Illustration Friday » IF news update http://illustrationfriday.com/blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:14:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 New Topic http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/2012/01/27/new-topic/ http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/2012/01/27/new-topic/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:06:41 +0000 admin http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/?p=3263 Hi all,

It looks like we’re still having some issues with our mailing list. Hopefully we’ll get it cleared up soon.

In any case, the new topic is “Forward” suggested by Becky Caldwell (http://www.becomingbeck.com/).

Happy drawing!

-penelope

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]]> http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/2012/01/27/new-topic/feed/ 0 Back and blue: IF Forum returns http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/2009/08/09/back-and-blue-if-forum-returns/ http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/2009/08/09/back-and-blue-if-forum-returns/#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:56:50 +0000 admin http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/?p=1802 We have no excuses for the extended outage. We do have an upgraded forum ready for your loquaciousness, and with all previous posts intact.

The forum is running a default bluish-kinda theme for a bit, while we construct a polished IFri look’n'feel for the new software version.

Your old username and password should work. Welcome back.

Discuss.

http://illustrationfriday.com/forum/

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She said “I’ve been able to see it in my head for awhile.”

I love bringing Penelope’s web visions to life!

So, the IF Forums are temporarily read-only while we move everything to the new software and get ready to unveil the new IF. You can definitely still post entries and suggest topics (this week’s topic is “Intricate“, which had only been suggested a few days ago – I got a thrill when I saw it in the list. This should be fun!) and the new site will have even better tools for showing your stuff.

Meanwhile, in daily acts of inspiration, this pic from Camilla Engman‘s Flickr has been up on my screen since it was posted. I want to reach through the monitor, beep their noses, and touch the shiniest button at the bottom:


circles

Originally uploaded by Camilla Engman

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]]> http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/2009/03/06/upgrades-and-inspiration/feed/ 0 Veda is here! http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/2009/02/14/veda-is-here/ http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/2009/02/14/veda-is-here/#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:07:55 +0000 admin http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/?p=1550 Penelope’s baby has arrived, and her husband Colin introduces us to little Veda over at Penelope’s blog. Congratulations, Penelope and Colin!!

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…but better than never.

If you’re using a Mac, you might like the quick and simple Illustration Friday Dashboard Widget the folks over at Utopian.net Labs whipped up as a bit of fun for IF’ers.

The Illustration Friday widget will keep you posted on each week’s exhibition, showing the 30 most recent entries hot off the IFri presses, with links to each author’s own post of their image, and of course ways to click on to the main IFri site.

You can grab the Mac-only widget right here. (We’ll do versions for iGoogle and possibly for Vista, should demand arise.)

To install the Illustration Friday Mac Dashboard Widget:

  1. Download the zipped widget file: ifridashbd.zip (252KB)
  2. Double-click the ifridashbd.zip file saved on your computer (if you’re using Safari, step #2 may be done for you automatically)
  3. Double-click the “Illustration Friday” dashboard widget icon that is expanded from the zip file to install it in your dashboard.


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The formatting of WordPress posts and pages is courtesy of a slightly-modified version of the excellent WP-PDA plugin. We’ll be making our changes available to the author and to the community as we work the bugs out. Stay tuned for more developments on this and more mobile-friendly interaction around the entire Illustration Friday site.

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]]> http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/2009/01/30/community-powered/feed/ 0 Happy 4th Anniversary, IF! http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/2008/12/02/happy-4th-anniversary-if/ http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/2008/12/02/happy-4th-anniversary-if/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:44:21 +0000 brianna http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/?p=1485   Four years ago this week Penny and I flipped the switch on Illustration Friday’s very own site, and here we are today! Thank you, P, for the most fun I’ve ever had writing code. :)

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Artful Blogging, a magazine by Stampington&Company, interviewed me about Illustration Friday for their Spring 08 issue! This magazine is chock full of good things to inspire, so pick up a copy if you see one. :)

The interview features quite a few IF participants including:

Anita Mejia

Jeremy Holmes

Liz Fulgham

Timothy Tsun

Adam Levine

Karin Uusikorpi

Mike R. Baker

Nancy Bea Miller

Diana Koehne

Irisz Agocs

Ben Hatke

Maria Grupp

and Amy Stadelmann

Yay guys!

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]]> http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/2008/04/05/if-article-in-artful-blogging-magazine/feed/ 6 The Illustration Friday Group Show at Open http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/2007/11/06/the-illustration-friday-group-show-at-open/ http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/2007/11/06/the-illustration-friday-group-show-at-open/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:00:20 +0000 brianna http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/?p=612 The first ever Illustration Friday show was amazing. I was sure I’d be able to blog it as it happened – hanging the art, setting up the stage, the creation and presentation of 150 cupcakes, meeting the artists. I have no idea why I thought that, because I ended up being so busy with preparations that I barely sat down from Friday until midnight on Saturday. It was so much fun.

Sé and I stayed up very late getting the art placed within the gallery. Unpacking all the artwork (25 boxes!!) was like an early Christmas – we ooh’ed and ahh’ed over prints and held things up across the room yelling “What do you think? Is it crooked?”. Every single artist participated, and I am just incredibly awed and proud of everyone – we gave you a tight deadline and you all met it with room to spare, and gave us a wealth of beautiful, professional work to display.

I’ve put up a few photos at Flickr, and I’ll confess that I was having such a good time talking to the artists that I only took pictures as the night was winding to a close. But the show is hanging at Open (map) until January 20th, so you have plenty of time to see it for yourself!!

Front Gallery

Open II

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