Blogger Filboid Studge (see also: Irv Spence’s Cartoon Diary) offers up a whole mess of old timey humour illustration from his collection of old Life magazines dating from the late 19th to the early 20th century, focusing on classic cartoonists. He’s covered early T.S. Sullivant and James Montgomery Flagg, among others, and his current entry on Warner Brothers director Bob Clampett unearths the legend’s first published work (as a 12 year old!) in the LA Times Junior Times.
There is some truly amazing artwork to be discovered here… Consider this baby bookmarked!
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In addition to a variety of sketches, 3D models, and digital paintings, artist Steve James also keeps a fantastic blog with some beautiful portrait work.
This is my favourite image from Bobby Chiu’s new book Creature Sketches. The book is filled with some of the most creative and imaginative drawings of monsters, creatures, and whatsits — it’s like visiting a zoo from another planet. I’m already waiting for the sequel. Chiu and the handful of guest artists in the book are all quite deft at digital painting… it’s a great book for anyone interested in character design of the not-of-this-earth variety.
As you may or may not know, the legendary punk rock group The New York Dolls, recently went back into the studio to make a new album called One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This. A new video (or “fun nugget†as I like to call it) has just been released for the first single, “Dance Like A Monkeyâ€. The video was directed by Dano Johnson and was animated by both Dano and R. Don Smith (both of Austin, TX). Don used Flash to animate his scenes while Dano used After Effects to both animate and to composite the video together. Check the video out on the record label’s website or on YouTube and you’ll be calling it a fun nugget too.
Stephen’s Silver’s latest book of sketches, Stephen Silver’s Sketchbook is great fun. The book makes its official debut at the San Diego Comic Con this weekend (visit Stephen at booth H6). I just received my copy, and it’s a thing of beauty.
The book is cleverly designed to look like one of Stephen’s actual lunchtime sketchbooks loaded with character drawings, complete with spiral binding, and a thick cardboard backing. Unlike Stephen’s previous books, the pages of which often contained cut-up collages of various sketches from different sources, this latest book preserves Stephen’s sketchbook pages as is, and flipping through it actually looks and feels like you’re holding the real deal.
Stephen says that one of the reasons he preserved the pages in full was so he could share his creative process, the good along with the bad. But don’t listen to a word he says — there isn’t a bad drawing to be found in here. You can order the book at Stephen’s website for a cool $20.
The Museum of Black Superheroes is your one-stop resource for articles, galleries, and the history of black superheroes in the world of comic books, TV, and movies. I was pleased to see they even included my personal childhood favourite: the Brown Hornet!
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The images from Norway’s Annlaug Auestad are adorable. If, like me, you don’t speak a lick of Norwegian, just happily click everything like I did — I’m sure you’ll find something you like. Worthy of note are the sketchy paper collage/sculpture illustrations.
Reader Feanne has begun a daily drawing project. It’s about as simple as it gets, but how can one argue with the criteria: One drawing every day, any size, any medium, it doesn’t have to be perfect, it doesn’t have to be any good, it just has to be done every day.
But why stop at one?
Frank Stockton’s sketchbook pages are overflowing with wonderfully imaginative doodles, drawings, and sketches. You can almost see the pure concentrated creativity oozing out of his brain…
Saturday July 22
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm making art at the Gladstone, 2nd floor
9:00 pm – 10:00 pm Queen Street installations
All Ages, Free or PWYC, BYOMarkers
The Toronto Public Space Committee presents Art Attack, an evening of art-making, music and public space beautification. Art Attack will transform the Gladstone into an art factory complete with paper, art supplies and live music. Later in the evening Art Attack will move outdoors and place the fresh artwork over commercial advertising space.
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