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Workshop at the Academy of Realist Art in Boston


Howard Lyon

I am going to be teaching a workshop at the Academy of Realist Art in Boston this summer, July 17th - 21st. I am excited to be in such a wonderful city for art and at a fantastic school. I have admired the work of Julie Beck for a long time and look forward to spending that week at the school where she teaches. The workshop will be 5 days long and I will go…

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Type 101 for Illustrators


Lauren Panepinto

May 31, 2023 - By Lauren Panepinto Like a lot of Art Directors, I was trained as a graphic designer, not an illustrator. And while there's a lot of overlap in a designer's education and an illustrator's education, the #1 difference is typography. In this (and probably a few more) posts, I'm going to pass on some simple and easy rules for working with type, to support (but not overwhelm) your illustrations. Best practice for an Illustrator's portfolio is to use as little typography as possible. In other words, pick a nice simple font and stick to it throughout. Same goes for other things you might need to put type on (prints, personal projects, promo postcards, crowdfunding graphics, etc). You're not going to go too wrong with a simple font set cleanly. Here's some good rules to start with…

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