Author: cparker
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Gilles Tréhin (update)
In 2006 I wrote about autistic savant Gilles Tréhin and Urville, a large and fantastically detailed city that he has been creating in mind since the age of 12, and shares with us by way of hundreds of intricate drawings. I recently learned that shortly after I wrote that post, Tréhin’s English language book about…
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A Vermeer Comes to California
There are painters, there are painter’s painters and then there’s Vermeer. Ever since I became entranced on seeing his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York when I was younger, I’ve thought of Vermeer as less like other painters and more like an alchemist of light, an artistic sorcerer whose works transcend…
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Early Star Wars Storyboards
Nearly all movies these days, an certainly all movies that involve animation or special effects, are plotted out visually beforehand using storyboards; a comic strip like series of drawings, often done simply in markers, showing the basic on screen composition and sequences of action. There is a nice Flickr set of early storyboards from the…
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Analog Photoshop Interface
As a long time Photoshop user, I just love this version of the Photoshop interface as represented by real-world objects. It’s a poster for software-asli.com, the creative credits are: creative director : Hendra Lesmono, art director : Andreas Junus & Irawandhani Kamarga, copywriter : Darrick Subrata and photgrapher : Anton Ismael. The mock up is…
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Erwin Madrid
Erwin Madrid is a concept artist for the entertainment industry, currently based in San Francisco, where he earned his BFA at the Academy of Art College. He has worked for PDI/Dreamworks Animation on films like Shrek 2, Shrek the Third and the Madagascar sequel. He has also done concept art for the gaming industry for…
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Langridge Re-imagines Spongebob
Roger Langridge, the brilliantly off-kilter UK cartoonist that I wrote about back in 2006, recently posted to his blog some comics that were done for Nickelodeon Magazine, in which he draws on his fondness for the great classics of newspaper comics to re-cast Sponegbob Squarepants in the mold of Winsor McCay’s and Little Nemo in…