Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

Eric Daigh creates portraits with pushpins. Here’s a close-up view of “Meghan IV”. I usually don’t care for flash based portfolio sites, but in this case the zoom-in feature is essential.

This is great. What better way for comic artists to celebrate Harvey Pekar’s birthday? Pekar, whose autobio-comics self is famously drawn by different artists throughout his career, is rendered lovingly by over 90 different cartoonists as part of The Pekar Project.

Shown here: two of my faves, Laura Park and Jeffrey Brown.

Stuart Immonen has been posting daily caricatures based on photos he finds on Flickr. Check out his Flickr People photoset.

(via Illustration Friday)

How great are these mini pixel portraits? Very Important Pixels are created by Beligan designer Kristof Saelen who offers up a new set every week. What I find remarkable is that the recognizability of these portraits is due not just to choosing iconic characters; Kristof manages to capture each person’s true likeness in that tiny grid of pixels.

One of the most prolific and recognizable contemporary illustrators, the award-winning C.F. Payne finally as a website. I found the gallery to be a bit slow-loading at times, but it’s worth it to finally see so much of his work all in one place online.

Mike Chester recently completed a series of portraits of rock ‘n roll stars on his blog.

These sculpted caricatures of three of the Beatles by David O’Keefe are fantastically grotesque, and yet surprisingly accurate. I imagine if the puppets of Spitting Image created their own version of Spitting Image, it would look like this.

Johan Leion has been drawing a self portrait every day for a year, and judging from the results, it’s prime evidence that these sorts of projects increase one’s creative skills. It’s only after he starts trying to fight the monotony of such a task by experimenting with new media, techniques, and styles that they start to get interesting.

Mel Stringer has been creating this really great series of portraits. She happily takes commissions, too, if you want to get your own created. I liked them so much, I asked her to create one of me. Oh dear, is that what I look like?

Okay, Halloween has come and gone for another year, but that doesn’t mean you won’t enjoy Frederik Peeters (adorably ill-translated) Portraits as Living Deads.