Caitlin Keegan’s Corita Kent Series
Colorful visual interpretations of Some Rules for Students and Teachers / via Doug Wilson
The art and Design of Nolan Pelletier
Fonts In Use showcased a recent album design by Nolan and his site is filled with delightful illustrations and details abound!
Inspirational monsters
I went down a rabbit hole looking at the work of Gemma Correll. Here's where I started.
Sunlight
9 panels about growing by Grant Snider / via my friend Shannon
Old Book Illustrations
Not verified as open sourced images, but a trove for inspiration nonetheless
Amazing Spider-Man #61
Love seeing the process and result for this variant cover by Julian Totino Tedesco
An Illustrated Catalog of American Fruits & Nuts
Assembled between 1886 and 1942, a collection of watercolor fruits and plants made by 21 artists. (This book looks beautiful.)
3:45 PM
A lovely animation indeed. "Don't live in the grand scheme of things"
Enzo
VITTI brought on Mike Freedom to bring this character to life for their brand. This is a great story of how that came to be and their process. (Built on exposure.co - which is a great tool for sharing stories)
Japan by Car
Gorgeous illustration by James Gilleard / via Seth Werkheiser
Toy Faces 3D Avatar Library
Amrit Pal Singh's wonderful set of avatars, PLUS you can get your own custom one made! / via Jessica Hische
Good Movies as Old Books / 02: The Hard Way
Matt Stevens second in a series of behind the scenes peeks into his book design/illustration process
Living in someone else’s Portland narrative
The illustration for this article is very spot on and I very much dig the style.
Interview with September’s Artist Ben Stafford
I follow Ben on Twitter and love seeing his work every time he shares
ALLSHIPS | A Creative Community
"We stand for quality over quantity, substance over numbers, cohesion over conflict, opinion over algorithms, thoughtful content over snackable, sugary, viral hits. We stand together, not apart." / via Luke Beard
Matt Stevens – Good Movies as Old Books
I see these show up on the socials and am delighted every single time. Nice to see them all together.
USA Today Network Branding by DKNG
I was wondering if I could pick Cincinnati out of the lineup. I could indeed.
Wendy Macnaughton
Illustrator for Salt Fat Acid Heat and venn diagrams and more. (Listening to inaugural Partners podcast by Hrishikesh Hirway)
Mary Kate McDevitt
Lettering and Illustration (and some lovely items in her shop to boot)
Matt Lyon
I really like Matt's work.
Drawing a Ghost with Procreate 👻 – YouTube
Here's a 5 minute version of that Instagram video I posted a few days ago. This shows Gal Shir's entire process. Oooooo
How Matisse’s Cut-outs Took Over the Illustration World
Related to the Chobani filter
SUNday SUNS
Always enjoy Tad Carpenters Sunday illustration
Poster, Nihon Buyo, 1981
Geometry
Discover the Mekong through colorful illustrations
A journey from Cambodia to Vietnam illustrated by Christoph Niemann. Lovely
Character, process, & heart: Creating Slack’s illustration voice
A behind-the-scenes look at researching, concepting, and creating an illustration voice, system, and custom 40+ asset library, by Alice Lee / via Yewknee
Flyover Country — Plaid Mtn.
Super digging this screenprint
The Richard Amsel Appreciation Site
A selection of movie posters from 1980-1985. There is SO MUCH MORE WORK here though. So good. Bonus, some behind the scenes process.
Andy J. Miller on Instagram: “People don’t always understand what I mean by drawing invisible things so this is kind of a silly cheat sheet “
"I think photography is mainly about replicating what you can see, where as illustration is about showing what you CAN’T see!" Love this.
Tools and resources for Illustrators
Some new to me things on here. /via DJ
Tom Gran on Twitter: “Hey so through 2018 I’m gonna do a drawing challenge where every day I add another character to a giant fight scene until it gets so giant I probably won’t even be able to upload it to Twitter anymore. Here goes:…
He's staying current and I can't imagine how he'll pack a whole year in. / via Yewknee
How To Be a Nonconformist: 22 Irreverent Illustrated Steps to Counterculture Cred from 1968
In love with all of this. All of it. / via Tom
Two Very Different Kinds of Illustration
Khoi is spot on with his observations.
Celebrate #Caturday with 15 Cat Illustrations
These are all so wonderful. / via swiss-miss
Drawings with depth
Clever use of paper and perspective here.
James Boorman “What Have We Done”
Mesmerized by this animated illustration
Black Bouquet Print Series by Tad Carpenter
I dig Tad's style.
North: An Illustrated Travelogue by Christoph Niemann
Super lovely. / via Kottke
Oliver Sin
Lovely illustration and animation / via Yewknee
Young Jerks
So tight. / via Coudal
Cinerama — Invisible Creature
I want to go to Seattle just to see this theatre mural. / via YewKnee
Oliver and Sam discuss their picturebook collaboration, ‘A Child of Books’
Beautiful book, wonderful insight into the process of making it. / via Swiss-Miss
Process: The Rookie Handbook
I super dig Matt Stevens' work and always enjoy learning about design (and illustration) process
Lauren Crow Illustration
Dig her work. Saw it in "The Stress Report" and was immediately smitten
Outlets.
Superfun animated gifs by Jay Keeree / via Swiss-Miss
JULIAN GLANDER
Makes tasty animated things and then some / via We Make Money Not Art
Jonathan Stroh “Bear house (with fox)”
Mesmerized by this animation.
The art and album covers of Robert Beatty
Wonderful work (recently learned from Tame Impala's new album)
CROSSFIT Castelfranco
These illustrations in and outside the gym are quite charming / via AIGA
You Are The Friction
This book looks awesome. (Click on the dots to view a small gallery)
New Work: Defining the Pinterest Illustrated Style
Matt Stevens' work for Pinterest is chock full of good energy.
http://drawger.com/paulrogers/index.php?section=members&member=paulrogers&area=blog&cat_id=832
Super scrolly! /via This Isn't Happiness
Andrew Kolb’s Chrono Trigger-themed cuckoo clocks
I didn't play Chrono Trigger, but if I did, I'd want these clocks. Er, I kinda still want them.
On the Road Illustrated, Paul Rogers
Super scrolly! /via This Isn't Happiness
Fantastic animated illustrations by Robin Davey
Love these, lots
The DIY Skillmap Poster
I still wish I had kids to use the heck out of this service. But for now at least, there's this lovely poster.
The Hyrulean Book of Biology
A Zelda and Harper inspired piece by Andrew Kolb
Drawn! 2005-2013
The natural close of a good thing. John Martz lays it all out, and dagnabbit if it doesn't all make sense and make me sad to boot. Things are different now, but Drawn! was one of those places that lived comfortably in my reading favorites.
Russ McMullin’s Scratchboard Tutorial
I just got some scratchboard. Going to learn how to use it.
The Kama Sutra Project A-Z
Wonderful concept and illustrations by Malika Favre. / via Coudal