Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

Another highlight from Sundance, David OReilly’s Please Say Something. Watch it with headphones on for maximum immersion.

How is it possible we’ve never linked to Dan Hay’s work? Behold!

Last weekend I attended a screening of animated shorts at the Sundance Film Festival. One of the highlights was Adrien Merigeau’s Old Fangs, seen here. There’s a production blog here.
It’s a gorgeous, evocative film. I’m glad YouTube has made it available online, though there was something very special about watching it on a big screen in a packed theater.

Jamie Wyeth was interviewed on today’s episode of RadioWest, available here. He talks about his latest exhibit “Seven Deadly Sins”, shares his thoughts on art and painting, and reminisces about his upbringing in a family of artistic giants.

No matter where you stand on the climate change issue, hopefully this blog will convince you once and for all that someone really needs to come up with a better joke about it.

Richard Thompson (for my money, one of the best in the biz*) gives us a peek under the hood with a run-down of his watercolor palette and working method, here.

*Would you like to know when I fell in love with Thompson’s work? 20 or so years ago, when I first saw this masterpiece.

From the Kirby Museum blog:

In 1969, Sheldon Feldner contacted Marvel Comics, asking if one of Marvel’s artists would be interested in designing costumes for a production of William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar by the University Theatre Company at Santa Cruz at the newly-built Cowell College of the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Enter Jack Kirby, at the height of his powers. See his sketches, including photos of two of the completed designs here.

Via Comics Comics.

Eric Daigh creates portraits with pushpins. Here’s a close-up view of “Meghan IV”. I usually don’t care for flash based portfolio sites, but in this case the zoom-in feature is essential.

Clients from Hell is “a collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers.” It’s aggravating, cathartic, and very fun to read. A recent highlight:

“I understand that you prefer to use photoshop, but we don’t feel like that program is universal enough. If you could do all of the design work in Microsoft Paint it would be easier for us to edit what you do and give you an idea of the changes we want.”

I haven’t simultaneously shuddered and laughed this much in a long time. You can also follow along on twitter.

Romanian illustrator Matei Apostolescu creates amazing and colorful toys out of polymer clay. See more of his work here.

(via Super Punch)