Lindsey Clarkson

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Lindsey Clarkson specializes in digital illustration and design, but is also experienced in a variety of traditional mediums such as graphite, ink, and charcoal.

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of selected works

Paper Airplane

April 2020

The Storm

November 2019

Showman Magazine

October 2019

Hadestown Magazine

October 2019

Feature Story Page 1

October 2019

Feature Story Page 2

October 2019

Met Virtual Tour App

September 2019

Department Page

September 2019

Frankenstein Book Cover

September 2019

Star Wars Ice Cream

June 2019

"Have A Ball" Sell Sheet

June 2019

New York Posters

June 2019

Floating

April 2019

"Faraway Lands"

October 2018

Astronomy App

September 2018

Broadway App

September 2018

Vaguely Gothic

August 2018

Coffee with Milk

June 2018

Steampunk Bakery Menu

March 2018

Enchanted Bakery

November 2017

Victorian Street

October 2017

Charcoal Still Life

October 2017

Owl Tree

July 2017

Raccoon Family

July 2017

Bunny Family

July 2017

Deer Family

June 2017

Kite

June 2017

Meadow Flowers

June 2017

Wonderland

March 2017

Winding Stairs

October 2016

Ink Pen

October 2016

Restless Nights

September 2016

Portrait of Mother

June 2016

Laocoön

2015

Maiden

2015

David's Eye

2015

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from those who have worked with or commissioned Lindsey Clarkson

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"Faraway Lands" Series

A trifecta of postage-stamp inspired images created in Adobe Illustrator following the theme of fantasy lands in children's literature: Neverland from Peter Pan, Wonderland from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Oz from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Created: October 2018
Category: Digital Illustration

Vaguely Gothic

Oil on canvas; created over the course of about eight weeks. The props and color pallet for this still-life were selected with an elegant Gothic theme in mind.

Created: August 2018
Category: Traditional Art

Coffee with Milk

This still-life was painted digitally over the course of two days. I was inspired to do it on a whim after seeing a similar clip of milk being slowly poured into coffee in one of those "soothing" YouTube compilations.

Created: June 2018
Category: Digital Illustration

Enchanted Bakery

A modern-day sorceress cuddles her familiar while brewing a magical remedy. Her establishment specializes in baked goods that, when consumed, provide modest boosts in things such as stamina, memory, or the ability to wake up when your alarm clock rings without hitting 'snooze' first.

Created: January 2017
Category: Digital Illustration

Victorian Street

It's a rainy night on this Victorian London street. I painted this while listening to "Underground" by Austin Wintory, though the atmosphere of this piece isn't quite as ominous as the lyrics of that song.

Created: October 2017
Category: Digital Illustration

Still Life in Charcoal

This slightly-tarnished silver teapot was a challenge to capture, especially in charcoal.

Created: October 2017
Category: Traditional Illustration

Wonderland

When I was new to my digital illustration software, I drew this simple Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass-inspired environment. It was meant to demonstrate a sense of depth via foreground, middle-ground, and background.

Created: March 2017
Category: Digital Illustration

Winding Stairs

This is an exercise demonstrating how drawn lines can be used to give the illusion of distance and shape occupying a three-dimensional space. It was done in fine-point sharpie.

Created: October 2016
Category: Traditional Illustration

Ink Pen

A pen and ink drawn in pen and ink! This picture was an experiment in demonstrating the spectrum of value between black and white.

Created: October 2016
Category: Traditional Illustration

Restless Nights

The second line in Alfred Noyes's poem The Highwayman is: "The moon was a ghostly galleon/ tossed upon the cloudy seas". That line caused me to imagine this fanciful image of the moon literally floating in water and being tossed around by waves.

Created: September 2016
Category: Digital Illustration

Portrait of my Mother

My mother, Laura, sat for this charcoal portrait one summer day a few years ago.

Created: June 2016
Category: Traditional Illustration

Laocoön

In Greek Mythology, Laocoön tried to warn the Trojans not to take the suspicious wooden horse into their city, so the gods sent giant snakes to silence him and his two sons. I was able to use a plaster replica of the statue "Laocoön and His Sons" (the head portion, anyway) as the subject of this study.

Created: 2015
Category: Traditional Illustration

Maiden

I received much valuable instruction from a particular art studio near my hometown; it had several plaster-cast busts available for study. Seen here is my charcoal rendering of one such bust, featuring a tranquil young woman.

Created: 2015
Category: Traditional Illustration

David's Eye

One of my earliest attempts at drawing with charcoal, featuring a close look at the eye of Michelangelo's famous "David" sculpture.

Created: 2015
Category: Traditional Illustration

Floating

The moon and stars are some of my favorite motifs for fanciful, dreamlike illustrations.

Created: April 2019
Category: Digital Illustration

New York Posters

When I interned at The GRO Agency in Manhattan, I was asked to create two posters. The first was to have the words “NEW YORK CITY” stacked on top of each other, with the letters looking like they were painted with a dripping brush. Aside from those aspects I was told to be creative, so I decided to incorporate the skyline into the words at different times of day. For the second poster, I was shown a paper coffee cup and asked to recreate it as an illustration. Once that was done and printed, I stained the rim of the cup and a few splashes near the base of it with a teabag for a special touch. Both these posters were displayed in the hallway outside of the office suite.

Created: June 2019
Category: GRO

"Have A Ball" Sell Sheet

When I interned at The GRO Agency in Manhattan, one of my tasks was to design a sell sheet for Have A Ball snacks. This involved creating mockups of the packages and arranging the basic layout/look of the sell sheet with the body copy to be added later.

Created: June 2019
Category: GRO

Star Wars Ice Cream

When I interned at The GRO Agency in Manhattan, I was able to participate in the development of limited edition Star Wars ice cream sandwiches, which hit stores recently. Here are some of the packaging mockups I did according to the regulations I was given.

Created: June 2019
Category: GRO