MetaFilter posts tagged with drawings

Love and Hate. Always a Heart.

netbros — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:59:41 -0800

A Heart a Day — Freelance illustrator Thomas Fuchs manages to include a heart in his daily drawings.

Drawings of the American Civil War Era

peacay — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:36:39 -0800

The Becker Collection: Drawings of the American Civil War Era "..contains the hitherto unexhibited and undocumented drawings by Joseph Becker and his colleagues, nineteenth-century artists who worked as artist-reporters for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly Newspaper observing, drawing, and sending back for publication images of the Civil War, the construction of the railroads, the laying of the trans-atlantic cable in Ireland, the Chinese in the West, the Indian wars, the Chicago fire, and numerous other aspects of nineteenth-century American culture." {artist biographies / subject browse} [via]

They supply the magic.

thread_makimaki — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:03:55 -0800

Chicken Nugget Lemon Tooty is a blog featuring selected drawings by Isaac age 10; Grace, 9; and Lily, who is 6. They participate in Illustration Friday, and even do book reviews. Recently, to celebrate the 3rd year anniversary of the blog, their father asked readers to submit some 'fan art' using past CNLT drawings as inspiration. Here are the submitted art works, accompanied by the original drawings that inspired them. The blog and the kids' drawings are posted by their father, illustrator Aaron Zenz, who isn't so bad himself. (via; also)

An ongoing project illustrating the titles of emails found in your spam/junk box.

chunking express — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:30:08 -0800

Spam by Elliott Burford. An ongoing project illustrating the titles of emails found in your spam/junk box.

Moleskine Art

robotot — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:46:49 -0800

Sketches from artists' moleskines

Bad paintings of Barack Obama

will wait 4 tanjents — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:41:33 -0800

.... and I love them all Considering artistic interpretation, Barry never looked better. Downfall: I wish there was more info on the artist and perhaps the AGE of the artist.

(limited editions x low prices) + the internet = art for everyone

Manhasset — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:46:15 -0800

20x200
"We introduce two new pieces a week: one photo and one work on paper. Each image is available in three sizes." Limited edition artworks priced $20 to $2000. An interesting concept with some nice pieces.

Naive beach campers often fall victim while sleeping

taz — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:49:30 -0800

This a fast offensive predator. First described by Reinthal, 1993, as voracious and a threat to shipping. Diurnal, collecting in dense aggregations along reef walls at night to sleep. Oweni is an insatiable consumer of almost everything of animal origin. Suspect in many human "shark" fatalities, although remains of victims have never been recovered - Field Notes and Drawings of Marine Creatures Captured or Observed by Xisle Expedition Biologist & Artist William Russell Curtsinger, PhD. ......... I actually came across this page while searching for something about marine bioluminescence, and was taken in for a tick or two. I hope a lot of other people fall prey in the same way and are lured into the same delicious wtf?-moment, because I think it's kind of adorable. Based on the species names, I think these might be tributes to friends and colleagues. FF users, right click in images and select "view image" to see larger versions of the drawings.

Just drawings of bears in ill-fitting hats

tepidmonkey — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:55:50 -0800

Bears in ill-fitting hats. [Via.]

Portraits of the artists as young scribblers

madamjujujive — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:57:09 -0800

Now Then is an exhibit of 25 comic artists showing a comparison of their drawing style now and when they were just kids. Also, check out 50 artists riffing on the theme of Duck! Fun stuff from the Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art.

Ken Steacy

joelf — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:28:03 -0800

Ken Steacy runs a print on demand publishing company, (he recently brought the book "As I See" back in print) and is a fantastic comic book illustrator. Last week he put 600 of his best drawings on flickr. (as seen on drawn.ca)

Life Illustrated

jacquilynne — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:41:45 -0800

The Illustration Portfolio of Lauren Simkin Burke. See also the Drawing of the Day.

The Sheep Market

OmieWise — Wed, 24 May 2006 07:13:30 -0800

The Sheep Market -- 10,000 sheep drawn by online workers. Or, if you prefer to be out of step.

Point to the drawing where the bad alien touched you

Robot Johnny — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:40:46 -0800

Aliens and Children. This website features a series of drawings made by children who were abducted by aliens for the purpose of creating a new race of alien/human hybrids. They successfully resisted the aliens by using a thought screen helmet which blocks the telepathic control aliens have over humans.

"This feels awesome."

dobbs — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:48:15 -0800

Drawings by Porous Walker. {NSFW & audio}

“These are some drawings my colleague Richard stuck on my monitor” — Toby

none — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:40:35 -0800

“These are some drawings my colleague Richard stuck on my monitor” — Toby

rather neat little animation thingie

madamjujujive — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:03:32 -0800

Everything will be good. (flash) via ELVIStazo

Barr Art

Hands of Manos — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 08:24:57 -0800

Glen Barr draws robots, creatures and vixens that live in a seedy yet swinging 1960's universe, drenched in the haze of a post industrial hangover. Flash enabled and ever-so-slightly NSFW

Wow.

XQUZYPHYR — Sun, 26 Sep 2004 22:50:40 -0800

Dave Archambault's portfolio. As you view the gallery, keep this in mind- these were all done with Bic ball-point pens.

All in the family.

subpixel — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:12:54 -0800

All in the family. An R. Crumb original will cost you an arm and a leg, but S. Crumb will do you one better, for a whole lot less.

Industrial Art Galllery

arto — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 22:19:30 -0800

Draft machine parts, not people! The Industrial Art Gallery is a collection of vintage engineering drawings. Perfect cover art for all you emo/math rock types. [via mimi smartypants]

Animal Love - All together now... Awwwweeeee

willnot — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 15:03:03 -0800

Tragic Animal Love Stories - Simple drawings with sweet messages. via

Ilustris - whimsical illustrations

madamjujujive — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 05:16:14 -0800

Ilustris - delightful and whimsical works from a Polish illustrator. (flash)

Prunella Clough

plep — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 11:27:17 -0800

Seeing the World Sideways: Prunella Clough. 'A private individual who chose to remain out of the limelight and yet was admired so highly by her peers, Prunella Clough, like Edward Burra, lived to paint. Her technique is masterly, her subject matter everyday in origin, her method idiosyncratic, the results atmospheric. She worked with her skill, not her ego, saying: "I like to paint a small thing edgily." '
Online gallery here.

ThreeDOrNotThreeD

srboisvert — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 19:04:58 -0800

Sidewalk Chalk Drawings.