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Tool Associations

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Copied from a sticky note found stuck to the bottom of the laptop.

Charcoal – shade, condense clouds into solids, cut into (with eraser)
Colored pencil – bear down, attack, kick up dirt
Ink & brush – scoop, carve out, stab, dash
Marker – scribble, swoop, capture territory
Pen & ink – cut, carve, weave
Watercolor – flood, flow, carve out shapes

Addendum: Drawing on plastic digital tablet – drawing on plastic digital tablet.

Art Links 10-28-11

Friday, October 28, 2011

• An excerpt from a comic by Eleanor Davis in MOME 22. (See her sketches for it.)
• Sam Hiti has a (occasionally NSFW) Tumblr.
• I like this art by Elise Gravel.
• From last summer, but worth re-reading: Gabrielle Bell’s “Manifestation“. (Included in Best American Comics 2011.)
• Shaenon Garrity has been writing prose science fiction lately; her story “Librarians in the Branch Library of Babel” is a funny riff on Borges.

| Tags: eleanor davis, elise gravel, gabrielle bell, jorge luis borges, prose science fiction, sam hiti, Shaenon Garrity

Brief Time-Out

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

After a month of 5-days-weekly blogging, I found myself taking a little breather. Still painting, just not posting. More stuff to come soon.

Art Links 09-30-11

Friday, September 30, 2011

This week’s links to art I liked …

• Mattias Adolfsson gives us a tour of one of his grand cityscapes.
• An existential gunfight from Jiro Taniguchi’s Hotel Harbour View.
• Peter de Seve draws Miss Havisham and other Dickens characters.
• Two examples of art-as-reportage, showcased by D. B. Dowd. Love that Sasek illo.
• Mike Lynch draws his Prince Edward Island vacation.

| Tags: mattias adolfsson

Art Links 09-16-11

Friday, September 16, 2011

More art and design links …

• Check out the amazing web design (& beautiful illustrations) for the Sketchtravel project – a sketchbook that was passed from artist to artist over a 4.5 year period. Proceeds from the auction of the sketchbook (featuring art from Peter de Seve, Tadahiro Uesugi, Hayao Miyazaki (!) …) will go to charity. Reproductions of the sketchbook are also available.
• Eleanor Davis shares some sketches for her comic in the final issue of the Mome anthology.
• A beautiful cover for the New Yorker by Arthur Getz. (From here.)
• Artists draw covers for Philip K. Dick novels at The Divine Invasion. Proceeds go to help Dylan Williams’ (RIP) family pay medical expenses.

Art Links 9-9-11

Friday, September 9, 2011

Some nice art from around the web …

• On the blog of illustrator Pep Montserrat, art from his book Un Dia a Gracia. If I understand correctly, it’s a commissioned sketchbook depicting his Barcelona neighborhood. Some beautiful line and paint work.
• Via Sam Hiti on Twitter, a video of bande dessinee artist Hermann (Jeremiah) at work on a painted comic.
• Richard Thompson fills us in on his theory of Little Kid Expressionism</>.
• Images of some Ezra Jack Keats art on exhibit at The Jewish Museum. If you’re like me and have seen some of these only in faded old library books, their verve will really surprise you. (Here’s an accompanying book.)
• A Tumblr devoted to Blade Runner.

| Tags: blade runner, ezra jack keats, pep montserrat, richard thompson, sam hiti

Art Links 09-02-11

Friday, September 2, 2011

Art ‘n such that I enjoyed recently …

• Via @leifpeng on Twitter, Jack Davis-illustrated Topps cards. Judging by #10, I’m not sure if Larry & Raymond were really friends.
• Shaenon Garrity draws a childhood heroine.
• On the Aqua Velvet blog, Nikki Gittins’ type project NEW YORK, NEW YORK. Great use of cutout shapes and photography.
• The great Sam Hiti draws cowboys, shoes, and legs.
• Character designs for Jason’s upcoming book, ATHOS IN AMERICA.
• Eleanor Davis’s graceful and evocative New York Times illustration. (Her site.)

| Tags: eleanor davis, jason, sam hiti, Shaenon Garrity

NCS Reuben Weekend 2011

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Here is my super-condensed cartoon report on the 2011 Reuben Awards weekend.

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Some of the many things I couldn’t fit into the comic:

• The webcomics panel on Friday was entertaining, with a lot of contrast between the folks on stage. Kate Beaton’s slideshow moved at machine-gun pace—you’d barely recover from one punchline before another drilled you in the gut. (She also had a great, underplayed delivery when reading all the dialogue.) Randall Munroe was in a more leisurely and analytical mode, showcasing entire XKCD strips in a slide. Dave Kellett was a little in both camps, doing fast and spirited readings of his strips, then slowing down to emphasize a point.

• Webcartoonists love Emily Dickenson.

• I really hope that Roth video makes an appearance somewhere on the web; there’s at least one frame I’d like as a desktop background.

• A color guard performed at the awards ceremony, and another crew shot confetti over the crowd. Abe Lincoln was also there, in the balcony; at one point he overpowered some kind of prowler that crept up on him.

Related: see Kate Beaton’s Reubens comics and Mike Lynch’s Reubens jam comics. Update: and here’s that video with Tom Gammill and the Roths, on Mike Lynch’s blog.

Comments (4) | Tags: Andrew Farago, arnold roth, kate beaton, Mike Lynch, Mo Willems, richard thompson, Shaenon Garrity