Tumblr artists (general overview)

Many illustrators can be found on Tumblr ; some who share fanart and their drawings freely, some who take comissions for their work and the ones still learning who share hoping for their work to be constructively criticized. Comics, fanart, illustrations that are made from scratch and eveything in between can be found if you know where to look.

From the ones who take comissions, prices vary depending on who they are and what you want ( lineart, doodle, simple coloring, the level of shading, complicated/smple bakground, how many characters despicted…) .

I won’t showcase their works here because most do not like their artwork reposted without permission or at all, so i’ll talk a litle about a few of them and give you links!

Of course, I can’t talk about every single artist on the site, that would take years but here are a few of them that I follow :

Mars (smokeplanet) is a comic book artist. Their comic Long exposure (http://longexposurecomic.com/) is currently on-going . They sell merch about the comic and the comic itself – when the chapter ends and can be printed – .

Blinddetermination is also a comic book artist (http://blinddetermination.tumblr.com/) but instead of it being her/his own charaters, he/she has a fan comic.

Phobs (http://phobso.tumblr.com/)  is an amazing artist. Her digital art and sketches are incredible.She’s also a comic book artist.

RegectedPrincesses (http://rejectedprincesses.tumblr.com/ is her tumblr  and this http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/ is her site) is an illustrator who illustrates ‘Women too Awesome, Awful, or Offbeat for Kids’ Movies’. Historical figures, myths and some from literature, thoug most of them are historical. She has already published a book and is on her way to her second one. She reacherses the history and crossreferences this women and then illustrates their story.

These are just a few of the artists that can be found. Most artists from tumblr have a Patreon where their followers can donate to help them keep it goin, or to pa for comissions.Some have printed works you can buy too.

 

Yoshitaka Amano (天野 喜孝 )

Yoshitaka Amano ( 天野 喜孝 ) is an fantasy illustrator and animation character designer. He was born in 1952 in a small town at the foot of mount Fuji in Shizuoka, Japan. As a child, he reveled in making unbroken loops of drawings on the huge paper rolls that his brother brought home from his job at a paper factory. “I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t making drawings,” he recalls. While visiting a friend in Tokyo in 1967, he boldly took his paintings to the animation studio Tatsunoko Productions, creators of Space Ace and Mach Go Go Go. His talent was instantly recognized, and at the age of 15, his family reluctantly moved him to a company dormitory in the capital city. After a year of training, Amano took part in designing characters for many of Tatsunoko’s greatest cartoons, including Gatchaman (released in the US as G-Force and Battle of the Planets), Hutch the Honeybee, and Cashaan: Robot Hunter.

Yet after fifteen years with the animation studio, Amano began to grow restless. He tendered his resignation at the age of 30, exchanging his established career for the precarious life of a freelancer that he still lives by today, sucessfuly.

 

Yoshitaka Amano incorporates a breadth of influences into his illustrative mixed-media paintings. Amano’s work fuses the fine arts with pop culture and design, also integrating European Art Nouveau style and traditional Japanese brushwork. His fantasy scenes are detailed and delicate illustrations of imaginative narratives, often including villains, armored heroes, and monsters. Their energetic poses and saturated colors are akin to the comic book aesthetic of manga and anime, revealing the lingering influence of his early work as an animator.

Tyrus Wong and Bambi

Tyrus Wong was the person who was Disney’s ‘Bambi’ main concept artist.
By using soft-edged, ethereal watercolor shapes for the forest scenes rather than the highly detailed renderings that had traditionally been used, Wong introduced a new, more subtle style—a look and feel that appealed to Walt, who wanted to do something different with Bambi. Wong’s creations evoked emotional responses that were in tune with the beautifully dark and mysterious mood presented in Felix Salten’s,Bambi, A Life in the Woods, and his work was described by fellow artists as a kind of visual poetry and they weren’t wrong.

He passed away in 2016, when he was 106.He was widely considered one of the most celebrated Chinese American artists of the 20th century.