Published on
September 2, 2007 in
art and cartooning.
Tags: art, caricature, cartoon, cartooning, cartoonist, cool stuff, free, Illustration, resources, technique, tip, web links.
I just discovered these free PDF downloads of Inkspot, the Australian Cartoonists’ Association’s official magazine. The current issue feature über-caricaturist Mort Drucker. The publication is about 24 pages and contain interviews and news. I haven’t delved into the complete issue just yet, but looks to be a great resource.
Lots of interviews with cartoonists and other informative cartooning and cartoon industry resources in each issue.
by George Coghill
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Published on
August 26, 2007 in
art and tools.
Tags: Apple, art, artist, calibration, CMYK, color, design, graphic design, graphics, Mac, Pantone, printing, RGB, software, tool, web links.
Color matching wizards Pantone have been bought out by color management gizmo maker X-Rite (yeah, I never heard of them either). Seems they have been collaborating for some time now, with the Pantone Huey being one of their joint efforts. The Huey is a pretty cool, essential and affordable tool, so perhaps this is a good sign of things to come (see my review of the Pantone Huey monitor calibration tool).
Pantone swatch books are essential tools for any artist/designer working with color, but it’s good to see that the hardware side will no doubt be more aggressively pursued by this merger, since the new owners are hardware based. Such a huge part of the work of many artists and designers create these days is done on the computer monitor, and proper calibration for predictable print output is essential.
via Daring Fireball
by George Coghill
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Published on
August 26, 2007 in
art, cartooning and inspiration.
Tags: alphabet, art, artist, cartoon, cartooning, cool, cool stuff, humorous, Illustration, monster, Portfolio, web links, woodcarving.
Just stumbled across this awesome Flickr set of cartoon woodcarved panels by ojimbo. Each letter of the alphabet (sadly, only up to N right now) has it’s own panel with excellent juxtapositions of objects that begin with each letter. I totally want these as trading cards. Pictured is A is for Afro.
The best pieces have combos and triple combos, like the “Masked Mermaid with Mohawk” in the letter M.
Be sure to check out the entire set!
by George Coghill
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Published on
August 25, 2007 in
art and inspiration.
Tags: art, artist, cartoon, cool, cool stuff, creature, cute, fun, gallery, monster, Portfolio, web links.
Cool plastic toy art made from recombined plastic toys by artist Sang Won Sung, a Korean artist living in Brazil. The website is in Flash, and there’s not much info, mostly just images in the Portfolio section. The bugs are especially cool, and there are some other toy designs of funky cartoon type characters (including some superheroes) as well.
Enjoy!
via Lu Terceiro
by George Coghill
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Published on
August 25, 2007 in
Illustration, art, cartooning and tools.
Tags: art, artist, cartoon, cartooning, creativity, design, free, graphic design, graphics, Illustration, illustrator, marketing, Networking, Portfolio, promotion, self-promotion, tool, web links.
Creative Binge is a new online portfolio & social networking site for artists, illustrators, designers and all you other creative types. The talk of social networking for the community site sounds like a great idea.
The website has a clean and classy design and interface, and a very easy to use upload feature for adding your artwork to the free portfolio with your account.
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