How to brighten up your pavements...

I found these brilliant drawings that someone has done on pavements - they look so 3D! Much better than the ones in Mary Poppins! There's loads more here if you want a look.

P.S. I hope you're all working away at things to sell at the craft fair, only a week left!

Alice Duke

Here's a couple images by last year's eca illustration graduate, Alice Duke. Check out her blog here: http://alicedraws.blogspot.com/
Her work makes me really excited/really depressed because I wish I could do that! She's got some really great stuff. Have a look, there's lots of really nice pencil sketches on her blog.

So I havent done a 'nice things' type post for a while so i figured I'd post one of my favourite illustrators/artists in the whole wide world ever. Maxwell Loren Holyoke Hirsch is a San Fransisco based artist with a massive amount of really nice work from painting, to photography to woodcuts.

Edible Prints and Glow-in-the-Dark Ink

I found these edible prints when searching exciting editorials for Fiona.. A girl at st martins did them for the guardian i think... she has other cool stuff on her website, like glow in the dark books which look blank during the day...

www.sawatanaka.com

The wonderful world of XKCD, and of internet generally.

"I am not a ninja"

I thought I'd introduce anyone who doesn't know of it to the wonderful world of XKCD (www.xkcd.com). All by a random guy who one day started posting math comics and now has a huge following and tshirts and other things. Proof that Illustation can come from and go in the strangest places....

Also a wee note here about the odd workings of the universe (and the internet)... 8 or 9 years ago, maybe more, I had a pen pal in Italy. I can barely even remember it. So anyway, we lost contact all those years ago, and today I got a facebook message from him. Something to the effect of: "Remember me? We were pen pals. My english isn't as good as it used to be, but I'm studying electronic engineering in Italy. Oh I don't play soccer anymore."
The world is a very small place, and made very, very, very weird by modern life and internet.
On that note, I'll leave you with an appropriate xkcd comic on the subject... http://xkcd.com/490/

Sasek Strikes again

Sasek

Inspired by your Sasek comment Lizzy I thought I'd post these images of his lovely work from the book 'This is Edinburgh'... He did a whole series of books on different cities- Paris, London, Venice, New York, etc, but there is something really enjoyable about recognising the places in this one! I'd been looking at this again recently in fact... He has a really charming way of drawing buildings, and the figures are equally so, i hope you'll agree...
Been working most of the day on Jim's letterhead/invoice project; been really enjoying it, and i'm glad jim's had the foresight to make us design something that can hopefully have a life and use beyond college! See you on friday...

Fontaine Anderson

...this is nice too. via pikaland.

David Klein

Some great poster art from the 50s/60s by David Klein. Lovely lettering and colours... (via Drawn) Hope everyone is having a good week... I have been sorting boring things like banking and tax today. fun. and un-productive! oh dear...

Inspiration!

Hello everyone! I don't know who's doing well/ being productive, but I'm certainly not. Damn you, artists block. So, in the name of productivity (ironically, posted out of procrastination) I give you Nike of Samothrace, which in my opinion is the most beautiful piece of artwork ever created, and forever my favorite above all else. I know we have a copy in the Sculpture court, but as she is shoved haphazardly under an arch in the corner I don't think people really appreciate how spectacular she really is.

YAY!

Oh my gosh. Thankyou so so much to you guys for coming to After School Club last night. I am so so grateful to all of you. You're amazing. All of the speakers involved had an amazing time and they seemed to be as inspired as we were to do some awesome things! Yeah! I havent sorted out the photos yet so instead I've posted a pic of one of my (multitudinous) bags as i think the look on the cats face pretty much sums up how I'm feeling.

Oh and in response to Gen's earlier post about some kind of collab thing what do you reckon we go and buy a few sheets of A0 card from the shop and have our own nous vous style drawing club one evening? that would be super fun!

THANKYOU BIFF. I am so happy that you are my classmates. YOU WIN!

Hey guys, I think this artist is amazin.... thought some of you might like his stuff too. he's called Buffmonster, lives in LA and loves pink. here's his blog:

http://www.buffmonster.com/art.php?type=paintings

Book Autopsies

Well done all on completing another CVCS week. Here's a site called book autopsies which is what I'm sure we'd all love to do to our CVCS books!

Picture Book

I hope everyone took an hour out of dissertation hell to watch picture book on bb4 last night... If (like me, who was, rather unwisely, at her boyfriends (who turns out not to have bb4!), not doing work) you missed it catch it on iplayer, here. it's really worth watching. do it!

Here is my text/image piece too. ok i'll stop posting today now. ps is everyone coming to the traverse to meet the collab partner on friday?

Collaboration Station

Hey guys, I'd really like to do some collaborative drawing.. is anyone up for doing some next week? I know Kirsten is interested.... still really up for doing our monster book! Is anyone else? I've planned to do some as part of my dissertation but it could evolve into some really innovative and exciting work if you guys get invovled (and it would be an excellent talking point in your portfolio)... The drawings I have planned are totally fun and playful. Here are some examples of what I was thinking of.

aaauuuuhhuw!

GUYS!!! I just found this amazing blog, a drawing a day (like us of course).. take your time to have a look, i'm sure there will be something you like, she's pure prolific man eh.

http://www.laurennassef.com/category/drawing-a-day/

Here's a drawing for Kirsten's post...

Kirsten's brilliant suggestion that we go and draw operatic rehearsals was crying out for a picture. Here's one from Lisa Evans:

Ohmigod, its sunny (a very boring post)

Hey, Its lovely out but maybe just a little cold.

I got this e-mail from the ESO an operatic society:
Hi Kirsten,

I've asked the committee about your last email and we are all really keen for you to come along to one of our rehearsals. I presume you want to come along to some of the 'blocking' rehearsals - these are in December and January. As we will not have covered much ground, directing-wise, this term can i suggest you come along to one of our rehearsals in January, i think you'd find them more interesting?

Let me know what you think, we are really keen for you to come along. Also, it might be quite nice to include some of the sketches in our programme for the opera, if you didn't mind.

I can give you a better idea of dates for January in a few weeks when the director and producer have finalised them but let me know what you think.

Best wishes,

Anna McAlpine
Secretary ESO

What do you think?

Also it would be great to have a lifedrawing outing or whatever next week, anyone got any ideas?

And we are having another wee meeting in the studio on monday at 12 to figure out what card etc to buy, who is going to print the cards and fold them and what people intend to sell at the christmas fair.

Sorry, for the lack of pretty in this post....