What Things Do is a new place for comics so far featuring the work of Ted May, Sammy Harkham and founder Jordan Crane. That is as solid of a line-up as you could ever want. Above is artwork by Jordan Crane and Sammy Harkham. What the future holds for What Things Do is unclear, but for now there are piles of comics to be read. Via Drawn.
Again, while on the subject of BUSINESS, you creative types out there may also find this Creative Business website informative. The Creative Business people have free forms that you can download as PDFs and print out to use for all sorts of the business aspects of your freelance life that probably make your head hurt. Many of them are good starting points for you to create your own materials from and some are good to use as is, such as the estimating worksheet, creative brief questionnaire and illustration questionnaire. Creative Business also has written several books on the subject of Creative Business running, and published a bunch of downloadable articles that they do charge nominal fees for. (Previously mentioned here).
I’m adding a new category to the Meatlog: Business. I love business. Every freelance illustrator, designer or cartoonist out there knows at least enough business stuff to get by, but can always stand to learn more. AND LOVE IT.
I read all kinds of cheesy, corporate-speak articles, magazines and books about business, organization and motivation. It is what it is, bros, I’ve shed my hang-ups and I’m feeling great. Now I can’t wait to read the latest issue of Entrepreneur to find out which franchise I should set up in my living room, Little Caesar’s or Subway?
Speaking of business, Alex Mathers illustrates stuff here (and the illustrations above), runs his own art blog here, and then writes this other blog called Red Lemon Club which focuses on online self-promotion for creative freelancer types. Some tips you might find handy.
Clients From Hell is a good read for your lunch break from graphic designing for clients from hell. It’s like reading the “Humor In A Uniform” jokes column in Reader’s Digest while sitting on your grandmother’s toilet. That’s not a perfect analogy. Also on Twitter.
I always tell students that they must sketch their ideas out before they jump onto the computer and begin farting around without direction. In artist Adam Batchelor’s case he of course already knows that and draws out his idea about the really big whale burger with the works before he sculpts it out of Super Sculpey. He also makes doughnuts and phallic dog worms to put through the doughnut holes over here.
Edit: And to clarify this post, Adam is not a student of mine, he is a student of life.
Alessandro Echevarria has a growing selection of drawings on his website that you can look at and sort of imagine the smell of deli meats very satisfyingly with because everything is sliced with a deli slicer and has a nice ham inside. Above are a few of his other drawings that feature cute critters that hug each other.
