“Doodling has never been a nemesis of intellectual thought. In reality, it is one of its greatest allies.” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fx0QcHyrFk] “…Because doodling is so universally accessible, and it is not intimidating as an art from, it can be leveraged as a portal through which we move people into higher levels of visual literacy.”
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…
Drawing is the best. It’s my first love and I’m always trying to squeeze in a few more doodles. Who needs sleep when you can draw?! It’s just as important for me to draw just to mess around and play as it is for me to develop drawings and concepts for projects. If it wasn’t…
More pages from my sketchbook. Some pages are filled with nothing but notes, while others are crammed full of drawings. Nothing in my sketchbook is considered “finished”—it’s all working towards something, working out the ideas, techniques, methods, and content for whatever it is I’m doing. My sketchbook is my notebook, journal, To Do list, calendar…
Dear Quentin Blake’s drawings: I love you. Quentin Blake is one of my favourite illustrators of all time and I recently checked out his book, Alphabeasts, from the library. I couldn’t help but try my hand at some of his drawings. They’re always so energetic. When I was little I would sometimes get frustrated that…
6 years in the making. 672 pages. Arabic calligraphy. Islamic mythology. Hardbound. Foil-stamped. Out today. “I never know the endings of the books when I’m working on them. I spent a year on the first rough draft and couldn’t figure out the ending. Then I spent another year on the second rough draft, and still…
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…
You can no longer talk about children’s book art in Utah without hearing Willy Terry’s name pop up. This is a good thing. A very good thing. See what I mean? This is a typical painting from Will—and by ‘typical’ I mean teeming with rich, luscious colors, playful contrast between light and dark tones, endearing…