Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

I was browsing the Rabid Children Flickr group for artwork inspired by the music of They Might Be Giants, which introduced me to the work of Vancouver artist Hine Mizushima, whose little felted characters blew me away with pure cute (more at her Flickr stream).

I was then immediately reminded that she was responsible for the stop motion video for TMBG’s Why Does the Sun Shine? from their wonderful Here Comes Science:

Fun crocheted food and packaging illustrations from artist Kate Jenkins.

(via Monster-Munch.)

Over at Illustration Friday, artist Rama Hughes writes about a found art project he does with his students called Beautiful Trash:

At the beginning of the school year, I invited my students to contribute to my Collection of Beautiful Trash. I promised to use it for an end of the year surprise. Over the course of the year, they got really excited about the quality of their trash. As soon as the school year ended, I browsed through the detritus, selected the most compelling items, and bound the beautiful trash into these three volumes.

My own collection of beautiful trash starts now!

Enjoy this small collection of vintage sewn clothing tags over at World Famous Design Junkies. There’s something really special about these delicate little designs hiding behind people’s necks: Design in Thread.

One of my new favourite crafty blogs that I’m excited to read every time a new post appears in my RSS reader is Geninne’s Art Blog.

She posts watercolour paintings:

Journal pages:

And hand-carved stamps like this one:

Don’t miss her Hand-carved stamp tutorial. I can’t wait to make some of my own stamps like this.

Montreal designer, Roadkill Roadkill, has made a series of pendants based on my comic Ojingogo! There are three of them and she has them up for sale in her Etsy shop.

They’re beautiful. I love them – but whatevs, yeah, I ‘m biased.

Check out Roadkill Roadkill’s blog for more great designs. I also highly recommend subscribing to her Google Reader favourites. Lots of great design links there.

Also check out:
Matt’s book available online
Ojingogo Nominated

Melanie Bilenker creates jewellery featuring drawings made with human hair.

From her artist’s statement:

The Victorians kept lockets of hair and miniature portraits painted with ground hair and pigment to secure the memory of a lost love. In much the same way, I secure my memories through photographic images rendered in lines of my own hair, the physical remnants. I do not reproduce events, but quiet minutes, the mundane, the domestic, the ordinary moments.

Etsy user SparklePaw (aka Leslie Thompson) has created a mess of cute little characters on cards and pocket mirrors.

Check out the playful paper sculpture work of Ana Serrano. I love this piece, Cartonlandia, a vibrant cardboard microcosm of perfect little houses and vehicles.

You can read an interview with Ana at ReubenMiller.

An animated music video composed entirely of machine-knitted frames. The music is by the Montreal band Tricot Machine (which translates to ‘knitting machine’).

via Knitguy