Urban Retro are now selling a great bunch of Gelaskins featuring Ben the Illustrator’s ‘Come Out And Play’ featuring Speakerdog. The Gelaskins are available for all manner of ipods, iphones, macbooks and laptops.
Meet Bartholomew Hat. An old fashion word smith blessed with the gift of gab. For his next tall tale, he’s politely asked Mutt Ink to supply him with a few of our varied visuals, aka “PICTURE BOOK”. For more info, visit the Bartholomew Hat Blog.
Charlene Chua updates her site with new illustration work. Check out the ‘News’ page or look out for the thumbnails with ‘New’ in the illustration and children’s illustration galleries!
French illustrator Marguerite Sauvage launched her new blog in English, including new art and upcoming gallery shows, images and news about illustration and graphic art.
I came across The Little Chimp Society by chance and thought it was such a great site I had to join. I also saw it’s sponsor Hire an Illustrator and thought that since it’s time to start to promote myself I would try it out. It would be great to hear from other fellow illustrators about their experiences with it. I have just started out as an illustrator and will be having a children’s book published which will be out in September 08 called ”The Naming Book of Rascally Rhymes” written by Jordan Troutt. I am so excited so I thought I would share this news.
Put June 5th in your diary, as the AOI is holding a one-day symposium at the London College of Communication, exploring contemporary issues in illustration with particular regard to ethical and green debates. There’s an amazing line-up of speakers planned, including big names such as Lawrence Zeegen, Si Scott, McFaul, Paul Davis, Rian Hughes & Mark Wigan, so book now at www.theaoi.com to avoid disappointment. Continue reading »
I had an email from Jessie Brown who works for Cornerstone [Promotion] the other day while she was doing the rounds and trying to convince me to post about Zune Arts as part her promotional campaign for them. I wasn’t too interested in the video she was trying to sell, but the one above by TLL is great… But to keep Jessie happy the one about the upcoming Zune Arts film called ‘Mother Like No Other’ can be seen below.
Toronto-based artist Jessica Fortner has added a batch of amazing new illustrations to her site. Her hand crafted characters really come to life in these photo-scenarios.
Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art presents Witnessed From Afar exhibition featuring works of Andrew Pommier, Irina Troitskaya, Karen Preston, Ken Garduno, Mel Kadel, Michael Hsiung, and Parskid.
The new issue of brazilian pdf magazine Ilustrar is already online, in a special edition about women in illustration. And the better thing, it is free!
Click here to download it! Or here to download back issues.
Last time I posted about Ken, it was because he had interviewed illustrator James Jean. This time I’m posting about him because the persistent creativity pouring out of Ken is fantastic, and he emailed me to let me know he had posted some new stuff I’m still waiting for someone to give him a TV show.
It seems that I’ve started to develop quite an illustrative green thumb. My latest propagation… “The Tree of Life” for New Scientist Magazine. To view the full image click here.