The Sketchbook Project 2012
This year I’m going to fill up my book.
… and also send it in. That would also be good.
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……this kid can draw.
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RIGHT ‘ROUND Artist Ben Heine creates portraits of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe by painstakingly building faces by placing circles one by one. Using a process he has dubbed Digital Circlism, the Brussels-based artist can take between 100 and 180 hours for a single portrait. He says: “Each circle has a different colour, a different size and a different tone. In my opinion, it is a modern artistic expression, a mix between Pop Art and Pointillism.” (Photo: Rex Features via the Telegraph)
Excellent.
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I just got had awesome steak and a lot of wine in the Field museum. Then I drew a T-Rex’s skeleton.
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- Me
No. Seriously, that just happened today.
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Comics for Cures sketch cards! (via TonyMooreIllustration.com)
One of the more creative art making processes, he draws on the cards, then shoots them with a rifle and a squib (full of red acrylic paint), then goes back into to pull out any art that was lost in red paint or bullet hole.
Probably the most metal art making process I’ve seen in my life.
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(Source: leilockheart, via everything-is-connected)
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Paul Renouard, chalk drawing from “The Graphic”.
From Modern illustration, by Joseph Pennell, London, 1895.
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Mope 36: Twas the Mope Before Christmas…
Read the whole thing by clicking through, it’s a piece of awesome.
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Tea Party Declarations of Independences - (by Dan Murphy via City Pages)
It’s like the illustrator is connected to my brain…
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(via brownhatguy)
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Remember the Boneses - Blik Removable Wall Graphics
Oh god, must have….
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La Marche - Simon Rouby
Also known “I’ve got the evolution of man on my mind blues”.
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Queen Victoria, by Charles Léandre.
From Les maîtres humoristes (The master humorists), vol. 18, Paris circa 1905.
Via archive.org.
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It’s my son’s 2nd birthday, so we’re heading over to the zoo! We’ll be having a get together with pals and presents later in the week (email me if you’re a SoCal friend and want to come), but as a present to YOU today, enjoy these new pics from Field’s Convention Sketchbook!
Basically, at every show he attends with me, we get Batman/Superman Family sketches from our artist pals. So far, he’s only been to a couple of shows, but the sketchbook’s already looking incredible. (The big Batman drawing above is by the unstoppable Ming Doyle, who, by the way, has an amazing new sketchbook of her own available for purchase here!)
Thanks so much to everybody who’s drawn pics for the book. When he’s older, and this book is packed out, it’s going to be an awesome record of Field’s convention attendance and all his comics creator aunts and uncles. This industry and these characters (obviously) mean so very much to me, so thanks for helping me pass it on to my son. :)
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