Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

Stuart Immonen has been posting daily caricatures based on photos he finds on Flickr. Check out his Flickr People photoset.

(via Illustration Friday)

Are you ready for Uncle Grandpa? And by that, I mean, are you ready for the trippiest cartoon you’ll likely ever see? Produced by Pete Browngardt for the Cartoon Network’s Cartoonstitute program, Uncle Grandpa has officially made my day.

Enjoy Yellow Cake, the latest animated epic by Ottawa animator Nick Cross. In production since 2006, Yellow Cake is the follow-up to Nick’s The Waif of Persephone.

Robots and Monsters, the charitable art project that offers custom-made robot and monster drawings, has relaunched with a slick new site, and a handful of new artists involved, inlcuding Drawn!’s own Adam Koford, David Huyck, and yours truly.

Here’s how it works: you donate a set amount for an original robot or monster drawing, and supply three words or phrases that one of the artists will interpret as they see fit to create your drawing. The current charity being supported is Water.org which provides access to safe water and sanitation to communities in Africa, South Asia, and South America.

Jonathon Oxlade, aka Jonny Applehead, is a theatre designer and illustrator living in Melbourne, Australia. I’m digging his collage style.

Since we blogged about Rafael in 2007, he’s been busy making some amazing work. I’m blown away by his bold blacks intermixed with tiny flecks of line for shadowing and highlight, and some amazing details that give this wonderfully tense mood to each drawing. This piece is a pin-up from his upcoming comic FURRY WATER and The Sons Of  The Insurrection, due out from Dark Horse next year. I’m definitely going to have to look for it. You can see much more over at his blog (be sure to check through the archives– there’s some beautiful superhero pinups, including this one of Batman and Robin.)

Richard Sala not only has a website (how have we not linked to this already?), he has a new book, Cat Burglar Black.

I started reading it this evening and won’t likely finish until late tonight. So far it has all of the elements I’ve come to love about Sala’s work: a creepy setting, a lovely heroine, chatty statuary, and, well, I better not spoil anything.

If you’ve never read any of his work, this is a great place to start.

Update, via Luebert in the comments: Here Lies Richard Sala.

Equal parts fascinating, adorable, informative and just plain strange– all the ingredients we come to expect from something lovable from Japan. Mameshibas “are talking beans with puppy-dog faces” who assault unsuspecting folk with strange trivia about the world we live in. Consider me sold– now all I’m wondering is when will a Mameshiba come creep me out in real life? You can see them all on their Youtube Channel.

(Thanks to Bob Flynn!)

Since we last looked at the work of Dean MacAdam, he has moved from Sweden to sunny San Diego, and to celebrate he’s launched a brand new site and loaded it up with all new work.

Diego De Rose of Wujoco Animation in Argentina shares this little gem with us. Angel Vitamina began as an idea for an animated short, but now exists as a trailer for an as-yet-unmade feature film. It looks mighty impressive. The Angel Vitamina site has more info, a photo gallery, and a fun character gallery.

Have you heard? Today is the first day of Inktober. Jake Parker explains:

It’s a month long appreciation of the art of drawing in ink and the practitioners that embrace that art. To celebrate I’m posting one ink drawing a day for the entire month. No pencils, no water colors, no photoshop, just the unadulterated black and white beauty of thick black ink on crisp white paper. Drawing with ink means commitment. There’s no hemming and hawing as to which pencil line you’re going to use, no sitting on the fence of values, no pussy footing with color. When you make your mark you better mean it. It’s black and white. True or false. On or off. And that’s what Inktober is all about.

Here’s Jake’s first Inktober drawing:

Where’s yours? Get inking!

Imagine if movie posters were more like book covers. If poster-designers were free from reams of credits.

Check out Graphic Nothing’s Movie Posters for Minimalists photoset on Flickr.

Though… they could probably even strip the word “by” from the posters as it’s fairly implicit.

via BoingBoing