BilbliOdyssey recently featured a rather unique children’s book in which a rocket blasts through each scene.
My favorite one:
You can actually see and hear the story in a video book on Youtube.
Tag: illustration
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I recently came across Sketchbook Jack while searching for various holiday character illustrations.
I really enjoy his rendition of Scrooge and the ghosts:
Check out Jacob Marley!
I wish I had been aware of this work in time for Halloween so I could have featured these snazzy greeting cards (sold at the Jack and Till Etsy store).
Sketchbook Jack’s professional resume is quite impressive. And you can see more illustrations here.
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Behold, the Castle Grayskull igloo!
SourceI vaguely remember this special…
Aww…look at this little gentleman from Handmade Stuffs:
A little metallic minimalism:
And for those who don’t want minimalism, a giant ball of Christmas pudding:
Absolutely no comment here. This blog is a family establishment.
Hey…Santa isn’t supposed to be a rugged lumber jack! If this version of our beloved St. Nicholas showed up at my house, I’d give him yard work to do.
If Santa were a Shih Tzu:
And this one appears to have had a run-in with some pepper spray.
He sees you when you’re sleeping…
Now for some beautiful sweets, a gingerbread typewriter:
If anyone has either of these musical gems, please share!
On the other hand, please do NOT send me this album. Oh Scott Weiland…why? I gave STP quite a few spins in my adolescence, but Weiland’s crooning on this album makes me sad, uncomfortable, and a bit embarrassed for him. Go ahead and listen to some samples if you want to see why this is what the bad children should get for Christmas.
Speaking of sad, it looks like this Santa was just released from the burn unit:
One of a series of Christmas illustrations by Graham Wilson (he does some great Christmas/Halloween mashups too).
Proportion? Never heard of it. Santa is magical. He can do what he wants.
A decoration for the Trekkies!
Kitteh refuses to be your holiday prop (I love the hand on the left, presumably going to help…a little too late).
This X-ray tree by Nick Veasey (whom I could have sworn I posted about before, but is not turning up in my searches) would make a wonderful holiday card.
Or if you prefer a glow in the dark variety:
We’ll finish with this amazing Harold Lloyd Christmas tree, recently posted by my friends at Unusual Life.
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As long as we’re on the subject of books today, Monster Brains has posted some very unique illustrations from the Belgian Christmas book The Wonderful Journey Of A Christmas Tree dated 1943 by author Joseph C. Boon.
I’m so curious about the rest of this book…has anyone seen it?
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Here’s one on my wish list: The Twelve Terrors of Christmas
, written by John Updike and illustrated by Edward Gorey.
On Amazon: The Twelve Terrors of Christmas
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Richard A. Kirk is one of those artists with such a rich, interesting body of work that it’s exceedingly difficult to choose a few images to feature here.
Such lush detail in these delightful, morphing chimeras…
See more on the artist website.
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Suspicious Anatomy just took a flying leap to the top of my book wish list.
This project arose from the combined efforts of writer Wythe Marschall and multimedia artist Ethan Gould (of the Hollow Earth Society).
After staring at a Cognitive Neuroscience textbook continually over the past few months, I immediately became enraptured with Gould’s illustrations.
From the Suspicious Anatomy website:
In the tradition of John Hodgman, David Cronenberg, and H. P. Lovecraft, The Human Cranius explores an alternative anatomy at once mesmerizing and deeply unsettling. Gould and Marschall ask: What do we know about our own bodies? The answer: Very little…
Suspicious Anatomy does not purport to represent or speak on behalf of anything; it seeks rupture with discourses. Or should we say, with the discourses that it, in some ways, reminds us of. Because Suspicious Anatomy is not a discourse, and cannot prove anything. It is pure Surrealism—the mutilation, combination, and recombination of discourses (or, at the molecular level, of images and words associated with those discourses) towards the Impossible Discourse: The (Unconscious) Mind. Or, in our case…? The Unconscious Body?
Click on the images for a slightly larger view and be sure to examine the details and read to the absolutely brilliant labeling.
I have, at times, been known to invent body parts, but could never be quite so adept at illustrating them. I cannot wait to get my hands on this and lose myself in the “physio–psychomological quandaries” of the Shadow Self made flesh.
See more illustrations from the book here.
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50 Watts featured this curious children’s book, written in Hebrew. It is…The Biography of a Hamster.
I happen to think hamsters are adorable. I had half a dozen of them at different times during childhood (who now grace the soil, deep in my backyard). This book is quite unique in its illustrative style. Dare I say…slightly dark.
Looking at the collection of pages made me wish I could actually read the text.
Look at THIS one!
See the rest here.
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Pumpkinrot pointed me to the Halloween collection of sketches, paintings and sculpture from children’s book artist Rhode Montijo.
I love this image:
Bat wallpaper…always a plus.
See more here.
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Classic toy…mildly menacing…
The glowing soul of an industrial plant…
One of those days.
Fire retardant shorts? Not doing a very good job, it seems.
Take THAT, Lady Gaga…you’re not the first to dress in meat.
And here we have the inspiration for The Human Centipede; the worst sculpture in the known universe.
Awesome.
I give you heart shaped whale anatomy…for future use on your handmade valentines.
Welcoming, indeed.
And I leave you with this sage advice:
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