Today's Inspiration

Today's Inspiration - a place for those with an interest in illustration from the '40s and '50s to share their knowledge, views and opinions started by Leif Peng. If you'd like to join the Today's Inspiration daily email list and receive one scan each day at full size, just send Peng an email through the address leifpeng@gmail.com and put 'Sign me up!' in the subject line. Enjoy! ;-)

Ben Heine Art

A talented illustrator and photographer, Ben Heine has put together an amazing ongoing project called ‘Pencil Vs Camera.’ His creative thinking combines both art and pictures portraying two different things within the same scene. Ben creates a strong perspective for the viewer by expertly matching the lines of the background scenery. These visual impacts have become a favorite among artists and photographers.

Check out the full collection of ‘Pencil Vs Camera’ here. To read more about Ben, and view his other work/photography, visit his blog.

Stuff no one told me.

Alex Noriega is a dude from Barcelona that likes to draw stuff. At some point in 2010 Alex was going through a crisis due to some work isues. As he said, he decided to start Stuff no one told me blog as a way of trying to find what he was doing wrong.

I wanted to put on paper all that I had learned in life as simple as possible and try to see if what was happening around me made any sense. It didn't.

yearinmerde - barth

yearinmerde is a cool animation blog of animator/illustrator named Barth.

Art Jumble

Art Jumble is a weekly community that supports illustration, comics, animation and really any creative medium.

Every Monday a topic is announced and any member can submit a piece about that topic. Members who post are the sole authors of their work and have all rights to their own pieces.

The Magic Whistle

The Magic Whistle is a collection of doodles, strips, childhood drawings, attempts at strips, comics collection, humor magazines from Sam Henderson. He has been doing comics, illustration and writing popular among people aware of their existence since his birth, though he wasn't paid for it until 1991. In addition to his own book, The Magic Whistle, clients have included Nickelodeon, New York Press, DC Comics, Heavy Metal, and Screw. He was a storyboard director for SpongeBob Squarepants in 2001.

John K Stuff

Started at February 13, 2006 by John Kricfalusi, John K Stuff is posting about cartoons and the animation industry. The blog was originally intended for other artists and entertainers, and specifically other cartoonists.

John Kricfalusi (pronounced Kris-falusi, born Michael John Kricfalusi), better known as John K, is a Canadian animator. He is creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show, The Ripping Friends animated series, and Weekend Pussy Hunt, which was billed as "the world's first interactive web-based cartoon," as well as the founder of animation studio Spümcø.

Indexed

Created by Jessica Hagy, and chronicled on her blog, which is a collection of charts and diagrams hand drawn on 3x5 index cards and organized into a blog format. She has compiled her cartoons into a book called Indexed.

Started in August of 2006, Indexed has been noted around the web. Let's listen to Jessica described about her project:

"This is a little project that allows me to make fun of some things and sense of others without resorting to doing actual math." - said on her blog - "Today, I’d have to take the word ‘little’ out of that line."

Animal Art Adventures

Animal Art Adventures - An Art Journal to showcase new work and talk about life in general behind the easel. Awesome pet potraits were drawing by Laura Hardie, who was borned in Edinburgh in 1967. Laura Hardie has built a reputation through many years of working solely to commission as one of the UK’s finest animal portraitists in coloured pencil and graphite.