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There has never been a proper textbook on the history of illustration. It’s important, not just for training students but for representing the field and its legacy to the world.

In order to help get a textbook going, I have written a SURVEY to help determine the content, scope, format, and tone of a potential textbook. Whitney Sherman, an instructor at the Maryland Institute College of Art, co-authored the SURVEY, and it was checked over by a range of qualified people. We don’t have plans to write one ourselves - we just see the need for information for whoever does. The  New York Society of Illustrators is sponsoring this SURVEY.

Now it’s YOUR turn - have your say, as a teacher, student, collector, or scholar:

SURVEY

Oh, and it’s Arthur William Brown, circa 1945, New York, unidentified model, and it’s important because Brown was one of the biggest promoters of illustration in his day and a big influence on the evolution of sexualized beauty standards, for better and worse. Original on file at Society of Illustrators.

Illustrator and comic artist Dennis Culver is selling his spare copy of TOTH: BLACK & WHITE right now on ebay for $40. It normally sells on Amazon for over $100, just FYI.

(via eBay and Twitter)

drawnblog:

brianwood:

I am offering a free download of the entire 132-page Public Domain 2 artbook.  It’s about 115 megs, nicely high res, and looks great imported onto my iphone and ipad.  It represents about a decade of sketches and random art.

If you like it, please pick up a copy of the signed and numbered ltd ed print book!  Khepri’s selling the remaining stock, both editions, and its the only place you can pick it up.  There will be no further editions of the book beyond this.  Also be sure to check out the mini-screenprints.

Enjoy!

Click to download (direct link to pdf, right-click to save)

WOW! This is pretty fabulous! Thanks Brian. :)

For anyone who tried downloading this the other day, we noticed the URL resulted in an error page in some browsers because some characters in the link were capitalized when they should have been lowercase. Try this instead: http://www.brianwood.com/pd2.pdf

brianwood:

I am offering a free download of the entire 132-page Public Domain 2 artbook.  It’s about 115 megs, nicely high res, and looks great imported onto my iphone and ipad.  It represents about a decade of sketches and random art.

If you like it, please pick up a copy of the signed and numbered ltd ed print book!  Khepri’s selling the remaining stock, both editions, and its the only place you can pick it up.  There will be no further editions of the book beyond this.  Also be sure to check out the mini-screenprints.

Enjoy!

Click to download (direct link to pdf, right-click to save)

WOW! This is pretty fabulous! Thanks Brian. :)