Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

I picked up James Jean’s Process Recess 2 at the local comic shop yesterday. It’s 64 pages and full of already-classic illustrations, like “Sex Ed” (featured as a full-sized fold-out) and “Crowdsourcing“, but also personal paintings which you may not have seen before.

The first thing worth mentioning: It’s big. Chris Pitzer (publisher) and James Jean designed the book at 15″ x 11″, so that each page would be big enough to cut out, frame, and hang on your wall (thankfully – crop marks included). So basically, we’re getting 22 stunning art prints for 20 bucks (the current Amazon price).

Of course, the book is also about process, so the reverse of each page has a breakdown of the various stages of the creation of the image: thumbnails, sketches, notes on media, tight pencils, acrylics – and then the mysterious leap to the Photoshopped final, probably involving inversions, colour burns and a heaps of James Jean magic.

Also of interest:
James Jean Interview
Frank Frazetta Artwork