I’ve got lots of grumps against Apple’s iPad, like the lack of support for Flash, one of the greatest web technologies in existence. But this Alice in Wonderland eBook looks fantastic. I’d love to make all the pictures move around and I think kids will too. This must be right because when I was a kid I fervently wished for every illustration to wake up and start moving.
Category Archives: Illustration
New Illustrated Alice in Wonderland
Artist Camille Rose Garcia has illustrated a new version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
obnoxiously untalented movie-maker. He is mistakenly called a ‘dark’ director. He is not. Actually, he is as moronically cheerful and sunshiny as Walt Disney. And Johnny Depp’s entire talent and technique as a performer resides within his wrists. It’s bravura wrist-acting. So skip the lumbering slog of a film and read the excellent book with the beautiful illustrations by Garcia.
Her pictures make me want to read the book again. Here’s a L.A. Times Jacket Copy article about the artist.
Gustaf Tenggren and the Classic Golden Book Style
Sleeping Beauty by Gustaf Tenggren
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.
An Awesome Book
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 the way the author draws too.
You can purchase Mr. Clayton’s book here.
But you can also read the whole entire thing for free right here.
I think you should read it online and then buy one or two to give away.
75 Ways to Draw More: Advice for People Who Don’t Draw
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 the main information to take away from an illustrated list like this is from the illustrations that show you how to print the list out. What they show you is that you can just look at an object and start drawing lines on a piece of paper. Something will emerge. It might be messy. It might be neat. That will be your drawing. I call this little piece of advice ‘1 way to draw less.’
Illustration by Isabelle Arsenault
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.
