Check out this interesting Heller post on the invention drawings of Steven M. Johnson.

Illustrators Ireland member Donough O’Malley shares with us his sketches from a recent trip to Poland. Enjoy them!
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Drawing Power is a Compendium of Cartoon Advertising from 1870s-1940s and features work by Thomas Nast, Joseph Keppler, F Opper, Bud Fisher, George Herriman, John Held, Jr., Charles Dana Gibson, Percy Crosby, Peter Arno, Gluyas Williams, Milton Caniff and over 60 other cartoonists. BTW it’s great that Fantagraphics does video previews of its books.

Kate Brangan has drawn a lovely collection of eighteen Dublin theatres. You can pick them up in a hand stitched booklet now available to buy in The Winding Stair Bookshop. See more here.

A video interview with illustrator James Gulliver Hancock about his drawing blog project All The Buildings in New York.

London-based illustrator Christina Christoforou has drawn hundreds of celebrities, rock stars, fictional characters, and famous personages —using only their hair—for her new book Whose Hair?

Here’s two interesting ongoing epic drawing projects: James Gulliver Hancock’s All The Buildings in New York and Jason Polan’s Every Person in New York.

In The Ould Ago is a fascinating new book of Illustrated Irish Folklore book by the late Johnny McKeagney. For forty years Johnny collected folklore by pen and tape recorder. You can see a Nationwide short video on his work here.

John Rocque’s Dublin: a guide to the Georgian city is an interesting new book by the Royal Irish Academy that reproduces forty extracts from John Rocque’s drawing with commentary.