Link of the Week: Jeremy Slagle

We're sharing this artist in preparation of Lillie Templeton's talk on Friday about graphic design. Jeremy Slagle is a Columbus-based Design-Illustrator. He successfully blends graphic design and illustration in a refreshing (not over-done) way.

http://www.jeremyslagle.com/

Vanja Todoric

For this weeks link I'm going to share one of my recent personal finds. The awesome artist Vanja Todoric.

Click here to see more of his work

His style is especially inspiring to me because it has certain similarities to a style I have been experimenting with.

I found this artist while I was at IlluXcon and I was looking though a book of serbian fairytales at Petar Meseldzija's table. Here is a link to the book. Unfortunately it is only in croatian at the moment. But it is a beautiful book and the typography on the cover and all throughout it is just fantastic.

Anyway apart from just sharing a new artist I would just like to encourage everyone to go beyond the normal limits when discovering new artists. It can be difficult to research sometimes especially when you are dealing with foreign artists to track down their websites. But with enough determination you can discover some great things and you won't be trapped in a world of artists that everyone else knows about and that you've seen countless times.

-Wes

LInk of the week

Welcome to this week's LINK OF THE WEEK!!!

This week I'm going to cover two links pertaining to our special guest speaker Lora Innes!!!

The first one is Lora's direct website

The Dreamer

Lora, for those who do not know her, is a web-comic artist who writes and draws The Dreamer.

The Dreamer is about:

Beatrice "Bea" Whaley seems to have it all; the seventeen year old high school senior is beautiful, wealthy and the star performer of the drama club. And with her uncle’s connections to Broadway theater, the future looks bright ahead of her. Little does she know that her future might actually be brighter behind her... 

Bea begins having vivid dreams about a brave and handsome soldier named Alan Warren--a member of an elite group known as Knowlton’s Rangers that served during the Revolutionary War.

 Prone to keeping her head in the clouds, Bea welcomes her nightly adventures in 1776; filled with danger and romance they give her much to muse about the next day. 

But it is not long before Beatrice questions whether her dreams are simply dreams or something more. Each night they pick up exactly where the last one ended. And the senses--the smell of musket shots and cannons, the screams of soldiers in agony, and that kiss--are all far more real than any dream she can remember

 So you should definitely go check it out and get addicted!


The 2nd link of the week is Paper Wings Podcast

Paper Wings is invested all about self improvement for the artist! It is presented in a series of blog post and Podcast that deal with important information that is extremely valuable for any artist wanting to "make it" in the real world.
 It is hosted and run by Lora Innes and Chris Oatley. They both are fantastic people and amazing artist!

One of the podcast I listen to reguarly is : Seven Time Management Tips to Accelerate Your Personal Project

I highly recommend you explore this wonderful website! 

Link Of The Week

Hey Peeps. If you hate illustrator or the pen tool here is some work that has inspired me to become familiar with the program! it really shows that even vector art can be crazy detailed and rendered and as illustrators we should at least know how to use this to our advantage but this guy takes it too a whole other level

Gooo Check him Out his name is Ken Taylor

http://www.kentaylor.com.au/?paged=4

Link of the Week! 10/19/12

Hello everybody!!

This week's link is to an awesome type resource. I know, I know, WE ARE NOT GRAPHIC DESIGN but  these fonts are totally awesome and beautiful and FREE!

 http://losttype.com/

http://losttype.com/

" The Lost Type Co-Op is a Pay-What-You-Want Type foundry, the first of its kind.

Founded by Riley Cran and Tyler Galpin, originally in a whirlwind 24 hour adventure to distribute a single typeface, Lost Type has blossomed into a full fledged foundry, distributing fonts from designers all over the world, with its unique model.

Users have the opportunity to pay whatever they like for a font, you can even type in '$0' for a free download.

100% of funds from these sales go directly to the designers of the fonts, respectively.

Lost Type takes no cut of sales, and holds no funds."

SEE LOOK HOW AWESOME IT IS! To download a font, just go to the font's page and type in "0" under "Name Your Price." (or donate money if you feel generous) Then click Download.

Happy designing dudes! See you tonight at our meeting!

Link of the week! 10/13/12

Hey guys,

Sorry for this super late link of the week, better late than never right?

So I mentioned this in my tutorial last meeting. It's a detailed run through of how light reacts to objects and is very valuable information so i suggest you absorb it and then reflect it in you work ;p

http://www.itchy-animation.co.uk/tutorials/light01.htm

Also here is a tutorial from the guy that taught me my first valuable painting tips.

http://zatransis.deviantart.com/gallery/10399597#/d1vdsye

Have a good week and I look forward to seeing everyone on friday!

This week's post is going to be a post by Paul Richards, not the old movie actor, but a concept artist that works out in Seattle. He has many blogs that you should check out but i'm just going to show you a little of autodestructdigital.blogspot.com and babelab.blogspot.com. In Autodestruct you'll find process concept work for creature, gun, people and much more.

      

Babe Lab is, well, as you might assume, about drawing sexy women. It is said that men are the rough draft and women are the masterpiece, so that makes them a pain to draw. Paul Richards breaks down the female form in simple parts and also talks about what makes sexy vs. not so sexy. 

Link of the Week!

The link of the week is...

Muddy Colors is a fantastic resource for Illustrators at and level or skill, They cover practically everthing you would ever want to know about creating an illustartoin.

 The main contributors to Muddy Colors are
Serge Birault
Tim Brukner
Dan dos Santos
Jesper Ejsing
Eric Fortune
Justin Gerard
Donato Giancola
Gregory Manchess
Petar Meseldzija
John Jude Palencar
Paolo Rivera
Terryl Whitlatch

From how to make a sketch to finished piece, Using reference properly, Possible concepting and much more.. here are some examples.

Showing off their awsome studio!

How to use refernce properly!

Concept Creations!

Creating color studies and finishing a painting.

From Sketch to finish!

This is a great place to learn and grow! You should explore to your hearts content!