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A personal reference library of artists where I've said, "What was the name of that artist again?" with my notes for easy future reference.

Pre-20th Century

1471-1528, German Renaissance

Famous old woodcut engraving prints. Line art.

Aubrey Beardsley

1872-1898, English

Black ink illustrations inspired by Japanese woodcut prints. Key figure in Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movement (friends with Oscar Wilde).

Gustave Dore

1832-1883, French

The OG wood engraving artist. Did art for classic literature including Vulgate Bible and Dante's Divine Comedy. Also did

paintings
.

20th~ Century Masters

Charles Gibson

1867-1944, American

Known for the "Gibson Girl" and old American magazine ink hatching style.

Egon Schiele

1890-1918, Austrian

Early expressionism. Mentored by Gustav Klimt. Pronounced "shee-lay".

Elenore Abbott

1885-1935, American

Beautiful shape language and colours. Soft and striking. Harsh vibrant reds. Book illustrator.

Grant Wood

1891-1942, American

Known for

American Gothic
. But I like him for his charcoal drawings.Great value control, composition, and graphical shape language.

Heinrich Kley

1863-1945, German

Gestural and lively scribbly illustrations. Inspired Disney.

1874-1951, American

Famous American commercial artist. Known for draftsmen-like paint strokes, shape language, graphical compositions, all-American men.

John Singer Sargent

1856-1925, American

American painter (oil and watercolour). Portrait master, great value control, good edge control.

Kay Nielsen

1886-1957, Danish

Fairy tale, elaborate, decorative, shojo-coded. Responsible for

some Fantasia concept art
. Looks like Euro Yoshitaka Amano

Lyonel Feininger

1871-1956, German-American

Known for not only his expressionism artworks, but also a comic known as

The Kin-der-kids
.

NC Wyeth

1882-1945, American

One of the most famous American illustrators. Fantastic colour and values. High imagination and rich narratives. Son is

Andrew Wyeth
.

Nicolai Fechin

1881-1955, American

Beautiful messy harsh brush strokes. Painter.

Norman Lindsay

1879-1969, Australian

Etcher artist. Light-based crossed contours. Intricate line work.

Theodor Kittelsen

1857-1914, Norwegian

Known for his depiction of forest trolls, fairy tale drawings, and depictions of forests.

Modern Day

1948-2017. American

Comic and novel illustrator. Famous for Swamp Thing and Frankenstein illustrations. Intricate line and ink work.

French

Lively gestural and lovely illustrations of characters, animals, and creatures. Interesting charcater designs. Looks similar to Heinrich Kley.

American

Film and games concept artist. Known for incredible brushwork in paintings and being one of the first major digital painters. Disco Elysium inspiration. Beautiful gestures.

David Wiesner

American

Children's books author, known for wordless stories. Fantastic narratives and worlds with dream-like imagery.

American

Brilliant colours and illustrations. Master of colour and light. Draws dinosaurs.

Jim Woodring

American

Psychedelic illustrator. Wavy woodprint-like ink drawings. Created 'Frank'. Visions of Frank

1975-2022, Korean

Expressive characters, dense settings, pen and ink, 5-point perspective. Founded and taught art collective SuperAni with artists that follow his teachings. Students include

Jae Kwang Park
&
Dong Ho Kim
.

American

Expressive wet-on-wet oil painting. Focus on women and contemporary settings. Dusty grey skins.

American

Graphite and oil paintings. Generally surreal, existentially horror-adjacent. Junji Ito meets Steven Zapata.

Russian

Unbelievably expressive brush strokes in paintings. Wonderful portraiture, sensitive edge control and composition.

American

Great expression capture on portraits.

American

High motion, gestural, force, loves to paint boxers and men pulling ropes.

American

Oil painter. Extremely expressive graphical shape language. Known for Western art, Black cowboys, native americans. Graphical essences of Klimt. Inspired by colors and style of

American

Comics and film concept artist. Amazing gestures and collages of lively people.