Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

Jessica Fortner creates photo-illustrations that involve sculpting key elements of the images, and combining the results with digital post-production.

Josh Finkle’s handcrafted wooden toys of recently extinct animals are lovely. The bandicoot, in particular, is just about the cutest thing ever.

Love: the found-art sculptures of Michael Johansson.

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She had me at “cat bus.”

So tiny, yet jam-packed so full of cute your teeth will rot and you’ll just beg for more, Jamie Ferraioli’s hand-painted polymer clay sculptures are TO DIE FOR. She’s got a Flickr page and a Twitter account and of course an Etsy shop.

Romanian illustrator Matei Apostolescu creates amazing and colorful toys out of polymer clay. See more of his work here.

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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.

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Hold onto your hubcaps kids! Although it’s been said many times that one man’s trash is another man’s art supplies, it bears repeating. Case in point, UK artist Ptolemy Elrington’s fantastically accurate menagerie, created entirely of hubcaps and recycled materials:

“Hubcap creatures are made entirely from re-cycled materials. All the hubcaps are found, usually on the side of the road, and therefore bear the scars of their previous lives in the form of scratches and abrasions. I believe these marks add texture and history to the creatures they decorate, and so choose not to fill, overpaint or alter them in any way.”

If you’d like to adopt one of his wonderful wheel cover creatures, he has plenty of amazing creations to choose from. Also be sure to check out his other work, commissions and past creations for more previously discarded born-again beasties.

Swedish illustrator Anders Nyberg (previously) has started a blog where he posts photos of his non-illustration projects like this fun wooden toy and this beautiful-looking lap steel guitar.

Leslie Levings has brought her super cute sculpted beastlies into the comics world with the now-sculpted Atrox Comics.

I am always in awe of sculptors, especially those who can capture likenesses. So here’s Adam Beane, who not only does just that, but does so on a tiny scale. These sculpts for some Shaun of the Dead figures are spot on.

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