Monday, October 31, 2016
Great Job Internet!
Great Job Internet!
by Cory Godbey
Hey, great job, internet! I mean it. If you can manage to tune out the garbage (which is not easy, I know) the month of March hasnt been all that bad for finding good things online.
I decided to collect a few gems here. Enjoy!
Fathoms
Michael Manomivibul is creating an art book chronicling his best works from 2009 until the present. The Kickstarter for the project launches today! This is one that I cant wait to see in print. Ive gotten to know Mike over the last few years through a handful of conventions and Im proud to call him a friend. His work possesses this haunting, dreamlike quality that I think is wonderful.
______________________________________
Irene Gallos Facebook Album: Green
Irene Gallos Facebook Album: Green
Art Director Irene Gallo has been pulling together an ongoing series of themed Facebook albums. The diverse collections include past and contemporary works all on a particular, unifying theme.
Her current series is titled, simply, Green. Take a look here!
______________________________________
Paul Bonners Big Painting
______________________________________
Best Art Illustration
Paul Bonners Big Painting
Yes, indeed, measuring at over three feet (the painting, not the man) the inimitable wizard Paul Bonner has completed his largest painting to date in this fine month of March.
Using his arcane knowledges (and purported dark arts dabbling) Paul has created yet another thing of wonder, beauty, and power. Oh look! Goblins!
Muddy Colors own Howard Lyon curates a terrific series of, you guessed it, the best art and illustration. I couldnt possibly write a more precise (and concise) blurb myself so I swiped one this from directly from Howard: "Daily sharing of beautiful art and illustration from past and current masters." Yes, Howard gave this a plug on his post last week but I wanted to give it another bump!
You can follow on Twitter, Instagram, or as I have done, on both.
______________________________________
@LostDrawings
@LostDrawings
I guess this ones been around a while but its new to me this month, the Twitter account @LostDrawings.
You can find everything from contemporary fantasy to comics to Old Masters to advertising art from the 60s on the @LostDrawings. I appreciate the incredibly wide variety of work thats posted throughout the day.
______________________________________
Zootopia
Zootopia
Recently, Cory Loftis (the "other" Cory, the rich mans Cory) a visual development artist at Disney, dropped a ton of Zootopia concept art over on his Tumblr. Theres a wealth of character design information to be gleaned!
______________________________________
Hannah Christensons Warm Ups
Another find on Twitter, illustrator Hannah Christenson (@Hannah_illo) has been posting a series of daily warm up gouache studies that are particularly nice!
______________________________________
Justin Oaksfords Ozymandias
Justin is a concept artist (most recently on Halo 5) and he was also one of the fine folks that I had the good fortune to travel through Iceland with last summer! Hes just recently completed a beautiful six page comic, Ozymandias (based on the Percy Shelley poem).
(While youre at it, you can also just take a look at Justins site!)
______________________________________
Anything good that I missed this month? Im sure that there is! Let me know in comments.
Available link for download