Aeron over at Monster Brains has been posting one outstanding piece after another with a lot of artwork from individual fantasy/horror artists. The above is just a detail of a piece by Hannes Bok. Another post full of artwork by Virgil Finlay is a highlight.
Max Fiedler draws all kinds of things for work and for play and keeps a skizzenbuch from his travels, especially when he travels to the skizzenfestival. See more over here, and even more in the new GFTG!4, which Max also posted about here.
I am throwing in something special with the next load of GFTG!4 orders just for the hell of it. Know why? You are very special to me.
Tomer has posted a new call for entries poster for the Society of Illustrators over on Tropical Toxic with some process shots and further credits for the team effort. Dig those ribbons of color indicating power punches and movement! Tomer has more sketches in the new GO FOR THE GOLD! 4.
Uno Moralez draws fascinating and horrific drawings in under 256 colors. The above two pieces are cropped since pixel art doesn’t resize down very well. You can enjoy looking at the artwork on Uno’s website, livejournal, and tumblr. Be sure to click deep enough to feel the creepiness of his sequential work and this cool development work on his abandoned animation project.
GO FOR THE GOLD! 4 is here and ready to ship directly to the top of your toilet seat, which is where it stays very comfortably for weeks and weeks as you work your way through its 379 pages of artist’s sketchbook drawings, every page deserving of your attention. Click over to the buy page to read more about the book and the contributors whom have been slowly been posted about one at a time for the last few weeks and will continue to be posted about because there are so many.
YES! Mu has been selected to exhibit his work in solo shows in New York City and Taipei plus some other stuff. He was seleceted as the winner of 3rd Ward’s Summer Open Call. See his winning portfolio here. Here is his writing about his work:
“My work is about being the story – stories that had been passed down by our oral tradition. Some of them are passed down to praise the people who have the power above us, some of them are forced to be the truth, and some of them are told much earlier than it happened.
To me, there is no true story or fiction. Once a story is told, it all depends on the story teller and the audience. The most important part of storytelling is neither about narrating nor illustrating what happened, but becoming the story itself so we can go further into it until the story becomes a part of ourselves. Storytelling is not a mere entertainment. If we want to continue creating our false glories and history, we have to keep making up so many tales and they will eventually become facts.
As a painter, I work with a traditional narrative way to present my vision to people. I am actually being the images from my head when I am creating them. I want to tell stories whether they will be accepted or denied. This is going to be the story of myself.”
Mu also blogs here and has multiple spreads of intense drawing in the brand new GO FOR THE GOLD! 4 as well!
Devin Flynn provided funny spastic drawings and collage art for publication in GO FOR THE GOLD! 4. He also sent over some additional credits for some of the pages:
“tube doodles” is a collaboration with Leif Goldberg, “gimme that face” is with Ian Flynn, “shit” “craze itiot” and “footbaby” are excerpts from “Beirdo Fuddies” which is a jam comic-zine by Ian Flynn, Seth Cooper (zissy & Rita) and myself.
Thanks Devin, and above are two images from the book.
