Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

Brian Biggs is easily one of my favourite children’s illustrators and I’ve been eagerly following his forays into screen printing (snagging a swell robot print along the way), so his most recent blog post is a real treat.

Brian shares a bit of his process, and walks us through the steps it took for him to take this:

…and turn it into this:

The end of the year is never the end of the year without JibJab’s musical take on things. This time around, their signature cut-out style is achieved by—of all things—cut-out paper. Watch Never a Year Like ‘09.

I visited Evan at JibJab earlier in the year and he told me how he really wanted to bring more stop motion and hand-made touches to the work they do, and he wasn’t kidding.

One of the things I love about JibJab’s videos of late is the extensive behind-the-scenes looks at pretty much every aspect of producing their shorts. The Making of Never a Year Like ‘09 is chock full of animatics, production art, and more goodies for every single scene in the piece—a goldmine of inspiration for anyone interested in creating low-fi, hand-made animation.

See also: JibJab’s 2008 and 2007 in review.

Artist Scott Teplin has created this superb series of 26 letterpress dream-houses, each designed from the letters of the alphabet: Alphabet City. The prints are $80 each, and the entire set is available in a bound volume for $2000.

I enjoyed this little animated Christmas card from Picasso Pictures.

My pal Aaron Leighton (previously) worked with zinc Roe Design to create these fun little iPhone games for little kiddehs. Check out how much fun they’re having:

Ever wonder what you can do with a glow stick? Draw billions of picture with them in the air of course!
I swear animators are the most obsessive people around…. they really make every one else look like they have no attention span whatsoever.
The creator is Dee Pee Studios, which seems to be mostly one Darcy Prendergast.

Brilliant. Matt Kish is creating one drawing for every page of Moby Dick.

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Illustrator Steve Mack is uploading some gorgeous cards to his Flickr stream. A new one each day!

“A collection of my personal greeting card illustrations for the year 2009. I will be uploading one card per day until Christmas Morning.”

The Art of Hand Lettering blog showcases some of the custom lettering work of Alan Ariail.

Love: the found-art sculptures of Michael Johansson.

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