John Nava’s Tapestry design’s for the L.A. cathedral was a wake up call for me as to what a 2-D artist could bring to a large scale architectural project. The cash cow for such projects usually going to 3-D art or overpriced Blue chip 2-d stock that was more a decoration as part of an investment portfolio than a serious part of the architectural design process.
Here’s the story on the tapestries.
The whole cathedral is a unique and beautiful monument but that’s another story.
Really nice new cover design for an old subject and the creative design process posted here.
Along with a quote from the Designer, Malika Favre
When you are an illustrator the challenge everytime you get a commission such as this one is to hit the right note, no matter how many goes you have at it .Most importantly: the end result has to look effortless so that all those rounds of feedback and changes have to disappear behind that end result. The process behind a project like this is however much more time consuming and sometimes challenging than it looks. And this one was a tough one, believe me : )
Using the Pixar short “Presto” as content for an exercise in storyboard art.
Reverse engineer the storyboard sequence from this film.
Lots of action and cuts (over 100 at my count) and no dialogue should make for a very expressive sequence.
Each drawn frame should be numbered and describe camera moves and key sound element to help support the narrative.
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I was living in L.A. when Mark Ryden came galloping out of the subconscious and burst onto the scene with the Meat Show at the Mendenhall Gallery in Pasadena. He was all over the place after that. Spontanious combustion. Pure americana.
His website here.
This book floated to the top of the pile when searching for Sophie’s books of the week. I am glad I found it. A beautiful and imaginatively story told entirely through illustrations, with no written narrative. David Wiesner won his third Caldecott award with this book ‘Flotsam”.
I probably shouldn’t try a french title since Emily Damstra is from Canada and probably speaks French Eh?
I came across her stuff while trying to concept an assignment today and was just outright impressed by her style, technique, range and work ethic.
She is one very busy lady. Evident in her website here and her blog here which also offers some excellent insights into her profession.
Medical Illustration has been around a long time and for different reasons. Leonardo was doing it before photography just to record how things worked. I remember leafing through an anatomy book in grade school and was impressed by studies printed on clear acetate showing successive layers of human systems, derma, skeletal, circulatory etc. med Illustration is still used today to map out “or storyboard” a procedure as in the case of this beautiful rendering of internal info of co-joined twins for Mayo Clinic by Michael King. There is a lot more info at the Assn. of Medical Illustrators including info on training, certification and careers. Hey maybe this is a new direction for me.
A nice contrast of flat costume and dimensional flesh in Nouveau style sexy. This is a Stanley Lau Character “Pepper”.
His handle on deviantART is Artgerm. Very talented and apparently busy illustrator and concept designer from Singapore.
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