How to draw... a penguin
Sometimes life does no go as planned. As such, I have not been able to post here on a regular basis. But here’s to new starts….
There is a blog series at the Guardian called “How to draw…” for children. It’s very charming and worth a look.
Here’s a fun illustration on sneezes I did at work recently. Though I think it was type casting. I got this assignment after I had missed a week of work from having the flu. The following 2 weeks I still was coughing and sneezing. (It’s also one of the reasons why it’s been so long since I made a blog post.)
Here’s the story the art goes with:
Researcher defines four categories of sneezers
But did you ever wonder if the way a person sneezes says something about him or her? Turns out, it can.
The tadpole
This is a cute animation short with a stylized graphic style. I like the watercolor look of it and the simple humor. The audio design is nice too, great sound effects and a jazzy sound track. It was created by Passion Pictures, a London-based production company. Passion Pictures is better known for their work for the animated rock band Gorillaz and the opening and closing animation for The Beatles: Rock Band video game. This year, their film The Lost Thing has been nominated for best animated short film Oscar.
The Beatles: Rock Band
The band Breakbot's music video "Baby I'm Yours" animated by Irina Dakeva
Over 3 months Irina Dakeva painted the 2,000 watercolor paintings used to create this music video for the band Breakbot. The resulting film is lovely and mesmerizing.
Bill Sneed's animation of a surreal night journey.
A charming video of a pickup truck’s trip to the moon. I love the color palette and the illustrations. It really has a unique look.
From Loish sketchblog
We were encouraged to keep a sketch book in art school. Today young illustrators and animators are creating sketchblogs. These blogs can have drawings, sketches, roughs, finished art, iPod art, short animations or a mix of all. (more…)
I loved this charming animation for a science report by Robert Krulwich about insects using high air currents to move great distances. The art and visualizations by Benjamin Arthur are well done and illustrated the story so well. Of course, since it’s NPR, the audio is wonderful. What a great way to make science fun.
Audio report, animation and story:
Look Up! The Billion-Bug Highway You Can’t See
Artist David Jon Kassan creates a portrait using a iPad in this great video. He’s using the Brushes app and his fingers. It’s interesting that he does not use a stylus. He does use fingerless gloves to keep from smudging his work. A very talented artist and the video is fun to watch.
Lost "candidate" campaign buttons.
I got to have some fun with illustrations for the finale of ABC’s Lost. The art would be used for the Times TV/media critic Eric Deggan’s look back at the series. The designer’s concept was to create campaign style buttons for the “candidates” — the characters that were chosen to be the replacement caretaker for the mysterious island. I set to work creating the portraits of the “candidates” and some of the other interesting Lost characters. (more…)
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