Friday Roundup: Tattooed People, Illustrated [feedly]

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Friday Roundup: Tattooed People, Illustrated
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Victoria Borges

I've certainly mentioned this before, but I am a fan of tattoos; and, I enjoy seeing them etched into acharacter's imaginary skin. Think about it — in an illustration, getting a inked doesn't hurt. No one is going to look at you funny or judge you harshly. Total freedom! Just like the weekend. See ya Monday, folks.

Monica Garwood

Julia Trybala

Gordon Studer

Esmé Shapiro

Julie Daleyden

Agata Dudek

Tuesday Bassen

Till Hafenbrak

Aitch

Rötör

Looking for more? Check out these related posts:

• Friday Roundup: Illustrations I've Seen Lately and Liked
• Strange, But Sweet: Illustrations by Esmé Shapiro
• Illustrators with Ink: Tuesday Bassen
• Illustrated Ladies by Monica Garwood
• Interview: Meg Wachter Talks Collaborating on Girl Crushes

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Remembering Edvin Biukovic And 'Devils And Deaths'

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12/9/14, 6:25 AM Mood is a slippery thing and what it tells you cannot be trusted-- but process can.

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The 15 Best Quotes to Inspire You to Never Stop Learning [feedly]

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The 15 Best Quotes to Inspire You to Never Stop Learning
// Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement

I used to think that school was the place to get an education. But I was wrong. School is just part of your education. We live in an Information Age where we can learn about almost anything in the world --- as long as we have the willpower to. There's bound to be a website, video or podcast that you can get access to for free (or close to free), where you'll get the information you want. So all we have to do is cultivate a burning desire to learn. I hope that these 15 quotes will help you to do just that: 1. "I have no special talent, I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein 2. "The person who knows HOW will always have a job; the person who knows WHY will always be the boss." - John Maxwell 3. "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer 4. "If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin 5. "Shall I tell you a secret of a true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point and in that I learn from him." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 6. "Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know." - Daniel Boorstin 7. "Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action." - Jim Rohn 8. "If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject." - Earl Nightingale 9. "Unless you do something beyond what you've already mastered, you will never grow." - Ronald E. Osborne 10. "The greatest enemy of learning is knowing." - John Maxwell 11. "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." - John Wooden 12. "What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning." - Thomas Edison 13. "That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." - Doris Lessing 14. "There is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know." - Ambrose Bierce 15. "The quickest way to become an old dog is to stop learning new tricks." - John Rooney

It's over to you

Are you ready to learn something new? You could enroll in a Udacity course, watch a Khan Academy video, sign up for a webinar, or read a book. The possibilities are infinite. So let's set some goals for the coming year, and embrace the privilege of becoming lifelong learners. --- --- Daniel Wong is a learning and teen expert, and is the author of "The Happy Student: 5 Steps to Academic Fulfillment and Success." He specializes in empowering teenagers to become both happy and successful, and he shows parents how they can help too. Connect with Daniel on Facebook, and download his FREE 35-page e-book, "16 Keys to Motivating Your Teenager."

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Guy Davis Production Art- The Temple

During the pre-production of Steven Universe, we got the chance to work with one of Rebecca Sugar's personal heroes, Guy Davis! 

Guy championed the idea of the temple's double head— one looking sternly out over the ocean and the other looking calmly down at the temple entrance!

Guy Davis is best known for his work on comics like B.P.R.D. and The Marquis; as well as his outstanding designs for TV and Movies, including The Amazing Screw-On Head and creature design for Pacific Rim. 

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Get Doodling in December! [feedly]

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Get Doodling in December!
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As I was sitting in meeting earlier this week, I looked up from my paper to realize that almost everyone in our team had pen to paper. While some were writing notes, many of us were doodling, and contrary to old beliefs, that's a good thing, especially given that we're a team of creative people.

		A doodle from Tiffany Lovering.

Recently, reports have shown that doodling can help increase your concentration, and certainly, everyone at the meeting was engaged, talking about the topics at hand.

Doodling isn't about boredom, it's the opposite -- it's a process of creation that can inspire and open up new ways of thinking and viewing the world, giving your mind the freedom and avenues to open up to new thought processes.

With that in mind, who could resist?

With that in mind (pardon the pun), we're dedicating a full month to the art of zen doodling, with Doodle December, starting with the launch of Tiffany Lovering's Tangle Love Workshop: Zen Doodle Basics. Designed to help you begin your meditative doodling practice, and with fifteen different basic patterns, you can help yourself be more in the now, relax, and get in touch with your creative side, all while creating some truly beautiful art!

You can preview Zen Doodle Basics at ArtistsNetwork.tv and get the full-length video, access to the materials and reviews, and more, to start your own patterns.

--Vanessa

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Review: Boxtrolls and Big Hero 6 Art-Of Books [feedly]

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Review: Boxtrolls and Big Hero 6 Art-Of Books
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Two recent art-of books have presented fascinating glimpses of the artistry behind a couple of recent animated films.

The Art of The Boxtrolls chronicles the making of Laika's most recent stop motion feature, about a group of quirky creatures who raise a human boy beneath the streets of a city named Cheesebridge.

The text is written by key members of the staff of the film, including Philip Brotherton, art director at Laika, Travis Knight, Laika's president and lead animator, and Anthony Stacchi, director of the film, each of whom describes how the animation studio altered the material of the source novel to work in their unusual stop-motion medium.

The artwork shown in the book includes character designs, architectural plans, and color keys. These digital paintings by Paul Lasaine helped to work out the shot compositions, color, and lighting.

There are a lot of character design sketches, both black-and-white and color, 2D and 3D. Much of the work is hand painted or hand sculpted, something of a rarity in concept art these days. 

Armaturist Nick Smalley-Ramsdale described how difficult it was to make the flexible armature for the character Fish (center), to allow the character to be able to fold up completely inside the box for one scene.

The genesis of each of the characters is followed from sketch to maquette to finished animatronic puppet, featuring many of the handcraft skills, such as hair and costume. 

However, I wish there had been more explanation of the specific processes used in creating the armature, casting the foam body, and 3D-printing (and storing) the thousands of facial expressions used in Laika's unique process. One feels that they're holding back trade secrets in the realm of their most important innovations, but they don't need to since they're always moving forward, and a book like this could have offered a more informative record of how they made the film.

The Art of Big Hero 6 showcases the artistry that the Disney studios brought to the challenge of interpreting a Marvel comic universe in terms of Disney Animation, rather than live action. The movie had to have plenty of fighting action, but also a focus on character and charm.

Almost all of the concept art in this book is painted digitally, including this one by Paul Felix showing Hiro and his inflatable robot companion Baymax. 

In addition to crediting the artists by name, (something overlooked in many previous "art-of" books), the book includes their comments about the specific challenges they faced and the methods they used. 

For example, Adolph Lusinsky, director of Cinematography and Lighting, says, "We knew Baymax was going to have projection inside his vinyl so, to test how it would look, we cut a hole in a beach ball, put in a piece of glass, blew it back up and put a projector behind it. The light bleeds through his legs and arms and feels really believable."  

Jeff Turley created this digital rendering to help imagine the portmanteau urbanscape of San Fransokyo. Everything in the city had to be designed, from signs to vehicles to interiors, and there's a good mix of examples. 

In comparison to other art-of books, this one devotes more attention to the architecture and environments, though character designs are well covered in the second half of the book. 

When planning the home of the main character, a Victorian home over a bakery/cafe, Scott Watanabe said that he "researched extensively how old Victorians were built and would have been remodeled." He had to thoroughly understand how the roof framing worked inside the tower, because the structure would be seen in the interior shots in the final film.

The book does a good job of showing the range of artistry and expertise that goes into making a major animated feature, and it presents the thinking behind the art in a way that's fun and inspiring to read.

Both books are 9.5 x 11 inches, 160 pages, full color, hardback, and they retail for $40.00 each (or between $26-$31 new on Amazon). 

More info:

The Art of The Boxtrolls

The Art of Big Hero 6
All images ©Laika, Disney, or Chronicle Books.

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Nicholas Roerich (Russian, 1874-1947) Concept Art for the... [feedly]

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Nicholas Roerich (Russian, 1874-1947)

Concept Art for the premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in Paris, 1912

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Nattosoup: In the Inking Supply Box- Nibs

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First Look at Hayao Miyazaki's New Manga

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Dragon Age: Inquisition - Character Selection Images I love the... [feedly]

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Dragon Age: Inquisition - Character Selection Images

I love the inclusiveness of Dragon Age storylines, even with fantasy races. Other series tend to cop out on being inclusive because they're stuck on the token character of each fantastic race. I really hope other game companies take note.

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Lynda Barry’s Syllabus: An Illustrated Field Guide to Keeping a Visual Diary and Cultivating the Capacity for Creative Observation [feedly]

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Lynda Barry's Syllabus: An Illustrated Field Guide to Keeping a Visual Diary and Cultivating the Capacity for Creative Observation
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How to master the infinitely rewarding art of "being present and seeing what's there."

"It gives me such a sense of peace to draw; more than prayer, walks, anything," Sylvia Plath wrote in her diary when she first began working on her little-known drawings. "The great benefit of drawing … is that when you look at something, you see it for the first time," the great Milton Glaser observed in sharing his wisdom on life. "And you can spend your life without ever seeing anything."

Hardly anyone has explored this delicate relationship between drawing and looking, drawing and experiencing, drawing and thinking with more rigor, wit, and insight than Lynda Barry, one of the greatest visual artists of our time. In 2011, Barry joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin to teach a class titled "The Unthinkable Mind" — a wonderfully unusual interdisciplinary course exploring the biological function of the arts and the psychological mechanisms of the creative impulse by blending cognitive science, visual art, and writing. Barry's magnificently illustrated syllabus notes and class assignments, many of which she had released on her Tumblr throughout each semester, are now collected in Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor (public library | IndieBound) — a slim but infinitely invigorating compendium of illustrated exercises, instructions, and meditations on everything from how to keep a diary (because, as we know, the creative benefits of doing so are vast) to memorizing things effectively to navigating the psychological phases of the creative process to why art exists in the first place.

Echoing Joan Didion's unforgettable reflections on keeping a notebook, Barry traces her own journey and what is to be gained by those endeavoring to master this simple, powerful practice:

I began keeping a notebook in a serious way when I met my teacher Marilyn Frasca in 1975 at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

She showed me ways of using these simple things — our hands, a pen, and some paper — as both a navigation and expedition device, one that could reliably carry me into my past, deeper into my present, or farther into a place I have come to call "the image world" — a place we all know, even if we don't notice this knowing until someone reminds us of its ever-present existence.

I wasn't quite 20 years old when I started my first notebook. I had no idea that nearly 40 years later, I would not only still be using it as the most reliable route to the thing I've come to call my work, but I'd also be showing others how to use it too, as a place to practice a physical activity — in this case writing and drawing by hand — with a certain state of mind.

This practice can result in … a wonderful side effect: a visual or written image we can call "a work of art"; although a work of art is not what I'm after when I'm practicing this activity.

What am I after? I'm after what Marilyn Frasca called "being present and seeing what's there."

While Barry's exercises are decidedly and refreshingly practical, they don't shy away from the philosophical — she explores subjects like the eternal question of what makes good art and how drawing can change our already elastic perception of time. Along the way, she illuminates these questions by assigning readings as diverse as Emily Dickinson's poetry and Iain McGilchrist's The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.

All in all, Barry's Syllabus makes not only tangible but also practically attainable the deep intuition that some of history's greatest minds have articulated — the idea that keeping a notebook or a diary, whether visual or otherwise, is one of the most consciousness-expanding ways of bearing witness to our experience and our journey through this world.

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Eye Candy for Today: drawing by Jean “Moebius” Giraud [feedly]

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Eye Candy for Today: drawing by Jean "Moebius" Giraud
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Drawing by Jean "Moebius" Giraud

From the GeekDraw article marking his passing. (See also my post: Jean Giraud (Moebius) 1938-2012).

I don't know if this has a title, many Moebius drawings do not. I think this one is old enough that it was done with ink and watercolor, rather than digital.

One of the things that consistently amazes me about Moebius, beside his astonishingly fertile imagination, is the remarkable effects he achieves with areas of relatively flat color and subtle gradations. Yes there are hints of modeling here, but only hints — gentle suggestions that let your mind fill in the rest.

Just wonderful.

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New Infinitely Detailed Pen & Ink Cityscapes by Ben Sack [feedly]

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New Infinitely Detailed Pen & Ink Cityscapes by Ben Sack
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Chronoglyph, 2014. 68″ x 60″. Pen and ink.

Chronoglyph, detail.

Chronoglyph, detail.

When we last covered the pen and ink drawings of Ben Sack, the artist was in residency aboard the m/s Amsterdam, a ship that circumnavigated the globe from January through April 2014. Sack's latest drawings are partially influenced by stops in dozens of port cities during the expedition. As well as geography, his drawings are heavily influenced by architecture, history, and classical music. Via Robert Fontaine:

Sack's work explores architecture as a flexible medium capable of expressing the unique space between realism and abstraction; where interpretation and our ability to create meaning is in flux. Within this space, Sack, furnished with pen and ink, encapsulates both the infinite and infinitesimal. His work invites the eye to explore drawings of the "big picture," to gaze into a kaleidoscope of histories and to look further into the elemental world of lines and dots.

Sack's largest work, Chronoglyph, will be on view with Robert Fontaine Gallery at CONTEXT Art Miami this week, and you can watch a timelapse of its creation here.

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