Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

I am loving the simple, abstracted and almost screen-printed look of the work of Jean-Manuel Duvivier. Be sure to also check out his horoscope and mythology series:

I am probably late to the game when it comes to sharing these, but Cheeming Boey’s Sharpie and Coffee Cup art is just great. Who needs fancy art supplies? Here’s how he does it:

And if you seen the cups, but haven’t been to his website to read his cute little journal comics, you are missing out:

Animator Mike Scott sends in this ridiculously fun music video he created for the Capetown, South Africa band Goldfish and their song Fort Knox. Made using Photoshop, Anime Studio Pro, and Final Cut.

The combination of silliness and simplicity of Luke Butler’s series of Star Trek paintings, Enterprise, is right up my alley. His paintings seem to capture both the campiness and the pure spirit of adventure of the original series.

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Continuing with the Gobelins animation (which I’m sad to say I’ve only now heard of!) comes this little gem from five students. It’s 3-D, but made to look as if it weren’t– and it really succeeds. I want to make every person working on 3-D blockbuster movies watch this. It doesn’t have to look like Shrek or Madagascar or any of those other copy-cats!

Er, I’ll get off my soapbox now. But I’m really enchanted with the world enveloped in this short and hope that les Manèges continue to make wonderful animations and show the world that there is a lot of life in 3-D animation– we just don’t know it yet.

Concept art by the team is also up at Alexis Liddell’s blog. Animation by Nicolas Athane,  Brice Chevillard, Alexis Liddell, Mai Nguyen and Françoise Losito.

The latest short to come out of the Gobelins animation school is The Lighthouse Keeper, and it is stunning. So much suspense and beauty is packed into this three minutes of traditional 2D animation.

It’s the work of Gaëlle Thierry, Jérémie Moreau, Rony Hotin, Baptiste Rogron, Maïlys Vallade, and David François.

Chris Appelhans has posted some lovely concept art for Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. So great!

And if you missed it, check out my interview with Fantastic Mr. Fox storyboard artist Christian De Vita.

Expozine – Montreal’s greatest 2-day zine fair and one of our favourite art events is kickin it this weekend.

I can’t make it this year, but Drawn-editor and cartoonist John Martz will be there along with cartoonists, Aaron Costain, Billy Mavreas, Kate Beaton, and many more.

This year there will also be workshops and panel-discussions including Peggy Burns (Drawn & Quarterly) and Nadia Moss (artist).

A documentary about Ed Embereley and the impact of his book Make a World? Yes, please!

Ed Emberley’s books were an integral part of my creative childhood — and my creative adulthood. I can’t wait to see this: Ed Emberely’s Make a World: The Film.

Heh.

BlackYard is an illustration and design collective from Bern, Switzerland comprising Jared Muralt (whose work is shown here), Silvio Brügger, Philipp Thöni, and Christian Calame.

Watch Chris Piascik draw an improvised drawing from start to finish. Chris explains that these doodles start with him randomly scribbling out a loopy pattern and then filling it in. I’m quite impressed with the quality of production in this video; I’d love to see a whole series with all sorts of artists.