Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

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.

Work In Progress is a blog that shows comics pages coming to life from initial sketches to finished piece, with various stages in between. The images are all in Flash, and we see them blend seamlessly into each other, which makes for an interesting effect. The blog is in Spanish, but you certainly don’t need to be able to read any of the words to appreciate the work here.

Shown here, the work of Enrique Fernández.

Love love love. Paul Rogers’s Name That Movie series. With brilliant simplicity and use of black and white, they are like little movie haikus.

And note how he achieves his blacks here. The drawings themselves are simple line drawings without any blacks; the contrasted areas appear to just be selections in Photoshop, inverted digitally. Deceptively simple, and highly effective.

Paul writes:

I started a series of drawings in my sketchbook, it’s a kind of visual quiz of great movies. Each series is a sequence of six drawings of shots from classic films (in the order they appear on screen.) No portraits of movie stars, just iconic images from the film. When I finish 100 movies, I’ll see about getting them published as a book. A book like this could sell dozens.

I will be first in line to buy such a book.

(via Austin Kleon)

If you haven’t heard of Jen Stark yet, you’re missing out. Well, not anymore: she has a new website that is stuffed with her amazing brightly-colored creations. I’ve mostly seen her cut-paper sculptures like the one above, but she makes similarly bright drawings in two dimensions as well.

Here’s a beautiful cut-paper animation she made as well:

“Streaming Gradient” by Jen Stark from Jen Stark on Vimeo.

(via @friendswithyou)

Spanish cartoonist Juan Berrio (previously on Drawn!) has started a sketchbook for overheard snippets of conversations. He’s sharing the images via a blog called cuaderno de frases encontradas, which I clumsily computer-translated as notebook of found phrases.

I don’t speak Spanish, so I can’t fully appreciate the actual context of the sketchbook, but I think you’ll agree that drawings and bold, confident inking like this is universal:

Here’s a fun video of Juan making a sort of diorama of an apartment building out of a Moleskine notebook:

Watch and listen as the legendary Milton Glaser draws and talks about the act of drawing.

Meet Nathan Fowkes. He’s teaching a painting workshop today in Pasadena. It’s sold out, but there’s still time to sign up for another session in December.

I found his work via google reader’s automated suggestions, which I’ve now learned not to ignore.

Stefan Marjoram writes:

I’ve been trying to get back into the habit of sketching regularly and recently have been drawing old cars.

Check out Stefan’s Sketch Blog.

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!

I just doodled this little fellow over at Odosketch, an online sketching application that attempts to replicate the experience of drawing with natural media. Obviously, the effect works best with a stylus instead of a mouse, but it’s certainly one of the more stylish online sketching apps I’ve used.

You can save your creations and, what’s probably the coolest feature, watch them get redrawn before yours eyes.

Check out Kris Kuksi’s sculptures, paintings and drawings. Not for minimalists, these swarming potluck arrangements of beautiful debris.

Avery Hologram’s 365 Draweteria is a collaborative daily drawing project between Dan James of Ghostshrimp and his wife-to-be Sarah Locke of FOUND Magazine. Dan draws a picture every day, and Sarah colours it.