Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

Best Use of Exploitative Tactics by Curtis Baigent and Sean Dekkers. Never has animated fruit been so, er, uh, evocative.

Enjoy this short promo for yesterday’s Challenge Your World event in Montreal. Created by Yann Benedi and Céline Desrumaux, I like the combination of 2D and 3D techniques, and the nod to An Inconvenient Truth.

Check out Céline’s blog for some process drawings.

Designer and illustrator Ty Wilkins (founder of Type Theory) has a small (but hopefully growing) collection of animal illustrations made up of a nice mix of vector shapes and hand-painted textures.

One of the most eye-catching books in the bookstore this season is The Red Shoes [Amazon Link] – illustrated by Sun Young Yoo. The book is a re-telling of the classic Andersen fairy tale with lush linework. It’s dark illustrations evoke Edward Gorey with a touch of Manhwa (Korean comics). Definitely check it out if you can.

This is my favourite page… the hair becomes a river.

The book is published by Ammo books who just released the popular edition of Charley Harper’s ouevre (our review here). Looking forward to more from Ammo.

Totally check out these amazing drumskin paintings by Aimée van Drimmelen. And Etsy shop!

Here’s another…

Before you watch this insane music video by Jérémie Perin, note that is totally not safe for work. Its video-game inspired animation contains pixellated 8-bit depictions of both sex and pooping. The YouTube description reads “Think Spielberg’s Duel + Russ Meyer’s Faster Pussycat Kill Kill! and Marc Dorcel’s wildest fantasies.”

But what it lacks in decorum, it totally makes up for in animated awesomeness. The look is a pixel-perfect replication of the era of video games I grew up playing. And though it’s sad that there are no more games being made that look like this, I am thrilled to be living in an age when the kids who grew up with this aesthetic are now the grown-ups making new things of their own.

Wonderful little visual essay by Christoph Niemann in the NY Times using only leaves to illustrate his ideas.

via Kottke

Back in 2005 John Martz posted the work of Brian Despain. Johnny loves robots and lamented that there wasn’t more of Despain’s robot artwork available. Well now there is! Despain has a current exhibition at the Roq La Rue Gallery (with John Brophy) running until Dec. 5, 2009.

… and now you can even watch the artist explain why he loves to paint robots:

Brian Despain’s website

Another awesome animated music video from Montrealers, Fluorescent Hill (Previously on Drawn). Slick, highly stylized, fun + Tom Waits as a toxic cloud tormenting an urban landscape.

(via @frank000)

A convincing argument that the Trajan font has somehow come to dominate movie posters of the world.

Also see: Helvetica is the movie font.

Congratulations to Janice Nadeau, the wonderful Montreal artist who just won a Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award for her illustrations in the children’s book, Harvey.

You can see a cross-section of Janice’s books and illustrations on her site. Also, check out Nadeau’s great patterns (example below).