MetaFilter posts tagged with illustration and drawing

Uno Moralez - Supernature! (NSFW)

le morte de bea arthur — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:11:55 -0800

Uno Moralez, aka Indi, produces some very disturbing pixel art (much of it definitely NSFW). More work here [Flash, NSFW]

They Did That With a Box of Crayons

netbros — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:16:16 -0800

Previously we saw those who make art out of the wax crayon. The crayon is the simplest of mediums, one that we’ve all used at one time or another and most likely have lying around the house. There are also those who make art with the crayon: Jeffrey Robert | Don Marco | Tiona Marco.

Rhonda Forever.

chunking express — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:00:40 -0800

Rhonda Forever. A short video of James Paterson using Rhonda, a 3D drawing tool. Previously.

And it is TOTALLY AMAZING

doobiedoo — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:35:38 -0800

"Quentin Blake doesn't need a website. But Quentin Blake has a website." Check him out in Action, and a little collection of valentine's massacres, via Jilian Tamaki (who is also v. good) & previously.

Tom Gauld

Rinku — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:42:30 -0800

Tom Gauld draws cartoons for the Guardian. Unfortunately, not all of Gauld's work is available over the internet, but you can find excerpts of his printed work at his online store. You can find even more at Cabanon Press's Gallery and its archive, and more on Gauld's profile. Here are some of my favorites.

Character designs, level 2

Brandon Blatcher — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:25:37 -0800

Classic game characters redrawn

Some dads rule.

Rudy Gerner — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:53:13 -0800

This dad draws cool pictures on his kids' brown paper lunch bags. Every day.

A new bag each day for my kids. I'm the dad. I make these during my lunch break. His kids, Dylan and Dana are getting not only kickass sacks for their lunches, but also an awesome education in pop culture. Highlights include: Mugato, Toad from Super Mario Bros. video games, Red Ryder, characters from MTV's "Daria", and more vintage-y type stuff, such as V.I.N.Cent.

Mad Meg revisited

nickyskye — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:55:07 -0800

Mad Meg. Since the beginning of 2001, I draw in small notebooks 11 cm X 15 cm (approximately), always with a ballpoint pen, always on same paper, always in black. (Some drawings are NSFW) Digestion Paintings, her renditions of paintings by other artists l Glam Freak Show l The Family Code l Chimères l The Patriarchs l Digestion Notebooks l Photos of Mad Meg setting up for her most recent exhibit at the Austin Gallery in London, which opened today. Our enemies the animals Her blog, Varia & Curiosa (in French) Mad Meg, is the Anglicized version of Dulle Griet, a figure of Flemish folklore who is the subject of a 1562 painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. previously

Zut alors!

klangklangston — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:43:34 -0800

Arthur de Pins. Cheeky French illustrations and animations. Some mildly NSFW.

Doodles, Drafts and Designs

mediareport — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:08:46 -0800

Doodles, Drafts and Designs: Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian. Including crayon tests, the original telescoping shopping cart and more. [via the horse's neck]

The Moleskine Project

psmealey — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:59:32 -0800

The Moleskine Project An artistic medium worthy of a cryptic FPP.

Famous Cartoonists Drawing While Blindfolded

jonson — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:51:18 -0800

"In 1947 Life Magazine asked some famous comic strip artists to to draw their famous characters while wearing a blindfold. The results are interesting..." Via

Passes the Rorschach Test

Partial Law — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:07:54 -0800

The Daily Monster - Time-lapse videos of artist Stefan Bucher turning ink splotches into monsters. A new one every day. Also available on YouTube.

Rome as very few can picture it

flabdablet — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:58:00 -0800

Another incredible cityscape drawn from memory by the amazing Stephen Wiltshire (previously featured). The same clip on YouTube for those who don't like wmv's.

drawing generator

signal — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:56:31 -0800

Hannes Kater is the drawing generator. Order now for a drawing of your choice, drawn to your text specifications. No charge!

Illustrations by Ben Tolman

Gator — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 18:41:33 -0800

Ink drawings by Ben Tolman: Huge, intricate, somewhat NSFW. There may be an issue with the side frame not scrolling in Firefox; if this is the case, click here, here, here, and here to see the galleries.

Tom Judd's Everyday

tpl1212 — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:52:43 -0800

Tom Judd's Everyday - "365 PAGES AGO I HAD A VERY SILLY IDEA. Draw a page everyday for one year. Each day I spent around 1 hour on the page, sometimes more, sometimes less. There was never any planning or preparation, I would just go at it whenever I had a spare moment in my day and had something I needed to write or draw. Some of the drawings are observational and some are just plain weird. Monsters and things seem to crop up a lot (robots too)."

Also of note...in 2006, Tom Judd is undertaking a "Once A Week: Art vs Advertising" project...

Human camera

tellurian — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 21:26:08 -0800

The Tokyo skyline [Windows or Real media] drawn from memory by savant Stephen Wiltshire.

Here I Dreamt I Was an Illustrator

ludwig_van — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 05:47:27 -0800

The Art of Chris Turnham. Vivid, highly-stylized illustrations. The first four 2D images are part of a series that depict scenes from Decemberists songs.

The Art Of War

Gator — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 07:48:12 -0800

At least one commander told him, "Follow the soldiers' instructions, because they'll put their lives at risk to save you." But no one tried to censor his drawings or discourage him from going out on missions. -- Steve Mumford is a New York painter who was embedded as a "combat artist" in Iraq. The archives of his Baghdad Journal make for fascinating reading. He has recently published a large book of the art he created on this voyage.

illustration friday: broken

grumblebee — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:32:57 -0800

Illustration Friday is exploding dog for the rest of us. Each week, they post a theme (this week it's "broken") and anyone can submit a drawing based on that theme. Surely this is a double post. But I searched and couldn't find it.

Creature House Expressions

bz — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 13:57:29 -0800

Microsoft is giving away a nifty piece of software. It's the beta of Expressions 3 by Creature House, something I used to use back in my Mac days but hadn't heard anything about in a long time. Apparently MS bought Creature House last year. I downloaded it (after filling out a somewhat arduous survey/profile thingy) and think it a nice drawing program. Both Mac and Win versions are posted.

interrobang — Wed, 04 Sep 2002 11:54:08 -0800

The writing isn't the only great thing about Roald Dahl's books. There's also his fantastic illustrator, the perfectly-matched Quentin Blake. He's best known for illustrating such Dahl books as Matilda, The BFG, and The Witches. A comprehensive bibliography can be found here, his books in print can be ordered here, and, if you can afford it, buy some prints.

owillis — Sat, 04 Aug 2001 14:51:48 -0800

Comics + Paint = Cool Art. Alex Ross is probably the king, but Joe Jusko has done some neat things, as has the awesome Bill Sienkiewicz and fantasy artists Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell

TuxHeDoh — Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:55:46 -0800

If you were to draw one stick person every second 24 hours a day, it would take you 200 years to make 6 billion drawings. The YouDraw exhibition will show 6 billion drawings of the world's people together for the first time ever. 500,000 drawings of people will be collected from the internet. These 500,000 drawings will be compiled in a book of which 12,000 copies will be produced. 12,000 books will represent a total of 6 billion drawings and will be in shown in an installation, to be exhibited internationally.