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A girl, a witch and a firebird

Posted in visual stimuli by pea on June 17th, 2006

Ivan Bilibin - Opening Illustration for 'The Firebird and the Grey Wolf' (1899)

Through a fortunate coincidence I was recently introduced to the work of Russian born illustrator Ivan Bilibin (1876-1942), the beauty of which blew me away.

A large number of his haunting and expressive drawings revolve around Slavic mythology and are usually set against the mountains and forests of Old Russia. (read on »)

Two cliff ogres

Posted in visual stimuli by pea on May 30th, 2006

Cliff Ogres by Scott C.

Just wanted to share this brilliant drawing by Scott C. These are the sort of drawings I used to really love as a child. In fact they remind me vaguely of Quentin Blake’s drawings - long time illustrator for Roald Dahl books, which I used to read when I was younger. This one was done for an upcoming Fantagraphics book about mythical creatures. Worth keeping an eye on if you ask me.

If you want you can send Scott C a comment on his blog.