IGI Member David McClelland show us an original way of standing out with your marketing materials. For me business cards get old really quickly. Now being an artist I should include a piece of work on my business cards but if it takes me a year to move a bunch of cards that image can suddenly get old and irrelevant. My solution was to print out blank business cards and use them as a mini sketchbook creating individual pieces of art reflecting the time, my surrounding and what I’m thinking about.
It’s Nice That have been hosting monthly talks in London every month with various creatives. Above is one with Irish animator/illustrator Johnny Kelly. See more here.
“Plunking yourself down in front of a pad of paper and scraping the inside of your brain is probably not the most effective way of generating ideas.”
So says Jillian Tamaki on her sketchblog, where she reproduces a handout produced for a talk she gave on concept generation at Parsons in NYC. As she says herself “everyone works differently” but it’s an interesting to see her process and maybe get a few tips along the way.
Last 19th July, to complement the contents of the Illustrating Illustration Exhibition a workshop/talk took place in gallery no. 72 in Kilkenny. It was undertaken by curator and IGI member Alé Mercado. The idea was to explain further the principles of the exhibition by showing some illustration work from concept to final production. (more…)
Nowadays an artist isn’t anybody unless he’s an Outsider Artist.
Why not consider putting whatever it is you’re trying to do with your art onto the back burner and make a Big Splash in the Art World instead? You too can reap the fame and bloated bank accounts. You too can live and die in the same sort of dark smelly caravan that all the big insane artists die in.
But how to get started and where to find answers to your many questions. Is it ethical to hire others to pee on your canvases for you? Is it better PR to shoot your girlfriend or to be shot by your girlfriend? These questions and others can be answered by listening to the instructional “Art of the Insane”.
Art of the Insane (mp3s) – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
This parody of TV painting instruction shows was created by Firesign Theater, an American comedy group originally influenced by The Goon Show. You can view some of Joven’s saner work here
This madcap timelapse video is by Chad Pugh for the login screen at Vimeo. It is built up of over many month’s screenshot’s as the illustration progressed. Makes you wonder whether there will eventually be a time machine (or extended history/command z) for design and illustration work much as there is for OS X backup, to recapture those wrong turns stretching right back to the very start of a project…including meetings with clients.
From Roger O’Reilly’s Rodgeblog Here’s a simple still life set-up I came across years ago from a book by Arthur Stern called “How to see colour and paint it” for doing still life experiments (available on Amazon). It’s a three sided box made of plywood or better again foam core board. Make it whatever size you wish but preferably a size where you can easily get various coloured papers to clip onto all three sides (including white where you need it). What you get are great cast colours. Careful observation of for instance an orange or a coloured bottle will reveal subtle changes in cast colours as you move around the colour backing and the light. The anglepoise gives you a consistent light source. Just move it around to suit. Use a second one if you want.
‘Saucy’ Cartoonist and Illustrator Dave Cooper is making great use of Flickr for the last few months as he sojourns in the world of fine art. You can keep track of his progress on canvasses, and even check out his odd inventions. His old personal website is here. If only they had Flickr back in Rubens day.
It took two generations to reach the rocket age from Man’s first powered flight.
It took me three days. Here’s how, but first settle yourself in, make sure that your seat-belt is buckled and switch on your reading light. Enjoy the flight. The editor of the Irish Times Innovation Magazine called with a request for an image that would convey how businesses can learn from past failures. As usual, I sent in a few suggestions by email, sketched quickly with just enough information to show the thrust of what I thought would work for them… (more…)
IGI member, Peter Donnelly, has spent the last 20 years involved in both the illustration and animation industry, his distinctive style can be seen in many children’s books and on TV. Peter recently talked to SCAMP about how he breaks down a typical illustration project. (more…)
