Penny Arcade

This series is interesting and really well done.

Recovering

Hi everyone,
Sorry if I was a little wiggy yesterday. It was great to see all of you, even in a partially-conscious fog. Greg, I found the Ted Rall and Joe Sacco we talked about yesterday, along with a Bill Mauldin book you might find useful. I also posted the final version of the illustration I was working on yesterday (finished 1:00 am). Noah sleep now.

Inspiration

Last week Noah and I were discussing some things that inspire us to do work (songs, movies, etc) and I brought up this composer (I really think it needs a good video to go along with the song...)

2009 Eisner Awards

From Hypergeek

Some links

First, a bit of fun

A fun take on the Rocky Horror Picture Show

An interesting all-around artist

Wasn't sure if anyone has seen this before

The Tank Girl comic blog

I tend to stumble across interesting/strange digital artists from time to time

If you haven't heard of Zero Punctuation, it's a good place to check for occasional entertaining game reviews done in spectacular British monologues.

Comic Tools

Comic Tools has good tutorials and descriptions of how to use certain tools.

New Video by David O'Reilly and Jon Klassen

U2 - I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight from David OReilly on Vimeo.

Bone

I really enjoyed reading Bone and loved the artwork. This documentary looks interesting.

The Penny Arcade guys have archived videos of some strips on Ustream.

Also, Bryan Lee O'Malley's website (the graphic novels/comics I was showing today). And since it's a little hard to find on his site, here's the link to his personal music (which is pretty good in my opinion).

Oh, and I stumbled across the homepage of one Daniel Kim whose work is pretty stellar.

~edit~ Did some asking around about larger scanning issues. Someone suggested taking multiple photos of work and merging them with this nifty piece of software. It apparently works incredibly well for landscape/panorama photos, so with care and appropriate levels adjustment it should work for personal art stuff.

Who would've thought it true?

Roller derby EXISTS in Moscow.

The Mythical Beatles Trailer

Sorry about the jumpy playback yesterday. Here is a better version online.

More stuff

Some links I said I'd post.

What I do is Secret
The body reference stuff/printouts I brought with me were from this guy's DA site.
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Stephen Silver
Has done a lot of character work for nickelodeon.

Cave Story
A tribute site for a great free side-scrolling game. The person who made it also has another great looking one coming out soon called Fez!

editoral note

I have tweaked the formatting of the posts so that they can read more clearly. Please let me know if there are any problems or you'd like to see subsequent changes.

Various Links (with NO camel spiders!)

Things that I am grooving on right now that you might enjoy (this is a very eclectic list):

• First, Spongebob
• Second, Jon Klassen
• Then Sam Bosma
• To cleanse the palette, a tribute to Where the Wild Things Are
• Introducing Uwe Heidschoetter
• Don't miss Lou Romano's color scripts from UP

Ok, that's enough.  You'll never get anything done if you spend all your time looking at the crap I post. 

Wait, there is one more thing. My updated website. Comments and criticism welcome.

Sam, Yuko, James and camel spiders

Here are some of the things I'm inspired by at the moment:

My current obsession, Sam Weber
Another great illustrator, Yuko Shimizu, has a great interview on the business and practice: here
You probably also already know James Jean.

Here's an interesting flickr set tutorial on inking with ink and brush.

Lastly:

On digital illustration

A digital illustrator I mentioned at the last meeting

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Some videos of his process

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And one of his equally talented friends

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Click the archive link on his site to see his work (will be up top)


Also the link to the 25 facial/character expressions chart (great practice!)

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And some examples

[1] [2] [3] [4]

Massive Black

Hello everyone. It was great seeing you yesterday. Looking forward to it next week. You may already know about this, but it's prescient regarding our discussions about digital illustration. The studio is called Massive Black (http://massiveblack.com/mbNew/html/illustration1.shtml). In my opinion, they're one of the best. They've got an illustrator who calls himself Nox. I've never seen his equal. Also you can download process videos and tutorials. Pretty cool stuff.

-Noah

Hello!

This is Stasia - I guess I'll go with the trend and post my blog address: http://stasiab.wordpress.com/
Today was a lot of fun! It's good to meet you all, and I'm looking forward to seeing the new work this summer brings. I'll see most of you next Wednesday!

Umm, hey

So, my name's Andy Potter, and here's a link to my blog. Yeah. Swing on by and say hello if you feel like it. I'll try and post some more photos of recent work on it soon.

Blog Address

Hello. Here's the address for my blog. It has just about everything I've worked on for the last two years (even the stuff I would ordinarily never show like concept drawings). If you're interested, drop on by and hopefully I'll see some of you on Wednesday at Sister's Brew. In the meantime, here are a few examples of recent work. Cheers. -Noah Kroese