Jillian Tamaki, illustrator par excellence, was recently in Ireland on holidays and she has started posting some drawings and stuff from her time here on her blog.
Thanks for the heads up Stephen.
A nice little video showing the process and studio life of artist/illustrator Stephen Harrington. His work finds its way onto magazine covers, gallery shows, snow boards, tshirts, prints, and much much more.
He also seems to like a helluva lot of honey in his tea – YUCK!
Via Artikip.
Illustrator Donough O’Malley has spent the last five months wandering around South America (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Peru and Bolivia). In between all the cheap wine, steak and long bus journeys (over 300 hours altogether) he managed to squeeze some sketching in. Thanks for sharing Donough
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Forget Watchmen, forget Batman the most highly anticipated movie adaptaion of an illustrated original has to to be the upcoming Spike Jones’ adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are! Undoubtedly the book is one of the most prolific children’s collections, having introduced and influenced countless artists at a young age to detailed illustration with strong narrative backing.
Uber imaginative director Spike Jonze has now adapted the acclaimed children’s book into a full-length film, set to release on October 16, 2009. Jonze’s film uses a combination of natural lighting, moody color pallet, and indie rock styling’s of The Arcade Fire soundtrack which embraces the spirit of the book, yet includes subtle angst with an aura of loneliness and live action. The film uses and combines real actors, computer animation and live-action puppeteering. Co-written by McSweeneys supremo Dave Eggers, this has me shaking in my boots with excitment.
If only they can be pursuaded to make a Fraggles movie I’d be in heaven!
I stumbled across a fantastic Flickr group of beautiful artwork by early 20th century illustrator J.C Leyendecker. He is regarded as Norman Rockwell’s predecessor as the premier illustrator of covers for the Saturday business post and is also well known for his men’s fashion illustration. Well worth a browse.
Illustrators Ireland member Adrienne Geoghegan tells us about her new enterprise, an illustration book camp for all visual artists.
A lot of artists are disgruntled about a lack of time for their personal projects and development. They want and need to get off their habitual thread-mill…. but how you ask? In this illustration boot-camp participants will take a leap into a lively and productive atmosphere with like-minded people. With a little encouragement, and some coercion, I, and (hopefully your colleagues!) will sway you into acting upon your ideas. If what you have to say is banal or washed out, you will hopefully become more discerning, and decide what you want to develop further. Understanding the importance of the creative process is not theoretical, but hugely personal and experiential. Making time to create new work beyond the commercial sphere can, and will, feed back into a more rewarding (and lucrative!) career. Course description: (more…)
The first part (of 2) of a recording of graphic novelist Chris Ware’s conference in Angouleme Comics festival in France, in February 2009. (more…)
The Society of Illustrators in NY have taken their excellent lecture series, featuring some of the best and biggest names in the industry, and are streaming it for free online. Current lectures include:
February 10, 2009 – Becky Cloonan and Nathan Fox on Comics.
February 4, 2009 – The Evolution of The New York Times Op-Ed Page with Art Directors Jerelle Kraus and J-C Suares and Artist Brad Holland.
November 18, 2008 - Art Directing and Illustrating with Nicholas Blechman and Max Bode.
November 5, 2008 – Character Design, Animation and Toy Design. With Paul Budnitz (kidrobot) and Mark Graham (ilovedust).
October 22, 2008 – A Conversation About the Fine Art of Children’s Book Illustration with Dilys Evans.
October 16, 2008 - The Original Art 2008:Celebrating the FIne Art of Children’s Book Illustration. September 10, 2008 - Hanoch Piven.
Design Collective Tiny Little Horse (Dublin’s finest purveyors of illustrated and screen printed gig posters), were recently invited to exhibit in “Gig Posters: The Art of Contemporary Music Promotion” in the Kentucky Museum of Art. They showcased their work alongside international luminaries such as AESTHETIC APPARATUS, Tara McPherson, Guy Burwell, Jorge Alderete and many many more.
Tiny Little Horse are IGI members BRENB, Chris Judge and printer/designer Gav Beattie.
You can see a full list of the posters in the show here and read a report on the show from the local press here illustrated by one of Tiny Little Horse’s posters for FEIST.
