Art & Design Blogs:
Bored Panda - Incredible Site for Finding Inspiration!
Twisted Sifter: Running Art Blog
Colossal: Art, Design, Photography & Visual Culture
Juxtapoz: Awesome Art and Culture Magazine
Hi-Fructose: The New Contemporary Art Magazine
Blue Canvas: International, Multi-Genre, Community of Artists and Art Lovers
Muddy Colors: A Fantasy Art Collective
Underpaintings Magazine: Focuses on Painting
Swiss Miss: Design Blog (Industrial Design, Photo, Text)
List of Well-Known Illustrators
Artists Network: Ideas, Inspiration and Instruction
Loosen Up! Drawing & Painting with Style & Confidence
Pose Maniacs: Practice Figure Drawing
Acrylic Painting: Will Kemp Videos
Some of Molloy's Inspiring Artists (Modern Era):
Yuko Shimizu: Japanese American Illustrator & Art School Professor at SVA NY
Agnes Cecile: Watercolor and Mixed Media Portrait
Esao Andrews: Japanese American Painter
James Jean: Japanese American Artist
Marco Mazzoni: Italian Colored Pencil Artist (Polychromos)
Gregory Euclide: Minnesota-Based Mixed Media Artist
Camille Rose Garcia: Latina American Artist and Illustrator
Hannah Faith Yata: Japanese American Painter
Stefan Bucher: American Graphic Designer (Daily Monsters)
Gabriel Moreno: Spanish Illustrator
Nicoletta Ceccoli: Italian Illustrator
Pat Perry: Drawer & Sketchbook Artist
Mark Ryden: Surrealist Painter
N.C. Winters: San Diego Based Artist
Jason Seiller: Chicago-Based International Illustrator & Digital Painter
John Leben: Digital Illustrator
Vladimir Gvozdev: Russian Steampunk Artist
Benjamin Frey: Mixed Media Drawer
N.C. Wyeth: American Painter and Illustrator
J.C. Leyendecker: American Illustrator during Golden Age
Aaron Horkey: American Graphic Designer and Poster Design
Tomislav Tomic: Pen Illustrator
Guno Park: Illustrator and Drawer
Audrey Kawasaki: Drawer & Painter
Priscilla Wong: Digital Illustrator
Lora Zombie: American Illustrator and Drawer
Lela Shields: Mixed Media Artist
Dorothy Bury Shaw: Chicago-Based Drawer
Greg 'Craola' Simkins: Painter and Graffiti Artist
Dan Wiemer: Painter and Screenprinter
David Ball: Mixed Media Collage Artist
Brian Luong: Graphic Art and Illustration
Portrait and Figure Drawing Sites:
Pose Maniacs - Figure Drawing Poses
Stan Prokopenko - Portrait and Figure Drawing Tutorials
Human Facial Proportions - Video Tutorials
Learn to Draw the Human Figure (excellent progressive video tutorials)
Photography & Digital Blogs:
Lynda: Online Video Tutorials (Photoshop, Illustrator, Camera Skills, etc.)
Chicago Photography Center (classes & workshops)
National Geographic: Photos of the Day
Online Video Tutorials (Illustrator & Photoshop)
Illustration Dan Tutorials (Illustrator)
Alumni Sites
Ambrin Ling (Carleton College and SAIC: Fine Art Major) Fine Artist
Kera Ling (Carleton College and SAIC: Fine Art Major) Fine Artist
Tiffany Do (MIAD: Industrial Design Major): Behance Industrial Designer
Marisa Melton (SCAD: Sequential Art Major) Graphic Novelist
Hannah Friedman (LCAD: Game Design Major) Game Designer
Katie McLoughlin (RISD: Illustration Major) Children's Book Illustrator
Jacob Behling: Graphic Design/Photography
Ann Ho (Northwestern: English Major) PhD Poetry & English
Michael Zhang (UIUC: Graphic Design & Painting) Graphic Designer
Abigail St. Claire (DePaul: Design Major) Designer & Illustrator
Rachel Redden Wood (SCAD: Photography Major) Wedding Photographer
Hannah Hughes (University of Tampa: Photography Major) Photographer
Carly Neil (SCAD: Fiber Arts) Fiber Artist
Michael Steinheiser: Aventure Skull Graphic Designer & Illustrator
Ryan Schultz (Northwestern & SAIC: Painting Major) Bravo's 'Work of Art'
Amy Lind (SCAD: Painting Major) Painter and Pastel Artist
Artists (painters, drawers, printmakers)
1980s & Prior
Leonardo Da Vinci
Vincent Van Gogh
Albrecht Durer
William Blake
Salvador Dali
Winslow Homer
J.M. William Turner
Michelangelo
Jan Vermeer
Edgar Degas
Eugene Delacroix
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Paul Cezanne
Claude Monet
Paul Gauguin
Rembrandt van Rijn
Caravaggio
Egon Schiele
Francis Bacon
Raphael
Pablo Picasso
August Renoir
Jacques Callot
Honore Daumier
Francisco Goya
Diego Velasquez
George Bellows
Edward Hopper
M.C. Escher
Henri Matisse
Max Beckmann
Otto Dix
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Roy Lichtenstein
Andy Warhol
Kerry James Marshall
Nick Cave
Women as Master Artists
Georgia O'Keefe
Kathe Kollwitz
Frida Kahlo
Elizabeth Catlett
Elizabeth Vigee-Le Brun
Mary Cassatt
Berthe Morisot
Tamara de Lempicka
Artemisia Gentileschi
Kara Walker