Artist Transforms Kids Drawings Into Plush Toys
Wendy Tsao brings kids drawings to life by transforming them into amazing plush toys. Wendy made her first toy (which she calls ‘softies’) back in 2007, based on a self-portrait her 4-year-old son...
View ArticleBeautiful Ballpoint Pen Drawings by Marite Desaine
Mārīte Desaine is an artist from Latvia. In the series below we explore the artist’s amazing ballpoint pen drawings. Each piece takes approximately 30 hours and the unmistakeable pen strokes create a...
View ArticleWhen She’s Not Drawing The Simpsons, Liz Climo Makes Funny Animal Comics
When Liz Climo isn’t busy drawing characters and storyboards for The Simpsons, she’s working on her own hilarious series of animal comics which you can find on her wildly popular Tumblr blog. After...
View ArticleClever Animal Comics by Shanghai Tango
Shanghai Tango is an artist and illustrator from China. In an ongoing series of comics and doodles, Tango’s simple and clever drawings ‘say it all’ without saying a word. You can find all of the...
View Article12 Clever Finger Doodles by Javier Perez
Javier Pérez (featured previously here and here) continues to delight with his simple and clever drawings. This time, Javier incorporates human hands and fingers into his doodles. To see more...
View ArticleDesigner Explains His Creative Process While Making a Logo for a Fictional...
Most logos aren’t designed in fifteen minutes, but most designers aren’t Aaron Draplin. Aaron’s a Portland fixture by way of the Midwest, the owner of Draplin Design Co., and an advocate of “blue...
View ArticleThe Amazing Moleskine Sketchbook of Kerby Rosanes
Philippines-based illustrator Kerby Rosanes works mainly with ordinary black pens to magically illustrate his “doodle” world. The 23-year old artist recently left his job as a graphic designer to...
View ArticleThe Style Transformation of David Bowie in One Glorious Gif
In celebration of David Bowie’s 68th birthday (8 January 1947), artist Helen Green created the glorious animated gif above to show the style icon’s transformations over the years. The gif is made up...
View Article21 Funny Illustrations by Glenn Jones
Glenn Jones (featured previously) is a graphic designer and illustrator from Auckland, New Zealand. Since 2008, the independent artist has been successfully creating and selling his t-shirt designs...
View ArticleThis Artist Uses Bananas as his Canvas
In an ongoing series of banana doodles, Dutch artist Stephan Brusche continues to find creative ways of turning bananas into works of art. The artist first began by doodling directly onto the...
View ArticleCanadians Pay Nimoy Tribute by Drawing Spock on $5 Bills
Even before his unfortunate passing last week, Leonard Nimoy has been receiving tributes by Canadian Trekkies in the form of currency doodles. Years ago someone noticed that with a few strokes of the...
View ArticleTim Jeffs Draws Incredibly Detailed Lizards Using Pencil Crayons
When it comes to art, Tim Jeffs loves three things: drawing, intricate detail and animals. The illustrator (featured previously) uses ink, pencil crayons and paint to bring his animal artworks to...
View ArticleThis Book from 1908 is Dedicated to Blackboard Art and it’s Amazing
In 1908, Frederick Whitney, an artist and teacher in Salem, Massachusetts published Blackboard Sketching, a book dedicated to the art of blackboard chalk drawings. As the book’s forward states:...
View ArticleBeautiful Illustrations of Words with No English Equivalent
Artist Marija Tiurina has illustrated a beautiful series of posters that visually describe words from other languages that do not have an English equivalent. The series was created exclusively for...
View ArticlePicture of the Day: Two Rolls of Tape and a Little Perspective
Artwork by Christoph Niemann Sunday Sketches is an ongoing series by artist and illustrator Christoph Niemann. Every week Niemann repurposes everyday objects in creative and playful ways. You can...
View Article16 Portuguese Sayings That Don’t Make Any Sense
Every language has common sayings that everyone knows and uses that don’t necessarily make sense, especially when translated into another language. Artist Mariana Crisóstomo aka Junkhead illustrated...
View ArticleArtist Beautifully Captures What Real Love Looks Like
Puuung is a South Korean artist whose incredible ongoing series “Love is…” has captivated her audience with touching illustrations about a young couple in love. For Puuung it’s not about the grand...
View ArticleThese Artists Challenged Each Other to a Daily ‘Animal Alphabet’ Drawing Duel
Inspired by sites like Type Fight, Kyson Dana and Jeffrey Smith challenged each other to a sketchbook duel, but rather than using graphic design and typography as their genre, they decided to take...
View ArticleHow Pixar Artists Made the Cars in ‘Cars’ Do Things Without Hands
In “McQueen has no hands”, Pixar artist Rob Gibbs recounts the time he had to draw a scene with the following direction: “McQueen produces a map”. The journey of how the artists arrived at what...
View ArticleThese Porcelain Plate Designs Actually Depict a World of Destruction
Artist Don Moyer has designed a series of porcelain plates that may look traditional, but a closer inspection reveals a world being ravaged by monsters, machines, pirates and aliens. The plates are...
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