24.3.09

Herbert Morton Stoops Illustrations 8

These are images I got off the internet - so technically, the copyrights to these images belong to the respective owners of the original art.
Stoops is all about impressionism - he's got great draftsmanship, but there's often a minimalist, spontaneous, sketchy look - there's a lot of scratchy noodling, but his compositions have a sense of bold simplicty and strong contrast in design. In his pen and ink work, he uses blacks to great effect - lots of large, areas of shading done with brush - he's all about chiaroscuro - stylistically, he's very comic book-friendly - he has a cartoony quality, and he's dynamic and expressive as well.

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