MetaFilter posts tagged with illustration

The Morae River

HumanComplex — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:18:59 -0800

Brynn Metheny is a freelance illustrator based in Oakland, California who loves to draw imaginary creatures. Metheny has taken this fascination with made-up animals and extended it to the point of conjuring up an entire continent, Orcura, through which flows The Morae River. The river basin has a bestiary and a Classification of Species to describe the animals that inhabit it. (via) (speculative zoology previously)

Name That Movie

TimTypeZed — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:26:01 -0800

Name That Movie The illustrator, Paul Rogers, description of his project: I started a series of drawings in my sketchbook, it's a kind of visual quiz of great movies. Each series is a sequence of six drawings of shots from classic films (in the order they appear on screen.) No portraits of movie stars, just iconic images from the film.

Missed Connections Illustrated

Fuzzy Monster — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:24:53 -0800

"Every day hundreds of strangers reach out to other strangers on the strength of a glance, a smile or a blue hat. Their messages have the lifespan of a butterfly. I'm trying to pin a few of them down." Missed Connections illustrated by Sophie Blackall. Other Missed Connections Illustrated previously on Metafilter. Sophie Blackall previously on Metafilter.

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.

Anatomy of Japanese folk monsters

brundlefly — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:12:01 -0800

Yōkai Daizukai is an illustrated guide to yōkai authored by manga artist Shigeru Mizuki. Via NOTCOT.org, via Sprayblog. Previously, the anatomy of kaiju.

Art by Alasdair Gray

Kattullus — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:37:19 -0800

Alasdair Gray is best known as a novelist but his illustrations of his own books have long fascinated and delighted. Here you can see hundreds of artworks by Alasdair Gray, including some book illustrations, from 1950 through 2009. Here are a few of his works that I like: unfinished Scottish Society of Playwrights poster, Nina Watching the Simpsons, Erics Watching Television, Ice Age and Babylonian Science, theatre poster for A Clockwork Orange and the Scots Hippo series. Also on the website there are a lot of articles about and by Alasdair Gray reposted from various publications. And finally, here's a podcast of a talk Alasdair Gray gave called The First Pictures I Enjoyed.

'I ask you to keep the images and albums with the numerous drawings and models that I created for you humans.'

brundlefly — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:35:46 -0800

The Leonardo of Wermsdorf: technical illustrations by Karl Hans (Joachim) Janke

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]

Hipster He-Man.

chunking express — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:17:53 -0800

It's Hipster He-Man. Does what it says on the box.

Bernie Fuchs, Illustrator

Bron — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:11:26 -0800

Bernie Fuchs, one of the all-time greats of American illustration, has passed away. A phenomenally talented artist, he didn't start studying to be an artist until an industrial accident the year after high school cost him 3 fingers, and ended his dream of becoming a professional jazz trumpeter. (And he lost those fingers on his drawing hand!) He began his commercial art career at New Center Studio in Detroit, working on illustrations for the auto companies. In a few short years, it was off to NYC, where he was soon dazzling the best in the business. "I don't know who the hell did this, but the business is never going to be the same." After mastering the existing illustration styles of the day, he went on to create his signature style of transparent washes of oil color, all grounded with spectacular draughtsmanship and a stunning sense of design. An article on his career and technique. Flickr set Gallery RIP, Bernie Fuchs, and thanks for the work.

Novel Graphics

dersins — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:00:29 -0800

"A few months ago, I got an email from Paul Buckley, the wonderful art director at Penguin Classics, who asked if I wanted to illustrate a book cover for him..." Illustrator Michael Cho on designing a cover for Don Delillo's White Noise as part of the Penguin Graphic Classics series, in which prominent comic artists and illustrators create covers for literary classics. All the covers can be found in this flickr set, including Daniel Clowes’s Frankenstein, Candide illustrated by Chris Ware, and Frank Miller's (kind of disappointing) cover for Gravity's Rainbow.

Not the princess you're expecting

cjorgensen — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:43:50 -0800

The Art of Jeffery Thomas On deviantart. Related: Jeff and Celeste. Be sure to see the re-envisioned princesses. And my favorite.

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]

Vintage Kids' Stuff

PhoBWanKenobi — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:18:54 -0800

Illustrator Glen Mullaly archives hundreds of vintage illustrations in his flickr stream. Featuring work by Alice and Martin Provensen, Robert J. Lee, Charley Harper, Jack Tremblay, Jerry Smath and Dan Lawler, among others.

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)

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.

Sit Down, Print Out, Cut Up & Fold On

mattdidthat — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:10:29 -0800

President Obama pencil topper. Olympic Mayor Daley. Parachuting Rod Blagojevich.(Acrobat PDF) Mayor Daley Parking Meter.(Acrobat PDF) Paper sculptures by illustrator and animation artist Joe Fournier.

The Wonderful Details of... wait, reddit? Really?

saturnine — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:58:06 -0800

Over the years I've never really paid attention to the reddit alien. So it's a good thing this guy did! (SLYT)

the foreign exchange student

dhruva — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:26:15 -0800

The foreign exchange student "Some years ago we had a foreign exchange student come to live with us. We found it very difficult to pronounce his name correctly, but he didn’t mind. He told us just to call him 'Eric'." A short story in pictures by Shaun Tan. Previously.

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.

The Wire Illustrations

OmieWise — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:40:16 -0800

The Wire Illustrations -- Characters from The Wire, illustrated.

1940's and 1950's Illustration

marxchivist — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:31:53 -0800

Today's Inspiration is a blog "for those with an interest in illustration from the 40's and 50's to share their knowledge, views and opinions." This week it is featuring a guest blogger analyzing Norman Rockwell's illustrations for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. This blog can always be counted on to inform you about illustrators and cartoonists you've likely never heard of. Also advertising icons and my favorite: Smokes for Mom! It's all on Flickr too. Previously in a very fine post, but I've been enjoying this blog so much I though it deserved its own post.

19th century artistic printing

mediareport — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:41:44 -0800

Beautifully designed, quirky, colorful late 19th-century "artistic" and "gaslight" printing at Dick Sheaff's ephemera pages. [via, via] Info here. There's a book, too.

Steamer Trunks and Gang Planks

netbros — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:22:17 -0800

Travel Posters — a Flickr set from the Boston Public Library. "Combining superb illustration and hand-drawn typography, they produced dazzling images in rich vibrant colors rendered through the magic of stone lithography." (via)

These marks in printer's ink

Abiezer — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:04:59 -0800

The Táin lithographs In 1967 Louis le Brocquy was commissioned to illustrate Thomas Kinsella's translation of the great Irish prose epic the Táin Bó Cuailnge. The resulting collaborative volume is widely acknowledged as the great Irish Livre d'Artiste of the twentieth century; Le Brocquy's "brush drawings merged seamlessly with the text; stark, fluent images, they expressed with great economy of means an epic breadth, evoking the movement of vast masses of people. Individual participants in the drama were also pulled into close focus."