Podcasts about freelance illustration and comic art.
http://illustrationparty.blogspot.com/
http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/
http://www.chrisoatley.com/
http://ninjamountain.blogspot.com/
http://javilandblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.wippodcast.com/
http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss45791.xml
June 30, 2009
Bianca Ryan
Bianca Ryan
Bianca Taylor Ryan (born September 1, 1994) is an American singer and guitarist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who won the debut season of NBC's America's Got Talent at age eleven.
http://www.biancaryan.com/
http://www.myspace.com/biancaryan
June 29, 2009
June 28, 2009
June 26, 2009
British movies
Hoffman (1969) staring Peter Sellers and Sinéad Cusack
A strange and touching love story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoffman_(film)
The Browning Version (1951)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Browning_Version_(1951_film)
http://www.criterion.com/films/873
June 24, 2009
Glenn Barr Elsewhere Show
Attended the opening night of the Glenn Barr's Elsewhere show at Outre gallery on 19th June. Always great to see the original paintings up close. Here are some photos from the night.
http://www.outregallery.com/browse.aspx?Category=166
June 23, 2009
Tombow Mono 100 Professional Drawing Pencils
http://www.dickblick.com/products/tombow-mono-professional-drawing-pencils/
http://www.pencilthings.com/blog/tombow-mono-100-mono-r-and-mono-j-pencils-are-coming-to-pencilthingscom/
http://www.penciltalk.org/2006/09/top-japanese-pencils-the-mitsubishi-hi-uni-and-the-tombow-mono-100
June 22, 2009
June 21, 2009
Isabel Samaras
Isabel Samaras
http://www.astrocat.com/samaras/
Interview with Isabel Samaras
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/around_town/the_scene/Isabel_Samaras_.html
June 20, 2009
Devin Crane
Devin Crane
Devin Crane is an animator and character designer at Dreamworks. I saw his designs in the making of Monsters and Aliens book.
http://devincrane.com/
Krista Huot
Krista Huot
http://www.kristahuot.com/
Flickr site
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kristahuot/
interview with Krista Huot
http://arrestedmotion.com/2009/05/interview-krista-huot-quiet-storm-g1988-gallery-1988/
June 18, 2009
June 17, 2009
Life drawing
Life drawing classes in Melbourne
ink and lead at Newport
http://www.inkandlead.com.au/
Dr sketchy in South Melbourne
http://drsketchymelbourne.com/
ink and lead at Newport
http://www.inkandlead.com.au/
Dr sketchy in South Melbourne
http://drsketchymelbourne.com/
Anna Biller's Viva
Viva is a first feature by independent film maker Anna Biller.
A colorful sexploitation comedy set in the 1970's.
http://www.lifeofastar.com/aboutanna.html
Her blog
http://www.lifeofastar.com/blog.html
Amazon link
June 15, 2009
Jan Frazier
Jan Frazier
When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening
http://www.janfrazierteachings.com/blog/
Jan was interviewed on New Dimensions radio
http://newdimensions.org/
June 14, 2009
Michael Gillette
Michael Gillette
To celebrate the 100th year anniversary of the birth of Ian Flemming , publishing powerhourse Penguin recently commissioned the very talented British born, San Francisco painter Michael Gillette to paint iconic covers of 14 James Bond novels.
Blog
http://pencilsqueezing.blogspot.com/
Website
http://www.michaelgillette.com
http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/articles/interview_michael_gillette.php3
Interview
http://www.lifelounge.com/Michael-Gillette-does-sexy-Bond-girls-like-no-other.aspx
June 13, 2009
Tom Chantrell
Tom Chantrell was one of the legends of British poster art.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2001/jul/28/guardianobituaries.filmnews
http://hammerhorrorposters.com/tomchantrell.html
Author Sim Branaghan lecture on British poster artists
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/podcasts/?yr=2007
June 12, 2009
Arnaldo Putzu
Arnaldo Putzu
Italian Movie poster artist. He also illustrated many covers for Look-In magazine in the 80's.
http://www.illustrationartgallery.com/acatalog/Illustration_Art_Arnaldo_Putzu_199.html
http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/main/merc/vmclookin.html
http://www.animus-web.demon.co.uk/lookin/colin1.html
June 11, 2009
Operation Good Guys
Before The Office there was "Operation Good Guys". One of the funniest UK comedies ever made.
http://tinyurl.com/njs39g
June 9, 2009
Digital zip-tone
Here's the process for adding digital zip-tone to your linework.
http://zettwoch.blogspot.com/2008/09/gone-fishin-halftone-how-to.html
1) Scan my lineart drawing at 600 DPI grayscale.
2) Play with the levels to make the ink look black and the paper look white. change the image size to the final printed size.
3) Convert the file to 1200 DPI bitmap, with the setting to 50% threshold. You do this because you ultimately want your lineart to be totally crisp and not halftoned.
4) Convert the file back to grayscale leaving it at 1200 DPI.
5) Go through and add the gray tones with a 20% K. You could do it darker if you wanted more dense dots. (no need to do it on a separate layer, just use the paint bucket or a brush set to 'darken' or whatever. All you should have a white pixels, black pixels, and the gray tone pixels)
6) Convert it to back to 1200 DPI bitmap, with the 'haftone screen' settings set like this. frequency 45 angle 30 degrees.
The main thing is that your art is thresholded before you start adding grays. Otherwise when you go to turn the whole thing to halftone your art will get a tiny bit fuzzy around the edges.
http://zettwoch.blogspot.com/2008/09/gone-fishin-halftone-how-to.html
1) Scan my lineart drawing at 600 DPI grayscale.
2) Play with the levels to make the ink look black and the paper look white. change the image size to the final printed size.
3) Convert the file to 1200 DPI bitmap, with the setting to 50% threshold. You do this because you ultimately want your lineart to be totally crisp and not halftoned.
4) Convert the file back to grayscale leaving it at 1200 DPI.
5) Go through and add the gray tones with a 20% K. You could do it darker if you wanted more dense dots. (no need to do it on a separate layer, just use the paint bucket or a brush set to 'darken' or whatever. All you should have a white pixels, black pixels, and the gray tone pixels)
6) Convert it to back to 1200 DPI bitmap, with the 'haftone screen' settings set like this. frequency 45 angle 30 degrees.
The main thing is that your art is thresholded before you start adding grays. Otherwise when you go to turn the whole thing to halftone your art will get a tiny bit fuzzy around the edges.
June 8, 2009
Francine York
Francine York
Tall, statuesque, well-endowed brunette who carved out a nice career for herself in cult movies, feature films, and television sitcoms in the 60s and 70s.
Miss York worked as a model in her late teenage years and early twenties before one of her modeling supervisors decided she would be good in Hollywood.
Still attractive at 67 years of age, Miss York still appears in sitcoms and shows no signs of slowing down. Her credits include memorable appearances on "Bewitched" (1964), "Batman" (1966) and "My Favorite Martian" (1963), and her movie credits included The Nutty Professor (1963).
http://www.francineyork.com/
http://www.francineyork.com/auto/framauto.htm
June 7, 2009
June 5, 2009
June 4, 2009
June 3, 2009
Modern Retro
http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlepixel/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacesick/sets/72157614482499746/
"Classic records lost in time and format, re-emerged as Pelican books."
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