Artist Camille Rose Garcia has illustrated a new version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. I’d read her book instead of seeing the Tim Burton film. He’s really just the most obnoxiously untalented movie-maker.  He is mistakenly called a ‘dark’ director.  He is not.  Actually, he is as moronically cheerful and sunshiny as Walt [...]

Stephen Worth of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive has an excellent post about how Gustaf Tenggren developed illustrations techniques that led directly to the classic Golden Book style of illustration.
Read the article here

Dallas Clayton is an author who has written and illustrated An Awesome Book.  It’s about making sure your dreams are enormous.  Petty little dreams are so out.  Big huge ones with rockets on their backs are ultra-in.
I like the looks of this book and I really like big dreams whenever they come around.  I like [...]

Michael Nobbs has posted a little booklet on Flickr that has a list of 75 ways to draw more.  Interesting concept.  But of course it should go without saying that if you need to read a list of 75 ways to find more time to draw, you probably should be doing something else anyway.
I think [...]

This is an illustration by Isabelle Arsenault for a picture book called Mr. Gauguin’s Heart, published in 2004. She is based in Montreal, Canada and has been a finalist for The Governor General’s Literary Awards in 2008.
I like the oil-painting approach and the way she evokes illustration styles from the past.

Artist Dave Gibbons did a video workshop revealing how he paints the Watchmen character Rorschach using digital tools.  The video was produced for ImagineFX magazine which is dedicated to fantasy, sci-fi, comic and manga artists.

Here’s an illustration from Miguel de Cervantes’ novel, Don Quixote. It was done by Gustave Doré. It shows Don Quixote reading a book of chivalry in his library.  I love the way Doré shows all the madness of Quixote’s imagination surrounding him in his chair as if his imagination and the book were coming to [...]