For nearly three months now I have been drawing a portrait of the late night talk show host Conan O’Brien—one for each and every single episode of his show since May 15. To date I have made 62 pictures of our friend Coco and plan on drawing a new portrait, each episode, until this October…
To follow up on the last post about Aaron Wendel’s “Dwellings” animation: I found his website and spent some time looking at his wonderful drawings and watching his other animated shorts, and came across his Bubble Organ. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBlUST6Qg_0&feature=player_embedded#at=20] The Bubble Organ is an amazing musical instrument conceptualized and built by Aaron himself for a school…
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/25878089] Peter de Sève is famed for his illustration work and cover art to The New Yorker since 1993. He is also undoubtably one of the leading character designers in today’s animated-film industry, and has created unforgettable characters for block-busters such as “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, “Tarzan”, “Finding Nemo” or “Robots”. Peter was…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv0YjQ2KN3c] The creator of Habibi drawing page borders and sharing his workflow for his 12 hour pages (6 hours for panels, 6 hours for page border).
For anyone that’s been following my novel-in-the-works, I have exciting news: I’VE FINISHED MY ROUGH DRAFT! Hooray! Three months of writing, 232 pages typed, and 127,000 words written. Phew! Since finishing, I’ve been drawing like crazy, and planning out my next projects, trying to get my mind off of my novel, so that I can…
Craig Thompson’s long-awaited Habibi comes out this September from Pantheon. The book has been six years in the making and Craig has been kind enough to take bits of time away from writing and drawing to give us fans a look at what he’s been up to on his blog. Today Craig launched HabibiBook.com, a…
Crowdfunding is a relatively new concept, that allows for small businesses and individuals to gain fans and raise money for their projects. You’ve probably heard of sites like Kickstarter or IndieGogo; these are funding platforms. You post your project (let’s say a book you want to make) and people “donate” money to your project. In exchange…