Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

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Till Lassmann (who drew the cute Chalkies we linked to in the summer) has posted a creative set on Flickr of random tape drawings. Till randomly stuck pieces of masking tape onto his paper, and then added linework to complete the drawing. Great idea!

The TV Show, animated by Sugimoto Kousuke and featuring the music of Takayuki Manabe, features a creative use of colour as a variety of narratives, nested within each other, soon begin to meld together. And what a fun video it is.

Loving these expressionistic paintings of classic arcade games by Brock Davis. He created them as part of his Make Something Cool Every Day 2009 project.

Australian illustrator Guy Shield successfully proposed to his girlfriend (now fiancée) last weekend using a series of carefully designed but seemingly arbitrary illustrations. The illustrations, when folded into a specific structure, spelled out the hidden message.

Wonderful little visual essay by Christoph Niemann in the NY Times using only leaves to illustrate his ideas.

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I’ve seen video trailers as ads for books and comics before, but here’s something that’s new to me, and I think fairly original. Illustrator David M. Buisán has created a promo reel of sorts for his illustration portfolio, similar to an animator’s promo reel, but with static images set to music. It definitely makes the task of sifting through an artist’s body of work, and trying to decide which piece to share with you guys, far easier.

I think it’s a brilliant idea, and I’m surprised I haven’t seen more of this sort of thing. I’m certainly going to create one for my work.

Edmonton illustrator Raymond Biesinger (previously) has crafted a new blog called The Daily Sentry which aims to illuminate his illustration work’s “economics, reasoning, context and process”.

And even though, in his first entry, he takes a stab at illustration link-blogs — certainly he means some other illustration link-blog? — who are we to ignore such a promising link to blog? Raymond’s work is undeniably thoughtful, restrained, and beautiful, and I look forward to reading about how his illustrations come to be.

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