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Report from IlluXcon 2024


Lauren Panepinto

Happy Halloween! Thanks for bearing with me last month when I was on sabbatical and talking about John Singer Sargent's watercolors (because JSS's Venice watercolors are amazing). I got home a few days before New York Comic Con, which is always a hectic time for a SFF publisher based in New York.I didn't have a lot of official duties, but we had a lot of authors come thru and visit the offices, and I tried…

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Anatomy and Studying the Muscles of the Human Body


Ron Lemen

September 30, 2024 - https://youtu.be/tznkhvvTBsY?si=2NEi9s3KUaa8_oK2 When I was first learning this art thing there were many subjects that I just didn't think would be all that important for me to be able to just sit down and create.  But as I realized the more realistic something is depicted, the more tools I had to learn to capture that realism.  Even when I was stylizing something that looked less and less realistic, I still needed to understand the logic of space, light, composition, design, and application of media.  There was no escaping the rules and tools of art if I wanted to do it professionally. My first love was comics and animation.  At the time, the only books I could find on drawing the human form were a few tombs of muscles by Joseph Sheppard and Stephen Rogers Peck.  The…

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