Sunday, February 28, 2010

THIN WHITE SKETCHBOOK

This guy, Sean David, goes to comic conventions and has artists do sketches of David Bowie. He's got lots of big names from indie comics (oxymoron?). He's posted scans of the sketchbook on Flickr.

Friday, February 26, 2010

SUPERMAN < BATMAN

On Monday, a copy of Action Comics #1, featuring the first appearance of Superman, sold for $1,000,000 (setting a new record).


A mere three days later, on Thursday, Detective Comics #27, featuring the first appearance of Batman, Sold for $1,075,000.


Proving once again what we all already knew;
Batman is cooler than Superman.

.075 times cooler.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

ENKI BILAL

...is an amazing comic artist and basically cool french guy.
I came across this video of him completely crushing it in his studio,
 schooling suckas with every medium known to man. Next level.
(the audio lags 2 seconds behind the video, but it's not crucial)

Friday, February 19, 2010

COOL COMIC COVERS

Batman Confidential #36 by Marcos Marz.
Im getting a backlog of these. 
I'm going to step it up.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

CANT-STAND-YA

Quick digital thing I did for a friends birthday.

Monday, February 15, 2010

HEY, ACAD FOLKS...

... I only got to see a couple people's websites from last semester. Post your links in the comments so's we can all check out each others junk (wink wink).

Saturday, February 13, 2010

MILTON GLASER

This guy was just so on point.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

...

This is for an editorial illustration assignment.

It's a shit composition. I'm going to redo it.

BABY

...by Gal Costa & Caetano Veloso.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

VIEW FROM 560

Sept 10 2009:

Feb 08 2010:

Monday, February 8, 2010

PAINTING A PAINTING

photo

color correction / digital editing

digital value study

2X3 color studies

4X6 color rough

11X14 composition study

color ground

dark night of the soul

12X16 finished

Sunday, February 7, 2010

INTERVIEWS

There've been some good artist interviews online lately.

Escape from Illustration Island talked to Drew Struzan last week, and Gary Taxali two weeks previous.

Sidebar recently featured Sam Weber. Here's an older one with Brad Holland.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

FINISHED

These are two character studies for a Pulp fiction assignment. 
If you move your cursor over any of the images and "click" on it,
an enlarged version of the image will appear, as if by magic.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

COMIC COVERS

Black Widow Deadly Origin #3 by Adi Granov

Worlds Finest #2 by Phil Noto

I JUST WANT TO SEE YOUR FACE

...from Norway band Serena-Maneesh's upcoming second album. I didn't like this track at first, now I can't stop listening to it. 
Interesting collision of 80's synth and 90's indie with touches of industrial. I found it easier to follow with headphones or a decent stereo. Laptop speakers don't convey the low end, which steers the melodic content. That sounds pretentious.