My friend, Miguel, collects drawings of The Bride (Uma Thurman’s character in Kill Bill). I added a page to the series a few years ago and I feel vaguely competitive now whenever he gets excited about a new piece. This weekend, he showed me this contribution by Jim Rugg. I was blown away. I promptly [...]

  
Happy valentines to you! A plate by Cornelia Odonovan to celebrate. Her work is lovely and expressive: website - flickr - blog 

I’m surfin’ around illustration websites and noticing an awful lot of beards these days!  Pencil Robot has some great editorial and children’s illustration, found via Scamp.

whitney houstin said it best: “learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.”
so, in honor of valentine’s day, the Portrait Party will celebrate the greatest love of all with an entire month of self-portrait parties. draw yourself. share the results. self-portraits will be posted until midnight on february 29th.
(feel free to share your [...]

kerstin klein (portrayed above by several of her portrait partners) is the winner of the portrait party scavenger hunt. kerstin was the runner-up in the first portrait party contest but, with an actual factual portrait party, she sniped the scavenger hunt from jennifer m. lee. visit the december archive to see what i mean.

I like the fun, fun work of illustrator Lesley Withrow! From patterns to greeting cards to children’s illustration she really has some amazing stuff. Do yourself a favor and poke around her blog.

s. britt gots himself a blog.

the first portrait party contest went so well. i’m excited to offer another one.
i will trade portraits with whoever wins the following portrait party scavenger hunt.
contestants must complete a portrait swap with the following subjects:
a parent
a child
a sibling
a significant other
an old friend
a peer
a teacher
a hero
a stranger
an enemy
click HERE for the details.