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Pop culture characters organized by color
French illustrator Linda Bouderbala did a fun exercise where she gathered some of her favorite characters from geek and pop culture and organized them by color. Her Instagram has plenty of other fun...
View ArticleCloseness lines
Kottke spotted Olivia de Recat's curiously affecting illustrations of how relationships change over time and I can't help but signal boost. Hopefully she'll be taking orders for prints again soon: "In...
View ArticleArtist surgically removes Xenomorph from his drawing of a man
View this post on Instagram "Xenomorph Extraction Video Tutorial" Here's an updated version of this animation because it's always good to remember how to extract a xenomorph. • • • • • #scifi...
View Article150,000 nature illustrations from around the world enter the public domain...
A huge collection of flora and fauna illustrations have just entered the public domain. Hyperalleric writes: Had he lived in our time, Thoreau would’ve been thrilled to know that the Biodiversity...
View ArticleVideo: Behind the scenes of the Astro Boy anime (1963)
Osamu Tezuka's iconic Astro Boy TV series premiered on New Year's Day, 1963. (First episode below.) By some accounts, the cartoon was watched at its most popular point by 40% of Japanese people with a...
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Artist reimagines classic horror films as vintage Disney children's books
Swedish artist Daniel Björk is the mad mind behind these wonderfully evil visions of classic horror films reimagined as Disney's Wonderful World of Reading vintage children's books. My wish upon a...
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Milton Glaser, legendary graphic designer, RIP
Milton Glaser, the graphic designer who defined the visual style of the 1960s and 1970s, has died at age 91 of a stroke. Thanks for all the color, Mr. Glaser. You've seen his work everywhere, from the...
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Vintage UK illustrations of rocks and minerals repurposed as a cool poster...
Data artist Nicholas Rougeux created a gorgeous collage of over 2,000 early 19th-century illustrations by James Sowerby. The public domain images were organized from over 700 color plates by color as...
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The NY Times presents 74 of its "favorite facts" for 2020
I enjoyed Clay Hickson's thumbprint illustrations (which remind me of Ed Emberley's Great Thumbprint Drawing Book) as much as the 74 facts that The New York Times collected from its stories during...
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Cartoonist Charles Burns' secret zine is available as a book
As a huge fan of Charles Burns' popular graphic novels such as Black Hole and the X'ed Out trilogy, it was awesome to find out about his art book, Free Shit. What was once a zine that Burns would give...
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With how much force did brachiosauruses vomit?
The answer to the question posed by the headline is about 68,000 Newtons per hurl, assuming 110 pounds of vomit projected from a 45ft height onto packed sand below. That would be more than enough to...
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An AI illustrates Taylor Swift in the style of different comic book artists
Like a lot of other people, I've been having fun with the AI illustrators that have been popping up — particularly the free service Craiyon, formerly known as DALL•E Mini. So I asked it to draw me a...
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A day in the life of a game illustrator
Crafting video games is a layered and intricate process. If you've ever stuck around to examine the end credits after beating a video game, you know how many talented people it takes to create the...
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Behold the Wikipedia arthropod illustrations of Junnn11
Junnn11 has contributed dozens of beautiful, precise yet adorably cartoonish Creative Commons-licensed illustrations of arthropods to Wikipedia. [via Hacker News]
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I love these spooky and playful shadow illustrations from 1856
I love these spooky and playful shadow illustrations from 1856. In Shadows, Charles H. Bennett presents illustrations of everyday people with silly, bizarre, and sometimes menacing shadows. For...
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