Now that Hurricane Earl it officially cruising up the east coast, we thought it might be the perfect time to share this series of hurricane drawings created by our very talented friend, Stephen Floyd. You need to click to enlarge, because each of the 30 hurricanes comes complete with a short and often hilarious bio. I’m not sure if any of these are still available, but I’ll fight whoever gets in my way of owning one.
See the rest of the series HERE.
Holy hell, my eyeballs just fell out of my head! These drawings by Marissa Textor are incredible. I’m not 100% sure what her technique is, but she should guard it with her life.. or I may just try and steal it.
I spent almost 8 hours at LGA airport yesterday waiting to leave on a flight to Chicago.. I am now convinced that a portal to Hell opens up there after 9pm.
The tears being tears of joy that we actually finished these babies! We’ve received a few emails from friends & family asking us how we created our wedding invites, so we decided to do a little (and by little, I mean long) post on it. Read on below:
As you know by now, I have a very hard time editing things I like.. Every computer I have owned eventually gets so crammed full of clipped images, it starts acting like it’s elderly. Anyway, when I first saw Brecht Vandenbroucke‘s work, I was instantly in love. I have so many favorites, there’s absolutely no way for me to trim this down.
Even still, I highly recommend checking out his Flickr site.
So we opened a letterpress factory in our studio this past weekend, printing what seemed like 1,000,000 of our wedding invitations.. but we’re still not done. Since we have multiple colors and 10 different printing plates, we still have a long way to go. Despite it being scorching hot in the studio and the work extremely tedious, it was also really satisfying seeing them come out. We’re definitely still letterpress newbies, but I’m kinda proud of them so far!
To be continued..
If illustrations were a season, these pieces by Patrick Hruby would definitely be summer! Really wonderful, fun work.
I clipped this out of a poster published in 1877 protesting the disputed election results. This was a tiny part of the poster, nice I think.
I love these colored pencil portraits by Toronto native, Winnie Truong (who, I’m pretty sure I read is only just graduating from college..) They’re actually all pretty large, which you can see hanging up on her blog here. I hope she does a 100 more of these.. either way, she’s bound to have a promising career!
This video was created by Spanish team United Fakes, but later dropped as a promo for a season of Tim Burton films on a Dutch tv channel. Pretty incredible, especially if you watch the making of it below that.
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I know it’s officially baseball season and all, but the NFL draft begins today, and that’s all it takes to get me excited about the upcoming football season. I have been trying to get my hands on a copy of The Illustrated History of the American Football Uniform for quite awhile now, but it appears to be decades out-of-print and very hard to find. Here are a few favorite images I have saved.
Decatur Staleys (aka: da Bears!), 1922 & Green Bay Packers, 1921
New York Giants, 1934 & Detroit Lions, 1940
Chicago Bears, 1936 & Los Angeles Rams, 1948
Duluth Eskimos 1926 & Cleveland Browns, 1950
John K (aka John Kricfalusi) creator of Ren & Stimpy, is putting together a book and is looking for any sketches, doodles, and all other artwork created for Ren & Stimpy. Here’s just a few, but see more HERE.
August seems to be quickly approaching, which is kind of a good thing b/c planning a small out-of-state shindig has proved harder than we originally thought it would be. Wes & I decided on sending out simple 6in x 6in postcards that had a bit of folk art feel to them.
I sketched up an image that included both our home states and the tiny church we’ll be married in. I then painted the color separately and layered them together to give a slightly silk-screened effect. We then built our own site (more on that later) and will be letterpressing our own invites with our brand-new (but old) letterpress.
see the sketch for the card below:
Hey all of you Thersians, I’m doing some doodles of your tweets over at Twaggies now. So if you say something dumb or funny on Twitter, I may end up drawing it.. you’ve been warned.
