Ulises Farinas' awesome lego superheroes

New York based illustrator and cartoonist Ulises Farina has drawn both the DC and Marvel universes LEGO style. Click on the pictures for the original sizes.

www.ulisesfarinas.com

via lego diem.

The artistic method

Very cute animation by the nice folks over at the Tubbypaws.


tubbypaws.blogspot.com

Super person of the week: Bryan Lee O'Malley

Bryan Lee O'Malley is the creator of the super-ace comic Scott Pilgrim, which has been getting a lot of (very well deserved) attention since it first came out in 2004. The 6-book series is not even finished yet, but it is already being adapted into a movie, and I bet will be in a lot of people's "best comics of 00s" list.

Prior to Scott Pilgrim, O'Malley illustrated the Oni Press mini-series Hopeless Savages: Ground Zero, and published his first graphic novel Lost at Sea in 2003.

www.radiomaru.com
www.scottpilgrim.com

David M. Buisán

David M. Buisán is an illustrator based in Barcelona working in a range of projects for magazines, book publishers, advertising agencies and film studios. I love all the geeky pop culture references in his work - so good!!

buisanart.com
davidmbuisan.blogspot.com

Tommy Kane's buildings illustrations

Tommy Kane is probably more well known for his advertising work, but what really blew me away when discovering his website the other day were his postcard-style coloured pencil drawings of buildings and cityscapes. Super nice style!

tommykaneillustration.com
tommykane.blogspot.com

Andrew Fulton's take on other artists' comics

Andrew Fulton has been drawing various characters from comics he likes, and by the looks of it, he likes a lot of my favourite comics. So far he's got Brian Ralphy's Daybreak, David Mazzucchelli's Asterios Polyp, Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan, Neil Gaiman's Sandman, Matt Forsythe's Ojingogo, Jim Woodring's Frank and a little protrait of Scott Mccloud. Awesomeness!

View the whole series on this flickr page.

www.mumblier.com
www.flickr.com/photos/andrewfulton&n

Unmasked

The New Yorker comic strip by Chris Ware.


See the original here.

Pigeon: Impossible

Great 3D animated short by Lucas Martell.


www.pigeonimpossible.com

Super person of the week: Paul Grist

I just only discovered Paul Grist a couple of months back and am now a big fan. He has had published work since the 80s, both in mainstream and small press publishers, but what is the most well known for are his tittles - the unorthodox superhero series Jack Staff and hard-boiled police series Kane, both of which he is the writer as well as the penciler and inker.

www.bigcosmiccomic.blogspot.com

Marvel papercraft

Boxpunx is Jason Edward Harlan (aka Harlancore)'s papercraft site. There's tons of really good stuff there, but the marvel series are just TOO good. They can be viewed and downloaded here and here.

www.harlancore.com/boxpunx

Brian Despain's new show available online

Brian Despain has a new exhibition along with John Brophy opening tonight in Seattle and the whole show is also available to be viewed online. Thank you to Roq La Rue Gallery for making it so.

www.despainart.com
www.roqlarue.com

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Burning safari

Awesome student project by Florent de La Taille, Jeanne Irzenski, Vincent Aupetit, Claude-William Trébutien, Maxime Maleo and Aurélien Prédal. The video is available as a free dowload, along with
the characters initial sketches and videos of the making off over at burningsafari.com.

www.burningsafari.com

Super person of the week: Jeff Soto

Mixing graffiti influences with fine art and using toys, skateboarding, hip-hop and popular culture as inspiration, Jeff Soto is another big name in the whole lowbrow movement in California.

He's had numberless exhibitions and shows over the past years, and his some of his work's been compiled into a couple of books - Potato stamps (now sold out) and Storm Clouds.

www.jeffsoto.com
www.potatostamp.com
www.myspace.com/jeffsoto

Danny Zabbal

I have been meaning to post about Danny Zabbal for a while - He is the author of the weekly webcomic Journey in the Sixth Dimension and a freelance illustrator and cartoonist. His flickr set of oddball superheroes puts a smile on my face anyday.

www.dannyzabbal.com
www.flickr.com/photos/dannyzabbal

Emma Kelly

How good are these highly-detailed, beautifully-drawn illustrations by Emma Kelly?



www.iliketodrawthings.com

3D pixel art

I'm loving the 3D pixel illustrations Metin Seven has been posting on LCS. He has a growing gallery of the images on his website, ranging from alternative Pixar movie posters and cartoon characters to classic 8-bit video games. Great stuff!!

www.sevensheaven.nl
www.flickr.com/photos/sevensheaven