Links

Here is a collection of some of the stuff presently residing in my Favorites folder. Some might be interesting, some not so much.

Art → Resources

  • Drawn! - A blog based on posting things related to illustration and animation. Good things show up frequently. Helpful for inspiration or sullen gawking.
  • Character Design - Another good resource. I have trouble finding the archives, unfortunately.

Art → Galleries → English

  • Lauren Nassef: Drawing-a-Day - A daily drawing project by Lauren Nassef. New drawing five days a week.
  • FridayEve - Personal website of an illustrator in the games industry. Beautiful studies posted to the blog occasionally(though presently there is some downtime).
  • Pond of Weary Faces - Dark, sketchy style. Hasn’t been updated in a while.
  • Catia Chen - Watercolory stuff.
  • I’m Scared - Heavily abstracted, surreal paintings.
  • Mostly Wanted - Slick commercial illustrations.
  • Ghostco - The illustrations are all together in one Flash-based interface, which is both interesting and a hassle. You have to manually scroll through it all with a button at the bottom.
  • Woodyart - Stylized illustration.
  • Gezfry - Terrific line work, as well as blending of drawing and photography.
  • Kenichi Hoshine - Paintings probably best described as minimalist and striking.
  • Potatohavetoes - Fun and random little pieces that cover a lot of ground.
  • David Ho - Paintings done in a darker style(aesthetically and thematically).
  • blackmoontides - Percy’s website. Work in the style of Japanese animation. Recently super updated!
  • Juergen Specht - Japan-based photographer with all kinds of sets. The one on Japanese homeless is especially interesting, and I like all of the sets of abandoned ruins. Gunkanjima is probably my favorite.
  • Chris Jordan Photography - Absolutely staggering large-scale images of the results of a consumerism-based society. I’d really like to see some of his prints up close some day.
  • Red Nose Studio - Chris Sickels makes little figures and photographs them in little constructed sets. Also some stop-motion animation.

Art → Galleries → Asian

  • KYMG - Range of excellent stuff, even including some crazy lineart-based animation of chicken-headed villains.
  • PAINT - Variety of works, mostly older.
  • Bandalmass - Some commercial work, interesting character design.
  • Secret of Plant Worms House - As curious a collection of work as the name implies. Also has a unique approach to website layout.
  • Lotus Eater - Most work presently looks to be based in a oekaki-type program. Strong elements of color, composition, and line use.
  • tkotrxtiny - Watercolor-based work that reminds me of Miyazaki.
  • BM WORKS - Uses a wiki-based format for the gallery. Plethora of extremely detailed pixel-level work.

Art → Galleries → Other

  • Julian de Narvaez - Fascinating collection of illustrations.
  • Zumbakamera - Amusing approach to layout. Some illustration, as well as animation.

Comics

  • Achewood - Deceptively simplistic artwork fronts some of the best raw character development I’ve seen in comics. Most of the characters even have blogs!
  • Scary go round - Long-running daily comic series with humor and wit.
  • The Perry Bible Fellowship - The creator, unfortunately, quit. So, like the entry below(A Lesson is Learn…), it is simply a good archive.
  • A Lesson is Learned but the Damage is Irreversible - The writer and artist stopped producing comics, but the archives are worth going through once or twice.
  • Order of the Stick - Stick-based comics both celebrating and jeering tabletop gaming.
  • Garfield minus Garfield - Traditional Garfield strips that have had the cat removed. Very bizarre results.