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I love Geco Hirasawa's work! Why, you may ask? Because it's chock full of eye candy. So much eye candy in fact, that it makes my eyes bleed. And for once, that's a good thing!! Here's what I know about Geco Hirasawa: She's known as "Hira Geco" in deviantART, and is said to be living in Tokyo, Japan. According to her recent journal post, she draws her linework in pencil and colors the whole thing in Adobe Photoshop. The whole...

Nook. Great illustrator. Got featured in several magazines including iDN and ImagineFX. Collaborated and produced a wonderful artbook featuring two hundred illustrators (for a cause to boot!). Did a lot of 3D stuff as well which seems to blend the 2D stuff pretty well. Does a lot of commercial work for various companies. Sorry, I'm not in the mood to do a grammar check. One of Nook's early works in '07, the "Sakura...

A simple enough question. What does the denizens of ConceptArt.org think of "tracing" as a method of learning? Gocke posed this question in the forum, and noted three ways to look at "tracing" I read that tracing an image teaches you a lot more than simply referring to the image by looking at it.  Others claim it will hinder your progress and will not really teach you anything about drawing. the_jos pointed out the uses of tracing: "First...

Do you know Tomer Hanuka? According to the innumerable sites that talk about this award-winning illustrator, he's worked with Time Magazine, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, MTV, among others. He's done a great deal of work in the funny book and fashion industry as well. According to an interview at formatmag, he got hooked on comics pretty early in his childhood in Israel. The "...whole idea of superheroes, visual icons, worlds within...

Contraomnes. An American illustrator whose portfolio packs quite a punch! (...) According to Contraomnes, his favorite artist include Tomer Hanuka, James Jean, Kent Williams, Leinil Francis Yu, Adam Hughes, Alfons Mucha, and many more... You can read more about his artistic journey at his deviantart! ...