Quick Tip: Creating Swirly Vectors Using Illustrator
Design Shack Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
An illustrator video quick tip tutorial on how to create swirly vectors in illustrator. View Post
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Santa Claus, Stinky Cheese Man illustrator at Philbrook today
BatesLine (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Santa Claus returns to Tulsa's Philbrook Art Museum for the 25th anniversary of the Festival of Trees. Today (November 21, 2009) is the members' opening of the Festival; the Festival opens to the public on Sunday. Santa will be at Philbrook each weekend of the festival (including the Friday after...
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Women illustrators dominate the short-list for the...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Women illustrators dominate the short-list for the inaugural Gavin Bishop Award for Picture Book Illustration The judging for the inaugural Storylines Gavin Bishop Award for Picture Book Illustration has just concluded and the judges were impressed by the high standard of entries received. The judges for the award are Gavin Bishop,(pic right), Crissi Blair and Alan Gilderdale from Storylines, and Jenny...
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Create Perspective Using Simple 2D Art with Illustrator CS4
Layers Magazine (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Like most things in design, you can make quite an impact by modifying how people perceive things. In this tutorial, we’re going to create a 3D effect using simple 2D art, demonstrating how effective a little perspective can be.
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Reading Today: A Nickname for Mike McGinn?
Slog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
We have several poetry readings, several boat-type readings, and a book about looking at Puget Sound like an artist today. Then there are the book events we are actually going to hear about. To wit: Friends of the Library is hosting a Mini-Book Sale today at Magnuson Park. No, the books aren't mini. The sale is mini; they'll only (?) have 10,000 books for sale . At Seattle Mystery Bookshop, it's time...
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Design Inspiration Interview - Michael Cho
Sugar Frosted Goodness! (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
I've just posted a brand new interview with the very talented illustrator Michael Cho over at Design Inspiration . Be sure to check it out! Interview with Michael Cho.
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The Book of Genesis illustrated by R Crumb
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago
Robert Crumb's straight retelling of Genesis lacks his trademark humour It's the old story. Milton tried to retell the Bible and discovered that Satan was a more interesting character than God, and now, three centuries later, Robert Crumb confirms that God is a hell of a lot less fun than Fritz the Cat. "The first book of the Bible graphically depicted! Nothing left out!" declares the cover...
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Laura's Review - Angle of Repose
The Pulitzer Project (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner 569 pages What interests me in all these papers is not Susan Burling Ward the novelist and illustrator, and not Oliver Ward the engineer, and not the West they spend their lives in. What really interests me is how two such unlike particles clung together, and under what strains, rolling downhill into their future until they reached the angle of repose where I knew them....
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Every Game Character Needs A Beard
GameSetWatch (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago
Croatian illustrator Vanja Mrgan was sitting on the toilet recently when he came up with the idea of drawing beards on beardless figures. "Instantly, I conjured a list of characters that need beards and raced to my computer to get to work," explains the artist. He's already posted several sketches of familiar and now-whiskered video game characters like Black Mage, Wario, and Mr. Game &...
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CPL's Bookamania Brings The Reading Fun For Kids
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Special to Chicagoist from Elizabeth Mikel If we had kids, we'd certainly be bringing them to Chicago Public Library's Bookamania event on Saturday. Between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., the Harold Washington Library Center will be opening its doors to youngsters aged three to ten for a slew of free book-related events. Thanks to a grant from the Chicago Public Library Foundation and the Target Corporation,...
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And The Winner Is... M. S. Corley!
Monday Artday (Free subscription) | yesterday
The winner for the "Werewolf" challenge is: M. S. Corley! Congratulations to M. S. Corley . I chose M. S. Corley's " Werewolf " (Lycaon) as the winner for the Werewolf challenge. Why? Because it's AWESOME! M. S. Corley is a fantastic illustrator and designer. I've actually been a fan of his for sometime. Many of you may remember his incredible redesign for A Series of Unfortunate...
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Get your bearded superhero on
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | yesterday
When it comes to superheroes and beards, there’s not a whole lot of overlap. Sure, there’s Hercules, and there’s Odin — goateed folks like Tony Stark and Oliver Queen just don’t make the cut — but otherwise, the number is pretty sparse. But Croatian illustrator Vanja Mrgan is looking to bridge that divide, with his site, [...]
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Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist
lines and colors (Free subscription) | yesterday
There are hundreds of art instruction books out there, with a wide range of topics, approaches and degrees of value, but Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist by renowned painter, illustrator and Dinotopia artist James Gurney, is exceptional in several ways. Before I go too far, I’ll point out that although this is [...]
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EAST Interview: Audrey Lopata Makes Anything Possible
Austinist (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Dilemma" by Audrey Lopata; pen and ink with acrylic East Austin Studio Tour Saturday, November 21 - Sunday, November 22 Various Venues ( Austin ) Free, Saturday and Sunday 10am-5pm [ info ] Taking her cues from the "anything goes" rules of children's literature, illustrator Audrey Lopata carefully pens colorful worlds inhabited with scarf-wearing-lizards, zombie pirates, and mermaids....
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Gratuitous Beard Blogs - The Beards and Bellies Blog Adds Beards to Cartoons (GALLERY)
TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
(TrendHunter.com) It may be the month to pay homage to moustaches, but there are some out there who would rather celebrate the beard—like the Beards and Bellies blog. Croatian illustrator and creator of the Beards and…