IGI Member Phil Dunne treat us with this very insightful step-by-step. Click here and enjoy!

Back in May, artists Sam3, Blu and Os Gêmeos were invited to work their magic on two abandoned houses in the heart of Portugal’s capital as part of Projecto Crono. The above video is of Sam3′s contribution. You can see the rest of the murals below.

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Uri Shulevitz’s Writing With Pictures: How to Write and Illustrate Children’s Books has long been respected as the bible of how-to’s for picturebooks – and now thanks to the magic of the internet and Mighty Art Demos you can read some of the tome online… namely How to Make a Storyboard.

This makes for essential reading – even if you can’t draw to save your life!
(found via the folks at FPI)

Purely a topic dreamt up by Adobe or a genuine issue? Print magazine asked several illustrators including Illustrators Ireland member Steve Simpson what they felt about the future of publishing debate at ICON6. (image:Scott Gandell)

Dude!
IGI member Joven Kerekes has just finished his current set of Stinckers entitled Geezers of ROCK.
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Just a reminder that Summer Edition, the Artists’ Book, Comic and Zine Fair, takes place this Saturday 24th July in Filmbase, Temple Bar.  All manner of artists book practitioners, independent comic artists and zine-makers from all over Ireland and the UK will be there to celebrate and showcase their work to the public. Entry is free. This image from their leaflet is by one of the organisers of the fair, Philip Barrett.

Mail Me Art: Medium Without a Message is the follow-up to the successful 2008 Mail Me Art: Going Postal. With over 700 new pieces of mail art ‘Medium Without a Message’ is an amazing collection of envelopes and boxes from around the world decorated by some of today’s most talented illustrators and artists. What makes the work special is that every single piece of art was sent through the postal system, exposed and on view as regular mail. At the end of this month all of the work will be on display at the London Mail Me Art exhibition.

From Darren:
How can you help support the project and become part of it? Well… The running costs for the project are currently at around £6000($9120). We’re hoping to recoup most of that by selling the new book and we’re also hoping to make the artists lots of money by selling their work at the exhibition! We’ve just finished the book and we got as many of the mail artists into the book as possible in some way or another! So please help us recoup some of the costs by making a pledge and supporting the project! In return for a pledge we’re sending people copies of the new book. We’ve also got some really cool artwork up for grabs from the likes of Dan May & Jon Burgerman! Please check out the site for more details – http://mailmeart.com/going-postal/pledge/

Dr. Sketchy’s began life in Brooklyn in 2005 when artist Molly Crabapple asked the question “Why can’t drawing naked people be sexy? ” Since that first life drawing class with “scandalous performers as models” the Dr. Sketchy’s brand of burlesque and scribbling has spread across 100 cities, launching for the first time in Dublin earlier this year. Tickets are now available here for their next session on July 31st in the newly refurbished Mezz room in the Twisted Pepper.  If you’re more into drawing comic books and want to get started tonight, then head on to down to the Lord Edward Pub, Christchurch at 8pm for the monthly Dublin Comic Jam (it’s free!) or if you’re in Cork, the Drink and Draw sketch group in the beer garden of the Franciscan Well also at 8pm. (photo: Peter Griffin)

I’ve waxed lyrical about the octogenarian author/illustrator Shirley Hughes before - here – and now she’s back with another new book this year.

The folks at Walker Books caught up with her to have a natter about creating The Christmas Eve Ghost.

The ICON6 Illustration Conference is underway in LA at the moment. EFII is reporting on the events. Here’s a video with Roger Black introducing a talk on the future of publishing.