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News: A New Journey with an Old Soul
Time for a new path to take me into a spiritual -Inspiration of my New Journey...Forward
Font-Face: Design a Typeface with Your Mug
If you've ever used a font editing program to create a font, you know that one generally shapes the various forms by arranging points on a screen with a mouse. But what if those points were controlled by something other than fine motor skills? Andy Clymer of high profile type foundry Hoefler & Frere-Jones was interested in exploring alternative methods for how a typeface is developed; hence, "font-face" was born. Font-face employs facial recognition to control the design parameters of a font....
Enter to Win: The Secret Tips from the Yumiverse DIY Contest
If you have yet to check out the Secret Tips from the Universe DIY Contest, now's the time! The clock is ticking—you only have until Sunday, 11:59 p.m. to enter for a chance to win original artwork by Yumi.
Gossip Illustrated: Anna "Devil" Wintour Smeared With Ink and Wit
Illustrator Lisa Hanawalt innovates the typical gossip rag by rendering wicked rumors of Devil Wears Prada villain Anna Wintour as clever cartoon drawings. Though akin to political cartoons, the result is more US Magazine (if US was prettier to look at). As usual, Wintour is depicted as soulless (and to think, she supposedly bedded Bob Marley!).
News: The Evolution of the Batmobile
Sometimes ads are good for something. Such as documenting every single batmobile EVER, and publishing as a massive infographic. Comic book nerds, rejoice:
News: There Is a (Creepy) Baby in Every One of Us
"There Is a Baby in Every One of Us", artist Ben Heine titles the first image in the collection below, taken from the latest in his pencil vs. camera series:
News: It's On Like Holiday Kong
Happy Holidays from everyone at WonderHowTo! Have a wonderful Christmas, and an amazing New Year.
News: Free! Drawing Lessons From the New York Times
Drawing is a craft that becomes art when combined with an idea. It is a skill that comes naturally to some; for others it is a slower, more painful process. But the truth is, anybody with patience and discipline can learn to draw. Learn the principles of line, perspective, proportion and structure, and practice!
Illusion Revealed: The Moiré Mind Trip
Beautiful textile illusion by artist Timur Si-Qin! How Does it Work?
News: World's Largest Artwork Stretches 9 Square Miles in the Heart of Icy Siberia
Artist Jim Denevan works on a massive scale. He's "painted" the northern beaches of California, and etched away at the Nevada desert.
News: Get Your Portrait Drawn in 1 Minute or Less
Melbourne-based graphic designer Benjamin Hammond just launched a site called One Minute Portraits, where the artist draws quick portraits in less than a minute. It works like this: email a photo of yourself, Hammond creates the portrait, and you can choose to buy the original if you like it. (OR pick up a few drawing lessons and do-it-yourself.)
News: Pencil + Camera Mashup
Drawing is a popular here at Wonderhowto, as is photography. Put the two together and...voila, enter Ben Heine.
News: "Star Wars Fridays" in the Office, Please
Casual Fridays is so yesterday. Ignore the pretentiously relaxed dotcom dress code. Mock the jean-clad Wall Street bankers racing to grab a seat on the Hampton Jitney. Let's return Friday to a proper dress code. It's time to honor the greatness of George Lucas.
News: Suburbanite Turns Lawnmower Into Automated Art Machine
Jeremy Wood has turned the normally mundane task of lawn mowing into an art process. For the past nine years, Wood kept his mother's yard perfectly manicured, tracking every single motorized lawnmower ride with a GPS, and then converting the data into "maps".
News: R-Rated Golden Books (For Adults Only)
Pixar animation artist Josh Cooley presents a series of drawings based on R-Rated movies in the style of G-Rated Golden Books (you remember, the children's books your parents probably read to you as a kid). Keep an eye on Cooley - his book, Movies R Fun, should be coming out later this year.
News: Nope, This Is NOT a Black and White Photograph
Paul Lung requires nothing but a 0.5 mm technical graphite pencil, plus one sheet of A2 paper to create a nearly perfectly hand drawn facsimile of a photograph. The 38-year-old graphic designer of Hong Kong spends up to 60 hours on each labor intensive drawing.
News: Spooky Disembodied Lips, Tongues, and Spit Bubbles
Artist Julia Randall's photorealistic colored pencil drawings of disembodied lips, tongues, and spit bubbles kinda give me the creeps (in a perfectly good way, of course).
News: Demented Kids Drawings Brought to Life... Somewhat Chilling
Wow, kids and their wild imaginations... Monster Engine is a gallery of kids drawings copied by painter Dave Devries. The project began in 1998, when Devries posed the simple question: What would a child's drawing look like if it were painted realistically?
News: Flawless Replica of Famous Masterpiece Drawn With a Single Bic Pen
The iconic Girl With a Pearl Earring, by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, is widely considered one of art history's most seminal paintings. Artist James Mylne spent 90 hours copying the image, using just one Bic Cristal pen. Kudos. That shading took some serious skill (and patience).
News: Meticulously Hand Drawn Photorealistic Hair-Art
Amazing series of charcoal/graphite drawings and oil paintings by Hong Chun Zhang. "Twin Spirits are large charcoal hair drawings, self-portraits of my twin sister and me. I use long hair to exaggerate our major characteristic and as a metaphor to reveal something that is beyond the hair. These drawings are presented as scroll paintings in order to accentuate the length of the piece and the flow of long hair..."
News: Corporate Design Gets Freddy Krueger Makeover
Jacques Pense is the designer behind this amazing award-winning stationery for 13th Street, a German horror network. Total and utter carnage. The punch hole impalings are truly awesome.
News: Mouse Point Tracker Art
Interesting collection of works by designer Anatoly Zenkov. Zenkov's Flickr set shows several images created by "using a simple java applet to track his mouse while working, black circles are pointer stops (not clicks)".
News: Draw With Fire
Tobias Kipp and Timo Pitkämö have taken the art of pyrography into the streets. The two German artists practice street portraiture with an unusual twist. Swapping a pencil or paintbrush for a sparkler, they draw portraits with fire in the amount of time it takes the sparkler to burn (84 seconds).
News: Freehand Circle Drawing World Champion
Wait for it, wait for it... it happens really fast... at right about 1:05. Okay, maybe he's not a world champion, but a very cool party trick nonetheless. Here's one way to do it (not quite as perfect as our world champion above):
News: Pyro-Spirograph-Drawings
Rosemarie Fiore is badass. She makes art with pyrotechnics, amusement park rides, Atari, guns, and pinball machines. Though all of her work is cool, I have to say my favorite piece is Fiore's larger than life spirograph, made from an amusement park ride, entitled "Good Time Mix Machine".
News: Artist With Waaay Too Much Time and Money, Paints Pointless Optical Illusion
Artist Felice Varini has been playing with the art of illusion since 1979. This piece takes on the incredible scale of an entire Swiss village.
News: Deadly Funny Fly Art
At WonderHowTo we've drowned and revived a fly, we've flown fly-powered aircrafts, and now we are inspired to make our own Dead-Fly-Art.
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