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Christophe Marchetti

Leif Peng — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:17:03 +0000

Christophe Marchetti is a Belgian comics creator and ten year veteran of video game character design and background painting.
Christophe has been sharing his beautiful artwork on Flickr. Go! Be inspired!

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Tags: Belgium, Christophe Marchetti, Comics, European, Flickr, Illustration

Ronald Searle at 90

John Martz — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:23:53 +0000

One of the greats, Ronald Searle, turns 90 today. Searle’s unmistakable and influential pen line has decorated countless books and magazines. At 90 years old, the drawings still flow from his hand in his studio in the south of France. Here’s a new interview conducted to celebrate the milestone:

Your take-home quote from the interview: “The moment it is successfull, kill it.”

Oh how I wish I could visit the exhibit of Searle’s work that opens today at The Cartoon Museum in London. And even then, Searle’s complete archive of sketchbooks, drawings, and his personal library, will find a home in the Wilhelm-Busch Museum in Hanover, Germany.

For more, you can’t go wrong with the brilliant and image-rich blog, the Ronald Searle Tribute Blog, and our own posts tagged Ronald Searle here on Drawn!.

Richard Thompson, whose own work shows the undeniable influence of Searle’s, has some nice things to say on the occasion, and shares a link to another recent interview.

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Tags: Illustration, Ronald Searle

Linzie Hunter’s Maps

John Martz — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:44:37 +0000

Linzie Hunter has posted a Flickr set of some recent super-charming map illustrations.

Previously: Linzie’s Spam One-Liners

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Tags: Illustration, linzie hunter, maps

Florent Sacré

Matt Forsythe — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:13:19 +0000

Great video game concept art and digital sketches from Florent Sacré.

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Tags: concept art, France, Illustration, video games

Aaron Brady’s magic camera

John Martz — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:22:41 +0000

Aaron Brady writes, “I dropped my camera a while back and ever since it’s been taking these pictures.”

Tavis Coburn for the BAFTAs

John Martz — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:38:12 +0000

Tavis Coburn (previously) was recently tapped to do a series of program covers for the 2010 British Academy of Film & Television Awards. Each one depicts a character or scene from Best Picture nominess.

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Tags: Illustration, movies, Tavis Coburn

365 Days of Bears

John Martz — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:50:25 +0000

Julius Santiago has been drawing a bear a day since the new year began. Pretty cute. And who can argue with a Galactus Teddy?

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Tags: 365, Illustration, Julius Santiago

Monsters in Real Places

Leif Peng — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:00:34 +0000

Now that Terrible Yellow Eyes is (mostly) behind us, many artists are beginning to wonder ‘where the wild things are’. Well friends, take heart… there are Monsters in Real Places!

A group of talented young Canadian illustrators has recently started a blog where you can meet wild things like Inviso Bill (above) and Huge Green Guy AKA, “Hugh” (below).

The best part? You are invited to contribute the monsters you have witnessed in real places to Monsters in Real Places: “Care to join in the fun?” write the blog’s creators, “Use a photograph of some setting. Create and add a monster into the photo. E-mail it to us with a quick blurb and some contact info. It’s that simple.”

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Tags: Illustration, monsters, photo-illustration

Swatpaz

David Huyck — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:33:59 +0000

It’s tricky to pull an image from this all-Flash site, but the animations were too hilarious not to try. They seem to be a seamless mix of tiny puppets with digital animation of some kind, and they have the oddest sense of humor. Add in their bright candy-colors and strange hybrid creatures (the above characters are Francie, with “an apple for a head and a fish-finger body”, and Bertie with “a frog’s head and a fish-finger body”) and I’m wasting a good hour watching everything on the site. You have been warned.

Bonus: the name “Swatpaz” seems to be a truncated spoonerism of “Patrick Swayze.” (I think.)

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Tags: Animation, flash, Illustration, spoonerism, Swatpaz

New work from Tim Gough

John Martz — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:49:47 +0000

Since we last linked to him, illustrator Tim Gough has updated his site with plenty of new work. I’m a fan of his candy-coloured palette and use of textures.

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Tags: Illustration, Tim Gough