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dog-end by definition: 1. the end part of a cigarette that is thrown away 2. the last and least interesting and useful part of something

[master-painters]

Franz Sedlacek - Ghosts on a Tree - 1933

[jonathanbogart]

A selection from a series of cartoons by German cartoonist Emerich Huber advertising Odeon and Parlophon record players and records that ran in the back of Berlin-based arts-and-satire magazine Ulk in 1929 and 1930.

Huber’s proto-ligne claire style (he sometimes anticipates Ted Benoît in the 1980s), frequent bird’s-eye staging, and flair for detail make these some of the best ads of the era, and the insight they provide into the social and emotional uses of the period’s phonograph culture (though naturally exaggerated and caricatured) is still, for me, endlessly fruitful.

The racial caricature endemic to the era’s cartooning, and particularly to any suggestion of exoticism, colonial modernism, or jazz, shows up here too, though I left out some of the more egregious examples. There are 43 cartoons total in the series; I might reprint and annotate them in my zine, if anyone’s into that.

[barrydeutsch]

These are spectacularly drawn. I’d love to see some higher res copies of these.

[inonibird]

Eclipse

[dogend]

Lovely microbiological paper art by Rogan Brown. (via @TerriDrawsStuff)

[fluxushaus-deactivated20200426]

engineer Karen Leadlay working on the analog computers in the space division of General Dynamics, 1964.

[dogend]

Ani Inomata knows how to dress up a crustacean.  There’s a great video here of a hermit crab strutting it’s stuff on the strand.

[postingwhileblack]

Damn, this is so good

[dogend]

Kazuaki Horitomo’s Monmon Cats. (via Alex de Campi)

[ca-tsuka]

Teaser poster and artworks from upcoming “Wolfwalkers” movie by Tomm Moore (Secret of Kells, Song of the sea) at Cartoon Saloon studio.

[joethejohnston]

Building a Scene: It’s over isn’t it?

For Pearl’s song “It’s Over isn’t it?” the scene is about Pearl accepting a loss. As the series has progressed, she’s learned that she isn’t always right, and that there are things about herself that she’s has to reevaluate. This all comes to a sort of climax in this scene where she accepts and admits out loud that her relationship with Rose was never as deep and complete as she wanted it to be or told herself it was. This is where she’s left at the end of the scene, feeling lost and out of place.

In the outline written by Ben Levine and Matt Burnett, this is how the scene looked:

You’ll notice a lot of things ended up changing compared to the final version. Most of that was due to time constraints. When we started storyboarding the episode, all of the rough demos of the songs were recorded so that we had an idea of the amount of time we had between each song (which ended up not being very much). The result was that we had to basically be transitioning constantly between songs, but doing it in a way that felt natural and as gentle as possible.

In addition, Rebecca remembered a part from the 1982 movie “Victor Victoria” starring Julie Andrews that she wanted to use as reference for the feeling of the scene:

Right away we latched onto this spinning 360 degree camera move. I loved the energy and focus it gave to the character and I immediately roughed out a version with Pearl.

If you’re ever stuck during a scene this is what you do: Don’t start from the beginning, find the moment you see clearest in your mind and build out from there. From these rough thumbnails I built the rest of the scene outward. I brought back motifs like her sword skills and her dance style to help evoke the past events of the series, and I tried to give as much time as I could to each shot and make her acting as expressive a possible.

Below are my rough boards set to Rebecca’s demo. At the end, i added a pause for when she throws the Rose into the air. It felt like a good spot for things to crescendo ring out. Deedee Magno Hall’s rendering of this blew us all away when we heard it.

From there clean up was pretty much straight forward. The scene didn’t change much except for tweaking her acting here and there. I’m super proud of how this scene turned out, hats off to Nick DeMayo our animation director and to the team at Sunimin in Korea where they draw the entire episode on paper:

[baruyon]

I’m told I can post my variant cover illustration for BOOM! Studios’ Over the Garden Wall #1, so here it is. :) I really hope you like it!

[postcardsfromspace]

Oh, DAMN. I kinda want to embroider this for real.

[alexdecampi]

The wonderful folks at @imagecomics have put together a HUGE package of graphic novels at @humblebundle to benefit the @hrcgear. Included in the books is the first NO MERCY trade by me and @carlaspeedmcneil and @nonsequential. Pony up $20 (or more, if you feel like it) and get ALL THE COMICS for a great cause: http://www.humblebundle.com/books

[dogend]

Like the lady says, great deal for a great cause!

[art-tension]

Photographer Alice Smeets Teams Up With Haitian Artists to Transform Tarot Cards Into Real Scenes

Fateful visions from traditional tarot cards literally come alive in the streets of Haiti in Alice Smeets’ photographic recreation of a full deck, the Ghetto Tarot. For the photo series, the Belgian photographer collaborated with the Haitian artist corps Atis Rezistans (resistant artists), staging tableaus to reinterpret the early 20th century Rider-Waite tarot deck. To honor the diverse talents of her subjects, Smeets scatters the artists’ work throughout the scenes as props and backgrounds.

In creating the Ghetto Tarot, the photographer took the chance to continue her photographic work in Haiti, for which she was awarded the Unicef Photo of the Year Award in 2008 whilst pursuing her fascination with the spiritual world. “For a long time, I have wanted to interpret the tarot deck with my photos,” explains Smeets on the project’s Indiegogo page, “but taking ordinary pictures of the scenes seemed too simple. My aim was to create a very personal deck without losing the different spirits of the cards.” Source: thecreatorsproject 

PS

This publication has been posted on my other blog: b-l-a-c-k-o-r-c-h-i-d (Miss Asphyxia Art).

However, I have to do it again on the main blog: ARTENSION, because now, everything is published here.

Thank you to make the reblog even if you have already done on b-l-a-c-k-o-r-c-h-i-d. I stick especially to this post, thank you to be interested in it.

[feitclub]

I will always love the art (or in this case, photography) of tarot cards.

[onlyeasy-deactivated20190322]

Constellation print and map kimonos

[tanuki-kimono]

*History major heavy breathing*

[kimonodrome]

amazing

[bzedan]

I think zaflikescreepydolls might dig these.

[diversityinya]

The Prince and the Dressmaker

[dogend]

We’re very excited to share with you some sneak peek art from Jen Wang’s new graphic novel, The Prince and the Dressmaker, out with First Second Books in 2017!

More here!

[mudron]

I happened to pick up a book about my favorite Japanese print artist last year - just a few days after seeing the fantastic Studio Ghibli documentary The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness - and so a bit of a mashup of the two was the natural result.

Pre-orders for prints are available here.

[mudron]

Reblogging this since shipments of the first round of orders are going out now. Orders for the second round of Miyazaki orders (shipping next week!) close this Monday, after which I may shut down print orders altogether for a while so I can relax and work on new art.

[nonsequential]

40% off everything in the Dicebox store this weekend

[dogend]

nonsequential:

As it’s my birthday this weekend I’ve decided to celebrate by having a sale on all things Dicebox starting right now! Just enter the coupon code 40FLAGDAY15 at checkout and you’ll receive 40% off everything (save shipping).

Plus, the first 15 domestic book orders get a free sketch! (International book orders get that by default to help sooth the sting of shipping cost)

Note: I’m only releasing a small number of hard cover editions for the sale, so once they are marked as sold out, that’s it for the sale. In fact, I reckon I won’t offer them at discount ever again.

Feel free to spread the word! Sale ends June 15th at 1am PDT.

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Just cross-pollinating!