Drawn

Drawn 2005-2013

johnmartz — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:42:00 -0400

Drawn 2005-2013:

Drawn is dead. Long live Drawn. Thank you, everyone.

Drawn in 2005.

2005

Have you heard of these things called blogs? Blogging wasn’t new in 2005, but it was still a niche hobby for the technologically minded. I had been maintaining a personal blog, and was a regular blog reader. I saw multiple-author blogs devoted to certain subjects and…

It looks like Lydia Nichols has mastered her fine arts - and...

davidhuyck — Wed, 08 May 2013 13:16:00 -0400

It looks like Lydia Nichols has mastered her fine arts - and how! Check out these projects and more (thirteen total!) from her corner of the Good Measure MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Tyler School of Art Graphic and Interactive Design. Her colors and her facility with the printing process and layering make her work bright and crisp, and it all looks like wonderfully functional work as well. From her description of the projects:

Tyler’s program focuses heavily on authorship, so most of the projects include research, authorship, design, and illustration.

Personally, I don’t have the authority, but Lydia: you’re hired!

Scott Gwynn hurt his drawing hand so his left hand is picking up...

mrjakeparker — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:20:28 -0400

Scott Gwynn hurt his drawing hand so his left hand is picking up the slack.

Love the looseness of these drawings. Might be a good exercise to try switching hands every once and while. Forces you to think about shape and over all design rather than surfacey stuff like line and texture.

Hope your hand gets well soon, Scott!

More great work on Scott’s tumblr.

neo-rama: arecomicsevengood: Koyama Press is putting out issue...

dharbin — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:43:46 -0400

neo-rama:

arecomicsevengood:

Koyama Press is putting out issue 3 of Ryan Cecil Smith’s S.F. later this year.

!!!

Ryan Cecil Smith is one of my favorite cartoonists, period, and S.F. is at the top of my must-buy list—you can still get #1 and 2, along with the excellent S.F. Supplementary File(s), at his site. Very excited to see him get the Koyaman treatment. I don’t know who designed that cover, but oo-wee!

peowpress: Elliot Alfredius Ghibli Tribute. Magic Registry + 3...

mrjakeparker — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:10:35 -0400

peowpress:

Elliot Alfredius Ghibli Tribute. Magic Registry + 3 Colors.

Elliot set out to create characters that would fit into an imaginary Ghibli movie. I’d say he nailed it.

More great work on his tumblr: http://elliotalfredius.tumblr.com/

And here too: http://www.peowstudio.com/elliot/

nobrowpress: It’s here! Destination X by johnmartz out now! A...

johnmartz — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:02:24 -0400

nobrowpress:

It’s here! Destination X by johnmartz out now! A sci-fi parable about obsession and singlemindedness. It’s debuting at TCAF and available exclusively now from http://www.nobrow.net/11754

I’m going to take the opportunity to toot my horn, and spread the news about my new book from Nobrow. So: hey, check out my new book from Nobrow! It’s called Destination X. It has rocketships and cryo-chambers and aliens and you should buy a copy or two!

It debuts at TCAF in May, and will hit stores in June, but if you’re impatient you can order it directly from Nobrow this very instant.

ca-tsuka: “Kairos” animated trailer by La Cachette studio (for...

mrjakeparker — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:18:22 -0400

ca-tsuka:

“Kairos” animated trailer by La Cachette studio (for the promotion of Ulysse Malassagne’s comic book)

This is pretty cool.

Adam Rex: How I Make a Picture Book

jaredchapman — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:13:16 -0400

Adam Rex: How I Make a Picture Book:

The ridiculously talented Adam Rex shares his hilarious process for picture book making.

Illustration, Comics, and Animation Conference | Dartmouth College April 19 – 21 2013

jaleengrove — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:09:40 -0400

Illustration, Comics, and Animation Conference | Dartmouth College April 19 – 21 2013:

Anyone in the New Hampshire area ? Check it out!

MOTYF - Moving typography festival coming

jaleengrove — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:21:38 -0400

MOTYF - Moving typography festival coming:

This is being operated by a particularly active and excellent typography programme in Poland.

One Man Heavy Metal Band by Khuan Cavemen Co on Flickr.

jaredchapman — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:02:40 -0400

One Man Heavy Metal Band by Khuan Cavemen Co on Flickr.

bombsfall: I have made a music video for Toh Kay, aka Tomas...

johnmartz — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:42:41 -0400

bombsfall:

I have made a music video for Toh Kay, aka Tomas Kanolky. I would appreciate it if you watched it and stuff.

I wrote a bit about it here.

Preorder the album here.

Download the track here.

Coyote by JooHee Yoon

luclatulippe — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:32:00 -0400

Coyote by JooHee Yoon

Beautiful dystopic things for your Friday. According to the...

davidhuyck — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:37:00 -0400

Beautiful dystopic things for your Friday.

According to the description: ”This film was made over the last two years in our evenings, weekends and days off. We had no budget but a lot of help from our very talented and generous friends.”

See? Make your own way! It’s the best way, if you can swing it.

(Also, the vertical format looked great on my iPhone, and I assume it would look good on tablets and other vertical things.)

Everything I Can See From Here (by The Line)

Kyle's Custom Photoshop Brushes for Sale!

luclatulippe — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:48:51 -0400

Kyle's Custom Photoshop Brushes for Sale!:

kyletwebster:

Here they are, gang! Snap ‘em up! $1 off your purchase if you enter this code: kyleubpack

(first 50 lucky purchasers only!)

As promised several days ago, here are Kyle T. Webster’s new Photoshop brushes!

I have a lot of respect for Ze Frank, and I adored his year-long...

davidhuyck — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:32:56 -0400

I have a lot of respect for Ze Frank, and I adored his year-long project, The Show. So many people have said things similar to this, but it’s always a good thing to hear again. In summary: if you want to make stuff, make stuff. It’s the only way you’ll get past the point of making things to the point of having made stuff. Then you get to make more stuff. So go make stuff!

Thoughts on the Creative Career (by zefrankenfriends)

kingtrash: Here’s a cover that’s going unused for a 2014...

dharbin — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:10:09 -0400

kingtrash:

Here’s a cover that’s going unused for a 2014 project, the official details of which will drop a long while from now. I usually draw two or three covers for anything before settling on the final one. The publisher was (understandably) a little uneasy about how legible my lettering was, so we decided to put this in the bin and start work on a new one. I thought I’d post it over here as an excuse to write about some “process” stuff. Maybe this is super boring?

A friend pointed out to me that the past few covers I’ve designed (including this one, and some others which haven’t been posted yet) have become increasingly difficult to read. I sort of forget that my impulses as a designer don’t always intersect with the needs of a publisher, retailer, etc, who are the ones who actually have to sell my junk. My design sense was shaped largely by gig posters and record covers, where the point wasn’t really about accessibility, but drawing specific people in - and to a certain degree, keeping lames out.

In fact, I’m usually concerned my covers are overly conservative (in both type and layout) compared to the designs that influenced me the most in high school and college. That was an anxiety I had about the cover above, right after finishing it, but before e-mailing it off. Legibility aside, I made some really sissy choices in terms of layout and colour. But I’m a fairly conservative cartoonist anyway, so maybe that’s appropriate. I make similarly sissy choices in my actual comics.

It probably wasn’t until a year or two ago where I felt confident enough in my lettering to push it to be as unreadable as I felt like - to just take pleasure in drawing the letterforms themselves.

Bonus fact: This title was stolen from an Andy Milligan movie.

Part one of a five billion-part series on my anxieties as a “designer”

The great Michael Deforge on type, legibility, art and its various uses beyond “art.”

Annette Jung of Berlin animation studio Talking Animals created...

luclatulippe — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:01:42 -0400

Annette Jung of Berlin animation studio Talking Animals created “Lego Dance,” a 30-second animation of Michael Jackson dancing, using only LEGO bricks. (via Laughing Squid)

kyletwebster: Attention, digital artists - I will be selling a...

luclatulippe — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 11:07:35 -0400

kyletwebster:

Attention, digital artists - I will be selling a Photoshop 6 brush pack soon with paint and ink brushes that I have been using for my professional assignments over the past few years. The ‘Kyle’s Ultimate Soft Oil Brush’ was used for the sketch above. It’s a doozy! Stay tuned for details. Please tell your friends!

Y’all are gonna want these.

Picture This! | French Culture

jaleengrove — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:49:09 -0400

Picture This! | French Culture:

Many prominent French children’s book illustrators coming to NY to give talks Apr 8-May 17.