August, 2015

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School Playground

Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

'School Playground' Watercolour & Gouache 66 x 50cm After working on other jobs and taking a week off to teach a summer school course, I have finally finished 'School Playground'. I'm pleased with the overall result but I do think I could have developed the relationship between the characters and first school further. Maybe by depicting a young animal going through the doorway or a few heads poking out of the windows?

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Keeping It Vintage With Shawn Khemsurov, Design Director Of Homage

Creative Live

The one thing all successful apparel brands have in common is a strong point of view, a unique perspective that informs every one of the many details that go into creating a garment: concept, silhouette, materials, graphics, presentation, and so forth. Few brands do a better job of articulating their point of view than Homage , largely driven by Design Director Shawn Khemsurov’s taste for design that’s a little odd, naive, and off-kilter.

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Field Notes & Faces - My Very Favourite Ohh Deer Sketchbooks

Emmeline Illustration

So you're probably all very aware of my serious love for stationery. I have at least 2.5 billion sketchbooks (rough estimate) and a skyscraper of notebooks (give or take) - they're just, something I need around me at all times. Maybe it's an occupational thing, but if I don't have a little sketchbook to jot down ideas or draw a few characters I feel a bit lost.

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ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 48

Illustration Art

This is a loose preliminary sketch by Bernie Fuchs for a coffee ad in the 1960s. Some people will be quick to note Fuchs employed photo reference in this picture: But that's not the part that interests me. I like the way his sketch reveals Fuchs probing for the design elements in his subjects. His handling of the elbow (below) displays knowledge of both the anatomy beneath the cloth and the design above the cloth.

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Let's Talk Trends: Designing for Maximum Impact

Speaker: Amber Asay, Creative Director and Founder of award-winning design studio Nice People

Understanding what trends are happening and how they’re impacting the competitive landscape is crucial to providing top dollar design strategy to your clients. With so many trends coming and going, it can be overwhelming to determine which ones you should capitalize on and which ones might not be worth the trouble. In this exclusive webinar with Amber Asay, we’ll explore graphic design trends that need to die, trends that are starting to pick up and why, trends that have come and gone, and how t

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No one on the Internet is living the life you think they are

Paul Jarvis

This is a good thing. Social media and really anything digital is setup to be a near-constant stream of editorialized data. That means, we pick which bits and bytes we share. In doing so, we’re only.

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Artist Appreciation Month

Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

August Is Artist Appreciation Month Recently, I was informed by the folks at Patience Brewster about a project called 'Artist Appreciation Month,' in which artists are invited to talk about an artist(s) who has inspired them to create. Patience is an artist as well and designs ornaments and unique gifts for Christmas and year round décor. I knew straight away this would be the perfect opportunity to share with you a FANTASTIC artist and hopefully shed light on my early days of struggling to find

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It's Afternoon Tea Week!

Emmeline Illustration

It's afternoon tea week! The loveliest of weeks. I'm celebrating it today with a brew in one hand, a paintbrush in the other and a cream doughnut on my place. Yessir.

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What Emmeline Wore In July - Full Collection!

Emmeline Illustration

So here it is, finally , the full collection of What Emmeline Wore In July illustrations (click here to see it in more detail)! It's been a busy month juggling this project with my other illustration work, but it's been so very worth it. I mentioned this in an earlier post, but it's surprisingly draining on your creativity being tied to create (and write about) illustrations every single day.