Archive for illustration
illustration: christian turdera
christian turdera has really stunning illustrations, heres an article on shift:
http://www.shift.jp.org/en/archives/2007/12/cristian_turdera.html

illustration: daily sketch forums
a lot of different forums, the sketches of the week are in particularly interesting
http://forums.cgsociety.org/forumdisplay.php?f=130

concept art: john wu
john wu made some very interesting concept art for the game “resistance- fall of man”
http://www.therealjohnwu.com/gallery
_resistance_fall_of_man.html

be sure to see marc gabbanas site too:
motiondesign: terry gilliam
“storytime” is a short animation film by terry gilliam, it´s from 1968 and previews many phytonesque techniques
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KUqHzk26kI

illustration: portraits: lobaton & noma bar
these two illustrators for sure know how to get the essence of personality

and
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/guess-who/

illustration: syd mead
i definitely want this dvd box. showing sid mead explaining his process of illustration:
http://www.sydmead.com/features/dvds/

illustrations: coloring in steps: james jean
the wonderful portfolio of james jean, look for “fables” to see how impressive he does the coloring of his illustrations stepby step

illustration/characterdesign: daily monster
super geeky monsters are drawn here, really creative and nice to watch; illustration marries web 2.0, really nice and intelligent
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HmXY3Q-2JkM
the original site and all of the over 100 monsters can be found here:
http://344design.typepad.com/344_loves_you/
2006/11/daily_monster_0.html
*thanks matthias*

digital art: using photoshop for hyperrealism
web 2.0: tracing images online
vectormagic is an online tracing tool that converts bitmaps into vector images
http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/
*thanks rainer*

games: landscape painting
a very interesting video, showing an artist painting a sifi backdrop in photoshop
http://mythicmktg.fileburst.com/war/us/media/videos/pp_Painting_BR1000.zip

you can find an low res version here:
DIY: painting a car with markers
perhaps, try your daddy´s toyota fist:
http://necromanc.blogspot.com/2007/09/
lamborghini-car-painted-amazingly.html

photoshop: high res brushes
a very dynamic list of quite different, but useful photoshop brushes

digital illustration: speed painting
interesting videos like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K_NQe57C-k
to find on the website of nico di mattia
http://www.speed-painting.com/
*thanks roman*

movie summaries in 30 seconds
summarizing famous hollywood movies in 30 seconds, cartoon style
http://www.angryalien.com/0704/alienbunnies.html
*thanks david*

motiondesign: stop motion street art
a very interesting video showing an intersection between streetart and motiondesign, a stop-motion animation drawn over a wall over and over again; stunning!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jfcpa_x4Lg
*thanks christian*

flashmag: ideafixa
i stumbled upon this really very nice looking and professionally made flash mag, beautiful issues, be sure to click that one!

illustration video: not what it appears to be
a very clever video showing a guy drawing characters, amazing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kf2zsGv1IQ

*thanks marcus*
digital illustration software: artrage
especially for tablet users, this app is quite interesting. it focuses on natural brush strokes and painting, you can adjust the structure and property of the “paper” you work on, before you begin
http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html

digital art: workshops
for free and in pdf format
http://www.imaginefx.com/02287754330326480692/workshops.html
fashion: graphic design: BUTTONS
one of the coolest sites i´ve ever seen, hundreds of buttons for every flavour, sorted by motive, artist or tag
you have to see this one:
via coolhunter

visual design exchange: gasbook
fascinating books, yet, you will have to bring some cash, too:
http://www.hellogas.com/gasbook/index_e.html

bodypainting: t-shirts on flesh
this one is really awesome! a guy painting 30 drawings on his body:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zRVts7TFw-Y

Illustration: Kids vs. Adults: DrawerGeeks
Kids paint something (a monster for example) and adult illustrators word the concept out
http://drawergeeks.com/Kid_Creatures/Kid_Creatures.html
*thanks global*


























