entries Tagged as [illustration]

Coolness: Stippled Conan

‘it took a week to do it’

For anyone who’s taken an intro to typography course with me – there is a fair amount of stippling involved as part of some really complex letterform studies.

And one of my former students – Freya Kiessling – who dotted her way thru letters – has gone national with her work.

Her color Conan O’Brien pointillism illustration (above) was used as a bumper on Conan’s show, April 11, 2011. The drawing was submitted thru their Coco MoCA page (many, many images abound).

And today – per show request – a print hangs in the show’s green room at Warner Bros. in Burbank.

Below, another Freya-produced Conan piece – from a beginning animation class.

Creative secrets: The super obvious

Tonite this link just sort of popped in from former student Campbell BrownKorbel. It’s secrets that every creative – from illustrator (the focus) to designer to comedian to (hell) anarchist – should know.

Phil McAndrew’s Super Obvious Secrets That I Wish They’d Teach In Art School. Read the whole thing here.

‘Never alone’

Simon Russel’s Nothing to Fear.

Big hair 9

The work of Camila do Rosário.


David Bowie: Fashion

Found via bumbumbum

Big hair 8

Today is Hairstyle Appreciation Day. Really.

And here is the work of Gary Fernandez.


David Bowie: The Width of a Circle

Found via Mirko Humbert

Mlødozeniec

The work of Polish poster designer Jan Mlødozeniec.

More here and here.

‘Diktor’

‘The ‘ella’ on Barbarella was probably suggested by Feiffer’s Passionella, a brilliant satire on the Cinderella theme and much of American culture.’

In 1966, French scifi comic Barbarella was published in a the US in a translated edition.

Minimal color, racy stories. Robot sex.

The original, a serialized comic strip, was created in 1962 by Jean-Claude Forest for V magazine. [Read more →]

Vranckx

‘He recently exhibited in Brussels with ‘Les femmes de Gilles’ a tribute to his favorite drawing subject, women.’

The work of illustrator Gilles Vranckx.

Info here. Blog here.

Found via From Betsy with Love

April in Paris

‘one more time’

BBC bird-filled animated version of Count Basie’s version of April in Paris (1957) – the song that just wouldn’t end.

‘They’

I know a lot of people who listen to ‘they’ – including my mother.

I don’t know who ‘they’ are, but ‘they’ wield a lot of power in our society.

Above, the work of Simon French.

Sick bbq

Ironic bbq is a panel strip from the pen of UK-based r mead.

Website here.


 


 


 


 


 


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