illustration: October 2009 Archives

From Nagel to Niemann

From Nagel to Niemann

I recently visited the National Portrait Gallery in London which got me thinking about editorial portraits. In magazine design, more often than not, photography is the star of the show. But there are more great illustrators today than ever before, and I will always have a special respect for artists who can take an image like a basic portrait and transform it into something uniquely their own---through drawing. Maybe it's a side-effect of my own unrealized dreams of becoming a really cool, famous painter. But for now, I'll settle for being cool by association.
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