Lemon Pencil

City of Craft 2008

For those of you into crafts and everything handmade, City of Craft, an annual craft fair, is happening Saturday December 13th at the The Theatre Centre in Toronto, ON. Check out the site for more information.

Book Autopsies

Brian Dettmer created “book autopsies.” They’re pretty creative!

Art with Pencils

Jennifer Maestre creates art out of pencil… in a different way. Here are a couple of her 3D forms made from several pencils.

Carpentry Art

Pixel Art: Underneath the Earth??

What is underneath the earth? I came across this cool pixel art site:

Check it out here!

Ginette’s Cats

Ginette La Palme’s cute child-like cats and very strange random cats… Check out her portfolio at her website! They’re quite colorful

Random Drawings & Comics

chriskuzma.com is an illustration and comics portfolio site. There are random drawings along with very strange comics (there’s a link on the homepage).

Lynda Barry

This weekend I had the privilege of seeing cartoonist, Lynda Barry, speak at the International Festival of Authors at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. Lynda spoke about her latest book, “What It Is”, which discusses the process of creative writing and making great stories.
 

The book consists of tidbits of Lynda’s early artistic experiences, alongside chapters of hard-to-answer questions that force the reader to think outside the box. The book may be inspiring to anyone who wants to make comics, narrative art or any type of creative art.

Jillian Tamaki

Jillian Tamaki is a Canadian-born illustrator based in Brooklyn, NY. Jillian has won countless awards for her editorial work. Her clients include NYTimes, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and The Walrus, just to name a few. Earlier this year released a graphic novel called, “Skim” with her cousin Mariko Tamaki, who wrote the novel. 

 

Team Macho

Team Macho, a Toronto based group collaborative (of fine art and illustration) by Lauchie Reid, Chris Buchan, Nicholas Aoki, Jacob Whibley, and Stephen Appleby-Barr. Their stuff is pretty wacky and random. Here’s a couple of their works: