Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

Love: minimalist Star Wars travel posters by Justin van Genderen.

How cool is this collage of heroes and villains by Jack Teagle? It’s made up of a series of smaller individual paintings, and his Flickr stream has all sorts of other drawings, sketches, and comics.

(via Luke Pearson’s Tumblr)

Photographer Mike Stimpson photographs plastic toys, particularly LEGO. His Flickr stream is loaded with lovely, colourful photographs of everyone’s favourite stackable block — including a super fun Star Wars set.

But it’s his LEGO recreations of famous photos, like Raising the flag on Iwo Jima or National Geographic’s Afghan Girl, that I find particularly interesting.

Lucasfilm asked a variety of artists, designers, and celebrities to craft blank Mighty Mugg figures into their favorite denizens of the Star Wars universe. The resulting creatures, critters, and Jedi are being auctioned by the Make-A-Wish Foundation. You can see them all here, but hurry: there are only two days left to bid.

Get a closer look at the entries and read interviews with the contributors (including me) here.

Paper folder Won Park makes seemingly impossible works of origami out of American dollar bills. Check out the koi; not only is it shaped perfectly, but Park managed to even give it eyes and scales.

What’s more, he offers up downloadable instructions (PDF) and a series of instructional videos on how to fold your own dollar koi.

Andy Helms draws a dude a day, and I love how he applies his style to various movie franchises, like these Star Wars dudes.

(Thanks, Box Brown!)

A long time ago, in a storyboard far, far away…

I missed MoCCA this year, and this was the book I was looking forward to picking up; Harvest is When I Need You the Most is a full-colour tribute to a certain galaxy far, far away by 8 cartoonists. It features the work of Box Brown, Jacob Chabot, John Green, Zack Giallongo, Braden D. Lamb, Fish McGill, Shelli Paroline, and Dave Roman and Raina Telgemeier whose artwork is shown here. (Image from Raina’s LiveJournal)

Pablo Hidalgo of StarWars.com has written a great piece comparing (admittedly a bit unfairly) the original 1970’s Marvel Comics adaptation of Star Wars and the more recent Manga version. It’s an insightful look at pacing, storytelling, dramatic emphasis, and much more. Read it here.

Fun little Monday-morning-mixup of Saul Bass and Star Wars.

Who is Saul Bass?

Here’s a nice collection of his title sequences with some historical context.

via kottke.org

Also of interest:
Book: Six Chapters in Design (including Saul Bass)
Saul Bass Children’s Book
Saul Bass Kicks Ass