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Artists Illustrating Artists
// Muddy Colors
-By Donato
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| Queen of Demons Book cover 1997 Guest appearances by Dorian Vallejo, Steve Ellis, Steve Youll and myself. |
Tilt your head a little to the left,
Bend your right elbow and keep the hand at the same level,
Show me more of your back, break your wrist, etc....
The paintings below offer a broad sampling of artists and friends I have used over the course of my career as models for commercial commissions. These are not portraits of my friends but rather their likenesses are used in the service of my narrative work. Considering no one has 'seen' these characters before, models used to interpret characters within these narratives are all strangers to my audience. Therefore I find it fun and a challenge to capture the likeness of each of my friends as a tribute to their help in advancing the quality of my work.
As I know I am not alone in this venture, do you have any like images of artists to share??
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| Journey to the Center of the Earth, 1993 Michael Mrak model (and roommate at the time) and now Design Director at Scientific American |
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| Psychohistorical Crisis, book cover, artist Dan Dos Santos (posing twice) and Carey Johnson (my wife) as models, 1999 |
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| Saint Crispin's Day - Right panel for the Battle of Agincourt triptych 2007 |
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| Red Sonya - Lover's Quarrel artist Kelley Hensing model 2011 |
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| The Night's Watch , artist Tony DiTerlizzi, writer George R.R. Martin and a host of others as players in a Game of Thrones , 2014 |
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| Fortune and Fate , book cover, artist Kristina Carroll model , 2007 |
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| Alien Crimes, book cover, artists Owen Weber, Rebecca Solow and Scott Murphy models, 2007 |
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| Reader and Raelynx, book cover, artist Scott Murphy model, 2007 |
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| Cartographer from Magic: The Gathering artist Claudia Rodriguez model 1999 |
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| Joan of Arc - On the Field art director Irene Gallo model 2010 |
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