Carlton Hibbert's Illustration blog 2.0: June 2006

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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Higher and higher

Here's my latest image created for the cover of Linux Format mag. I really must get around to posting more of my own illustrations! You can see more of my work in my portfolio section...

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Thursday, June 15, 2006

This is no laughing matter

Apparently losing your head is art at the Royal Academy. So, next time you send an artwork there, please remember to include instructions plus a photo of the completed sculpture.

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Saturday, June 10, 2006

Elly Walton

This site of Elly Walton's work is very exhilarating, full of fun and a wicked sense of humour - always something that I love in an illustrators work.

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Rooster Iglehart sent me an email to see if I would like his work. I most certainly do. Have a nose around his site and enjoy the wonderfully dark and quirky linework he produces. This Elvis Costello caricature is my favourite. Though I'm not sure I'm a big fan of scrolly-scrolly horizontal image galleries!

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The Fantastic in Art and Fiction

Cornell University has put together a visual library entitled, "The Fantastic in Art and Fiction". There are some amazing images contained in this collection, not least this cheerful chappy on the right...

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Sunday, June 04, 2006

Dreams of flying

Here's an absolutely stunning set of photos: jan von holleben - dreams of flying. I've seen this sort of thing done before but never with such a sense of fun.
Via Pixelsurgeon.

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Thursday, June 01, 2006

Rob Gonsalves

Here's an artist I'll have to investigate further. I've always been a bit of a sucker for images that bend the eyes perception of what is real. As a teenager I was very into Dali and Escher - they appealed to my analytical mind, even if they are very popular mainstream artists. Saper Galleries shows an awful lot of his work and from my quick Google exploration so do a lot of other sites (like here and here). I might have to check out his book to get a better look at his craftsmanship.

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GoLive and Freehand, the end is nearer?

According to Arstechnica, Adobe are doing what everybody expected them to do. That is, they are not going to develop GoLive or Freehand any longer. They won't be totally abandoning them however, so existing users shouldn't worry too much. I'm just glad I work mainly in Illustrator, I always found the Freehand interface a bit awkward.
I've dabbled with Coreldraw in the past because it had certain tools I wanted to try, but hated every moment. Has anyone got any experience with Microsofts new app, Expression?

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