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Greg Houston

Baltimore illustrator Greg Houston creates some delightfully twisted illustrations. Just take his Michael Jackson portrait for example… yowzers! The image shown here is called “Meat Boy and His Family”

  • http://maledei.de/blog/2006/01/12/greg-houston/ Greg Houston at male.dei

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  • http://utopiamoment.blogspot.com/ Jack Ruttan

    Something I don’t get. Does he hate, or is terrified, by everyone he sees? Anna Nicole Smith and Michael Jackson I can understand. And the political types. But I see him running into the same problem Gerald Scarfe did. Once he portrays some minor labour leader as the ultimate demon of the universe, what does he do for someone really scary? Mind you, I like what he did with Margaret Thatcher, who may have filled that bill.

  • http://utopiamoment.blogspot.com Jack Ruttan

    Something I don’t get. Does he hate, or is terrified, by everyone he sees? Anna Nicole Smith and Michael Jackson I can understand. And the political types. But I see him running into the same problem Gerald Scarfe did. Once he portrays some minor labour leader as the ultimate demon of the universe, what does he do for someone really scary? Mind you, I like what he did with Margaret Thatcher, who may have filled that bill.

  • http://www.duvekot.ca/eliane eliane

    Jack, I was just about to ask the very same thing. I have researched a lot of portrait-illustrators lately, because I am going to have to do a lot of portraying myself. And I noticed that a lot of those illustrators really seem to hate everybody they draw, very strange indeed. I am the opposite, I find myself e-mailing to my editor “isn’t he cute?” and stuff like that. But then I am of course a girl.

  • http://www.duvekot.ca/eliane eliane

    Jack, I was just about to ask the very same thing. I have researched a lot of portrait-illustrators lately, because I am going to have to do a lot of portraying myself. And I noticed that a lot of those illustrators really seem to hate everybody they draw, very strange indeed. I am the opposite, I find myself e-mailing to my editor “isn’t he cute?” and stuff like that. But then I am of course a girl.

  • http://www.cabanadigital.com/ Pati @-;–

    There something about his work that reminds me the darkest Dali’s paintings.
    Despite his atmosphere, I find his illustrations and paintings pretty cool.

  • http://www.cabanadigital.com Pati @-;–

    There something about his work that reminds me the darkest Dali’s paintings.
    Despite his atmosphere, I find his illustrations and paintings pretty cool.

  • jack1

    This seems more like painting than illustrative work. A fine line, I know, but maybe this is a good place for me to ask: where’s the line? I’ve worked a lot in pen & ink… but never asked for an answer on this before.

  • jack1

    This seems more like painting than illustrative work. A fine line, I know, but maybe this is a good place for me to ask: where’s the line? I’ve worked a lot in pen & ink… but never asked for an answer on this before.

  • http://www.duvekot.ca/eliane eliane

    @ Jack1: I don’t think it is so much the fine line between painting than illustrative work. I think it’s the line between illustrating and portraying. I usually do edtorial illustration, but gradually I am doing more and more portraits. And I notice a distinct difference. In my editorials I have to think about the content, the idea, quite different from looking for likeness and getting across the character of a single person.

  • http://www.duvekot.ca/eliane eliane

    @ Jack1: I don’t think it is so much the fine line between painting than illustrative work. I think it’s the line between illustrating and portraying. I usually do edtorial illustration, but gradually I am doing more and more portraits. And I notice a distinct difference. In my editorials I have to think about the content, the idea, quite different from looking for likeness and getting across the character of a single person.