From Doodler’s Anonymous: Oh wow. It’s hard to believe it’s been over two years since we printed our first coloring book. I still remember the day we set the pages loose and the kids went wild coloring them in (view the colorific photos). The look on the kids’ faces were priceless, as they added so much…
(From the NFB.CA blog) Attention all budding and blooming animators! Hothouse, our very own “12-week paid apprenticeship in full-on professional animation filmmaking” is once again calling for submissions. Things are shaping up to look mighty exciting for this 8th edition. I mean, let’s be real for a second: how great would it be to get to…
2012 Utah Ties Juried Exhibit The Central Utah Art Center is pleased to announce it’s 8th Annual Utah Ties Juried Art Exhibition. Artists with ties to Utah, as well as all Utah residents, are welcome to submit work. The Utah Ties Exhibition, which has become a yearly tradition at the Central Utah Art Center, began…
A powerful message from our friends at Studio Shelter. I hope everyone is getting in plenty of time for writing, drawing and creating during the holidays. If you’re putting your creativity to work for the holidays (making your own gifts, cards, goodies, etc), let me know! I’m putting together a post of what readers are…
‘Remake’ is booooooom.com’s newest art project/contest, where students in the UK were challenged to use photography to recreate some of the world’s most famous pieces of art. I could easily blow an entire afternoon scrolling through the goodies they’ve collected. Check ’em out: And my personal favorite: Fantastic! If you want to see the full collection…
“Frank Santoro is starting his own Correspondence Course, but it’s small: only ten students will be accepted. It is a one-on-one 8-week correspondence course over phone, e-mail and snail mail. He’s going to focus specifically on advancing your understanding of layouts, color, contour line drawing, and printmaking for producing comic books. Frank is an astonishingly accomplished artist, and…
One of my favorite blogs, Design*Sponge, is offering a $10k scholarship for art and design students to assist in the pursuit of their creative endeavors through financial support. The deadline is Monday, so if you’re interested, apply now! (I wish I would have known about something like this when I was in school.) Find out more about the…
Have you ever wanted to design your own watch? NOOKA is partnering with MESH01 to push the limits of what we know as the watch. They’re running a competition, ending October 11, to design a new watch and the chance to win up to $2,500. I can’t wait to see what you come up with.…
Here’s how it works: a new letter of the alphabet is given for each week. Cartoonists and illustrators everywhere are invited to create an animal for that letter, and then post the picture to Twitter using #animalalphabet to share. Simple enough. Here are some of my favorites from the past few weeks: You can check…
Centered City Yoga (Utah) is seeking an artist to execute a work of art for Centered City Yoga, with payment of $250 to cover cost of time and materials. The purpose of this piece is to create two-dimensional signage for the new Centered City Yoga Revolution studio, located downstairs at the 918 south 900 east…