^ Agreed.
At the agency, we were often sent these huge hard-backed catalogues, containing various portfolios of many different artists - kind of like a commission agency for potential blue-chip clients.

I spent many a lunch break browsing through these, and a lot of the artists featured were draftsmen, technical illustrators, and as you mention, the detail, and accuracy of the work really was amazing.

I like a lot of the photorealism work too, often created in acrylics (just type in 'photorealism' in Deviantart.com) - but the engineered drawings are in a completely different league.

You don't see many illustrations rendered using markers any more either, I was often fascinated by the techniques used to blend the colours, and give the illusion of transparency too, something which I could never get to grips with.
(danniekavanagh did nothing constructive on, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 13:52, Reply)