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Caveman
http://earoarts.blogspot.com/2010/10/concept-art-workshop-01.html

http://davidryanpaul.blogspot.com/

Bo Mathorne

http://bomathorne.blogspot.com/

Making of The Backwater Gospel

The Backwater Gospel

Weird ass animation:

"I lived on the Moon" Yannick Puig



Non narrative animation. Beautiful but wonktastically weird.

Kyle Baker

A comic artist who is a cartoonist and often does a humorist's skew to his designs and way of drawing things.  Sounds interesting.

Tim Sale

Tim Sale, is an Eisner Award-winning comic book artist. He produced popular work like Batman: The Long Halloween, Batman: Dark Victory, and books for Marvel Comics with characters such as Spider-Man, Daredevil, and Hulk. He is currently working on artwork for the popular TV show Heroes. For more information on Tim Sale, please visit his Website. 

Bernie Wrightson

His ability to use contrast, to clearly show composition while at the same time using extreme detail.  He is like JC Cole.    He drew much Frankenstein stuff and drew his work for this in the style of art at the time that Frankenstein was written, which was JC Cole style.  Contrast with Todd McFarlane, who can't do really big spread compositions well without making a big mess when he goes into extreme detail.

Tony Moore

Walking Dead artist.  A tv series exists because of his comic work of the same name.  Really good for layout and composition.  Will Eisner award winner 2004 & 2005

 

Another artist, Charlie Adlard worked on walking dead series as well.  In fact did most of it.  Tony Moore did only the first few books or so.  However, Adler's work isn't as cinematic as Moore's.  The shots taken straight out of the comics for the series are from Moore's work.

On the left is Adlard's work, on the  right is one of Moore's.  Notice that because Moore uses a hierarchy of line, value and contrast absent in Adlard's work, his panel has a more cinematic sense of depth and realism.  Adlard is very comic booky and more abstract and flat in that sense.  Not that he can't draw, Adlard just doesn't have Moore's finesse.

John Byrne

Study the fuck outta this guys layout and sequencing ability.  This guy is incredible at laying out a comic page and making excellent choices.

http://www.artofjohnbyrne.com/gallery/
http://www.artofjohnbyrne.com/gallery/pencils/

Also, he's been at it awhile:
http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/alpha-flight

Alex Toth Samples

Great iconic artist.  Study for black and white.