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James Gurney has a blog! And a fourth Dinotopia book! What planet have I been living on?

Gurney’s blog is an excellent repository of news and information for artists, and as you will see, his vivid and meticulous painting style has only gotten better with time.

I especially like this little tip he recently posted, about finding a drawing subject that will sit still long enough for you to get some detail in.

Source: “Watching Television” at Gurney Journey, URL: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2009/04/watching-television.html (posted April 11th, 2009)

Wow-wow-wow. Check out illustrator and animator Joel Trussell’s new website out for some very cool retro style. I especially like his music videos.

Joel also has a blog (http://joeltrussell.blogspot.com/) where you can see what he’s been up to and working on. I’ve already subscribed to the feed. The links sidebar in his blog is a treasure trove of new artists to discover–I’ll get through them all one day!

Source: I first read about Joel on the Drawn! blog, URL: http://drawn.ca/2009/04/03/joel-trussells-new-site/ (posted April 3rd, 2009).

When I travelled to Japan in February 2006, one thing immediately struck me about the women in Tokyo (the non-Harajuku ones). Boy, did they know how to dress.

They reminded me of Parisian women, immaculate but not cold, feminine but not overtly sexy, a little old-fashioned but not definitely not old. I would have come home with a wardrobe full of clothes, if only the damn things had fit over my wide shoulders and ample bosom.

I didn’t have a camera with me at the time, but I can still remember looking wide-eyed at the women on the street and the department store mannequins, wondering, why, oh why didn’t we have anything like this in Australia? (Actually, I think we do, but you need an income of a gazillion dollars to dress like this here.)

Now I can show you what I mean. Have a look at the work of Seiko Ohmori (Ohmori is her surname), and her three-dimensional illustrations of women with angel faces and clothes you wish were yours. She makes them from polymer clay, then photographs and digitally manipulates them.

Sources: Seiko Ohmori’s website at http://se.batic2.com/. I first read about Ohmori in Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog at http://drawn.ca/2007/12/30/seiko-ohmori/ (posted December 30th, 2007).

Something I knocked up quickly for Illustration Friday.

When I saw this week’s theme, “detach”, all I could think of were cells dividing. This is a little homage to Gary Larson, but the scientific basis behind his cartoons is probably more sound.