, portraits of girls
Jules Chéret - colorful french posters
Kaarina Kaila - dreamy soft children’s illustrations (almost kitsch)
Helen Hyde - japanese woodblock prints but actually they’re american
Melchior Lechter - paintings and book designs. “His hieratic, symbolic, decorative style combined gothic elements with art nouveau”
Jan Mankes - gentle unlined dutch paintings
Amrita Sher-Gil - contemporary indian paintings, mostly of woc
Sydney Long - australian watercolor landscapes
Carlos Schwabe - freaky religious/mythological symbolist paintings
Bob Pepper - groovy 60s-80s pulp illustrations
Frank R. Paul - scifi illustrations
Chéri Hérouard - La Vie Parisienne french illustrations
John Berkey - scifi illustrations/concept art
Aubrey Beardsley - fin de siecle black and white illustrations
Charles Caryl Coleman - pretty still lifes & landscapes, flowers & capri
Erich Schutz - Austrian illustrator of children's books, Schutz was influenced by Art Nouveau, and specialised in painting fairies and mermaids
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - French painter, printmaker, caricaturist and illustrator
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale - lush detailed paintings of richly dressed figures and scenes
Anne Claude de Caylus - not sure if he actually made them but print illustrations of peasantfolk
Friedrich König - Austrian prints & paintings, Klimt contemporary
Georges Barbier - french illustrations like erté
Betty Jiang - contemporary pretty pearly & dark digital art
Stephan Sinding - marble sculptures of lovers
Heikala - contemporary soft & sweet watercolor & ink illustrations anime inspired
Paul-Albert Besnard - french prints & paintings in between academic & impressionist
Henry Ossawa Tanner - biblical realism paintings
Norman Lindsay - etchings with lotsa great figures
Michael O’Toole - colorful landscapes
Caspar David Friedrich - moody Romantic paintings
Gian Lorenzo Bernini - iconic baroque marble sculptures
Francois Schuiten - french detailed architecture comic art
Adrienne Gaha - colorful contemporary half-abstract paintings
Tradd Moore - trippy silver surfer comic art
tono/rt0no (on tumblr) - super cute illustrations of victorian cats ;-;
Nanaco Yashiro - pretty colorful contemporary illustrations
Ramiro Sanchez - contemporary traditional painter, director of painting program at Florence Academy of Art
Isabella Fassler - contemporary colorful illustrations
Florence Harrison - art nouveau childrens book fairy tale illustrations
Shahzia Sikander - contemporary Pakistani-American visual artist
Atelier Heinrichs - trippy colorful collage covers for sci fi pulps
John Macallan Swan - pretty kitties
JC Leyendecker - our fave dapper gents
Frederick Sandys - pre raphaelite paintings
Stepan Kolesnikov - realist yet stylized russian paintings
Okumi Iyo - embroidered illustrations
William Henry Barribal - colorful art deco paintings
Ilya Glazunov - russian historical/orthodox paintings in the time of communism
Igor Karash - spooky illustrations
Daud Ahkriev - his drawings of fishermen
Seiichi Hayashi - pretty, contemporary japanese manga & illustrations ft women
Nola (nolawon.art) - pretty, detailed takashi murakami-esque illustrations
Harrison Fisher - classic american illustrator, pretty women
John Austen - gorgeous black n white detailed hamlet illustrations
Gustave Moreau - fantastical & aesthetic french paintings admired by proust
Ceri Richards - welsh abstract paintings of people indoors
Otto Mueller - highly textured angular colorful paintings with bold lines
Henri Privat-Livemont - Art Nouveau posters
Giovanni di Paolo - prolific painter and illustrator of manuscripts, including Dante's texts
Ben Reeves - contemporary painter, moody & blue-heavy collages of colors
Alex Niño - amazing abstracted comic artist
Ludovic Alleaume - dreamy french paintings
Yoshiko Fukushima - unsettling figures with strange colors, superflat paintings
Zinaida Serebriakova - kind realistic russian paintings of pretty women and children
Harold Robert Millar (H.R. Millar) - famous Scottish graphic artist and illustrator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Alice Marshall - delicate illustrations of fairies on black background
Stanislaw Kamocki - colorful Polish landscape paintings
Bertha Lum - American version of Japanese woodblock prints
Raphael Kirchner - art deco fashion illustrations
Tamara de Lempicka - highly stylized art deco portraits of ladies, polish
Phil Greenwood - bright pop-y floral landscapes
Rose Cecil O'Neill - vintage illustrations & cartoons
John Rush - great use of color in figure drawings
Jean Delville - otherworldly paintings
Paul-albert Besnard - monochromatic prints
Helene Schjerfbeck - modernist subtle portraits
Heinrich Lefler - beautiful detailed narrative paintings/illustrations
Maximilian Liebenwein - art nouveau illustrations
Franklin Booth - detailed pen and ink drawings
Ulla Thynell - dreamy contemporary illustrations
Jun'ichi Nakahara - japanese graphic artist, early manga
K.F.E. von Freyhold - playful German book illustrations
Beth Billups - contemporary abstract painter
William McGregor Paxton - interior scenes of woman like Henry James depicts them
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite - Australian illustrator of children's books. Her work mostly depicted fairies
Ernest Biéler - Swiss painter, draughtsman and printmaker
Junko Ogawa (@junk_junk_junk on ig) - surreal anime style drawings
Marianne Stokes - Austrian painter, one of the leading women artists in Victorian England
Lee Mullican - abstract paintings
Rae Klein - creepy surreal paintings
#thoughts#scraps#if i cannot create then i can at least admire#recommend checking any or all of these artists out#and keeping your own artist list#it’s fun & insightful#you notice patterns#and pay more attention to the art you come across
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Welcome to my first full fanart made on digital, I'll be honest the image below is not at all coloring, cuz I'm still trying to learn that, just a base color layer I was trying to make. As for the characters, it's Gandharva and Teo Rakan from again, my latest obsession "Kubera", I just thought they fit the illustration I used as inpiration.
oh right, if any of you think the composition of the image is familiar it's because I took inspiration from one of the gorgeous pictures of the folktale "Agneta and the Sea King" from John Bauer:
#my art stuff#kubera#one last god kubera#kubera one last god#gandharva#teo rakan#not bad for my first clean ish lineart right?#and sort of base color#not that i'll use those colors#I just wanted it to stand out a little :P#my life for a lengthy and detailed coloring tutorial😭
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