Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

I love these spots for Australian cable channel TV1. The three stop motion shorts try to capture the “quintessential Australian summer”. And while it’s winter in this hemisphere, it’s nice to daydream of sunny days on the beach.

The spots were created by the team at Sixty40.

Best Use of Exploitative Tactics by Curtis Baigent and Sean Dekkers. Never has animated fruit been so, er, uh, evocative.

Everyone knows about the Monster Cereals, right? They’ve been a part of the fabric of our childhood (well, at least, for me), along with their classic animated commercials for decades now. The commercials left such an impression on me, I’m surprised General Mills won’t revive the characters for any new spots. This totally perplexes me. Andy Cage sees the potential here and has started up The Monster Cereal Blog for everything and anything related to the iconic sugar frosted characters of Franken Berry, Count Chocula, and Boo Berry. Earlier, he posted fan art featuring the trio (as well as lesser knowns Fruit Brute and Yummy Mummy) throughout the entire month of May. (The image above was done by Saxton Moore.) There’s even a Facebook page to support the cause.

Fun crocheted food and packaging illustrations from artist Kate Jenkins.

(via Monster-Munch.)

Flickr user Waffle Whiffer has uploaded oodles of fun printed matter from the 1960s through the 1980s, mostly cereal and fast food coupons and ephemera.

These candy photocollages by Craig Kanarick are pretty fun. Aside from looking pretty tasty, they are great studies of colour, texture, size, and shape.

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Jason Mercier’s food illustrations

Artist Juan Salas has been creating characters from the logo on the packaging of Arturo’s, a fried chicken restaurant in Venezuela. He has currently created 100 variations, but plans on reaching 1000. While I cannot vouch for the healthiness of eating a thousand fried chicken dinners for one’s art, I can at least applaud his creativity: Transmutation: Los Primeros 100.

Artist Riki Takaoka draws what he eats.

I actually don’t have much to say about Tim Lemire’s Sofserv paintings. Or at least, I didn’t until I watched this video he put together. I still am not drawn to the work, necessarily, but I find it far more interesting having watched this video. I’d like to see more artists do mini documentary things like this, incorporating video, music, photographs, sounds, etc. to get at the story behind a series or piece of artwork — sort of a This American Life for art.

By Saxton Freymann who has several books full of his awesome anthropomorphic food sculputures – such as Fast Food, Food for Thought, and How are you Peeling?

The above sculpture is from his book, Food Play.