Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

Pigeon Post’s series of Valentines illustrations are based on love myths and legends from around the world, and are visually inspired by folk art and postage stamps from the 40s and 50s.

Fernando Vicente’s caricature blog is made up mostly of portraits of artists and writers. This Churchill is a rare exception, but I couldn’t resist the interesting sharp angle of his right arm atop Big Ben.

(via Modern Mechanix)

Something about this evoked Edward Gorey’s The Unstrung Harp. Delightful work by Tom Gauld.

Get Out
by Esma-Movie

Lovely and charming! Get Out is a student film by Charlotte Boisson, Julien Fourvel, Pascal Han-Kwan, Tristan Reinarz and Fanny Roche, with a score by Guilhem Rosa, all (I assume) students at the Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques in Montpellier and Toulouse. They’ve won a bajillion awards so far too.

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

I have an illustrator celebrity crush on Marc Boutavant. I just bought his Around the World with Mouk, and it’s a candy-coloured cute-infused thing of beauty, complete with fun impermanent vinyl stickers to populate its pages. Boutavant’s illustrations have us traveling the world with little Mouk, and the entire experience is like if Richard Scarry and M. Sasek got it on at Disneyland during the It’s a Small World ride.

London designer Haniboi has some nice screen prints for sale in his shop.

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.