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@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 15, 2026, 9:18 AM

For #OCTOBER 1989
‘Smaug’
Roger Garland (1950-2017)
*The 1989 J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar* (Ballantine Books) for October
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #RogerGarland #JRRTolkien #TheHobbit

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 15, 2026, 9:05 AM

#Fortune for #OCTOBER 1942
‘Steel, Allocations & Scrap’
Illustration by Peter Piening (1908-1977)
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Cover of *Fortune*, October 1942
#FortuneCover #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #graphicdesign #PeterPiening #WW2 #steel #steelindustry

image from https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021/01/fortune-magazine-part-3.html:
‘M. Peter Piening (1908 - 1977) born in Grabow, Germany, was a German-American graphic designer as well as professor of advertising design and director of the design centre at Syracuse University. Piening spent his early career freelancing as an illustrator and artist for various publishing companies, eventually settling in Paris to work for Conde-Nast's French publication of Vogue. In 1934 he moved to the United States to work in Conde-Nast's New York City office. For the next two decades, Piening worked for many important advertising agencies and magazine publishers, including the N. W. Ayer and J. Walker Thompson agencies and Life and Fortune magazines. As art director for Life in the 1930s and for Fortune in the 1940s, Piening completely redesigned the layout of each magazine. He also redesigned the layouts for thirty-four other major American magazines, including Town & Country and Cosmopolitan.’

@amillus.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 6:05 PM

AI44 winner DON KILPATRICK @donkilpatrick.bsky.social
Fever Dream. From the solo gallery show titled Beneath the Frozen Suns with M Contemporary Art gallery. January 2025.

#AmericanIllustration #ai44 #Illustrator
#illustrationartists #editorialillustration #illustration #poster

@amillus.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 5:59 PM

AI44 winner @chamisa.bsky.social @studio.chamisa
Everyday Goddesses: The Wise OneEveryday Goddesses is a series I made last year and collected in a calendar. #Illustrator
#illustrationartists #editorialillustration #illustration

@shouxin.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 2:32 PM

Little kitten expressions today.
A few simple lines, and each tiny face already has its own mood.
Maybe the smallest expression says the most.
#shouxinsketch #petart #animalart #illustrationartists #sketch

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 9:15 AM

For #OCTOBER 2001
‘The End of All Things’
#JohnHowe (b. 1957)
Cover #illustration for Christopher Tolkien, *The End of the Third Age* (1998)
Reproduced *Tolkien Calendar 2001* (HarperCollins) for October
#illustrationart #illustrationartists #JRRTolkien #TheLordOfTheRings #LOTR

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 9:13 AM

For #OCTOBER 1991
‘The Dark Tower’
John Howe (b. 1957)
*The Tolkien Calendar 1991* (Unwin Paperbacks) for October
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #JohnHowe #JRRTolkien #TheLordOfTheRings #LOTR

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 9:09 AM

“Series opener” by Charles Einstein
‘This was it - Ben’s first World Series game. And for all the sports writers and the fans knew, he wasn’t even in it.’
*Collier’s*, October 14, 1955
#illustrationart #illustrationartists #DomLupo #baseball #WorldSeries #lockerroom

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 9:09 AM

#OTD in 1955
‘The look the manager gave Ben said, I won’t tell these writers one word - they’d never understand’
Illustration by Dom Lupo (1919-2013) for ➡️
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DomLupo

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 9:04 AM

In #OCTOBER 1955
‘Your life has been touched by their magic’
Illustration by ‘#RUDI’
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#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #industrialsublime
‘... Few people stop to realize how much their *own* lives have been bettered by America’s vast engineering talent ➡️

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 8:51 AM

In #OCTOBER 1946
‘There’s no law anywhere that says you can’t make love while you’re waiting for a hitch’
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Illustration by Jon Whitcomb (1906-1988) for ➡️
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #JonWhitcomb #mensfashion #womensfashion #1940s

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 8:30 AM

In #OCTOBER 1943
‘To Hit where it Hurts’
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Illustration by Ralph Crawley
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #RalphCrawley #industrialsublime #shipbuilding
‘The strategy of attack is now turning the tide ➡️

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 8:11 AM

#Fortune for #OCTOBER 1939
Illustration by Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994)
Cover of *Fortune*, October 1939
#FortuneCover #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #graphicdesign #AntonioPetruccelli

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 7:18 AM

October 1930.
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #dogs #dogcare #petcare

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 7:15 AM

#OTD in 1922
Illustration by J. C. Leyendecker (1874-1951)
Cover of *The Saturday Evening Post*, October 14, 1922.
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #JCLeyendecker #mensfashion #dogs #puppies #collie

@rayraydraws2001.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 2:25 AM

My OC as a astronaut in space station.
Took me about over week to get this done. #art #artist #digitalart #digitalpainting #digitalartist #drawing #draw #illustration #illustrationartists #pencildrawing #2d #2dart #cave #blueskyartists #ocgirl #shorthair #fanart #artwork #space #astronaut

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 9:25 AM

‘In substance they have no connection with *The Silmarillion*, being in fact the beginnings of (versions of) the poems “Errantry” and “The Adventures of Tom Bombadil”’
#JRRTolkien #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #Silmarillion #TomBombadil

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 9:18 AM

In #OCTOBER 1955
‘The How of Space Travel by Willy Ley’
Cover of *Galaxy Science Fiction*, October 1955
Cover art by Walt Disney Productions
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #WillyLey #SpaceTravel #SciFi #ScienceFiction #WaltDisneyProductions

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 9:17 AM

In #OCTOBER 1953
‘One Problem Settled . . . For Good!’
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#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #industrialsublime

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 8:51 AM

#Fortune in #OCTOBER 1940
Illustration by John F. Wilson
Cover of *Fortune*, October 1940.
#FortuneCover #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #graphicdesign #JohnFWilson #sailingship #steamship #propeller #nauticaldesign #nauticalengineering