David Roberts

From "Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror", by Chris Priestley. This is a children's book of short, scary stories held together by a main narrative. I was very scared by two of the stories, and had shivers from a couple more.
Despite it being for children. And I am an adult (I keep telling myself).

I stole the book from my mum as she was sorting through books for the library she worked for, my eye having been caught by the macabre pen illustration.

Also of note is the title and typography. I know that if it were me, I would have simply chosen an already existing typeface from the list on adobe, but Roberts made his own to fit with the illustrations. I'll have to keep that in mind, because I don't usually like drawing letterforms but it looks amazing done well.

The wind in the willows

http://sarahscribblesillustration.tumblr.com/post/43438178951/scruffy-rough-book-cover-sketches

....ohhh....

Stevie Lewis

http://chocosweete.blogspot.ca/search?updated-max=2012-09-07T17:22:00-07:00&max-results=10

Wow, I've got a new girl crush!

Stevie likes to draw people she comes across in the public sphere.

She has a deceptively loose style of drawing. So cool it hurts.
Then, when she's drawing in her studio she really cleans up the lines and suddenly it's very polished and professional.

I remember reading about gesture in drawing in several books. Each book said gesture is one of the key parts of capturing someone's character or personality in a drawing. I think Stevie's got it.

Harry Ally

http://harryally.com/PAINTINGS/

A fine artist who uses people as his subjects. My favourite is the one with just the arms, because it's in contrast to the rest of his work which does the whole body (usually).

He'll give me nightmares because he doesn't always give them faces...

He uses oil and mixed media for the paintings, and usually charcoal, pastel and acrylics for the drawings.

Living Lines- Adam and his dog

http://vimeo.com/59290323

Pencil test for an animation. The blog is interesting for all the animation tidbits and information.

Animation is a bit like magic.

(so, the number at the top right...does that mean 125 drawings for 5 seconds of animation?!)

8 bit music videos with mischievous squirrels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPlQpGeTbIE

The video to Junior Senior's "Move your feet".

I must have watched this to death when it first came out years ago. I could remember all the scenes.

That second stickman who marches onto the dancefloor in indignation...!

The video is done by an art collective called Shynola, according to wikipedia.

http://www.shynola.com/

Amateur movie posters

 Olly Moss

 Phantom City Creative

 Rowan Stocks Moore

 Ken Taylor

 Olly Moss

 Kevin Tong

Tom Whalen

Wow, who is this Olly Moss fella?
These aren't amateur movie posters...

From here

History of Graphic Design

1820's and 30's maps of America

From http://www.davidrumsey.com/blog/2010/1/7/19th-century-maps-by-children

Work by young girls in the 19th Century as part of their geography education.

My favourite is the maps showing dark clouds around the territories.

Nothing to do with the current project, except for being American...

Fairy Tales and Fantasies in Illustration

Koji Abe

Urban Sketchers

http://www.urbansketchers.org

Get your pens and pencils out and ignore the existence of other humans for a while as you sketch stuff around you!

My favourite comments from bystanders:

"Do you like drawing?"
"Oh aren't you clever!"
"Look mummy that lady is drawing!"
"Are you doing it for a school project?"

Bless their little hearts.

Sketch all the time.

http://v4.jasonsantamaria.com/articles/pretty-sketchy


Jason Santa Maria:

http://thegreatdiscontent.com/jason-santa-maria

David Lachapelle

Pierre et Gilles