No Plastic Seeves

I had a welcome break from my day job today (one of the absolutely maravalous things about not having a full time contract), and I began researching artist promo mailers. I came across the website NoPlasticSleeves, which is a site devoted to artist promotional materials. It is mainly photographer and designer based, however includes some great visuals and ideas that is presented in a much more appealing format than many other sites that will pop up if you do a search for such a topic.

They featured the artist Jesus Galiana's promo piece: Here is screen shot of part of his image.

He is an illustrator and hand typographer based out of Madrid. He has some really great hand-done typography and some pen work that makes me happy.
Check him out here:
http://j-galiana.com/tag/pen-drawing/

Webternet

I am currently in a big blog phase where I am checking out several new blogs a day, and finding many other illustration/creative websites that have caught my fancy. Many of them found in some form through illustration Friday illustrators, links or just the one-blog-led-to-another-blog kind of internet searching.

Here are some blogs this week that I didn't really have time to read in full, but some scans of what was posted made me want to investigate further:

http://sweetsweetlife.typepad.com/

http://giam.typepad.com/100_years_of_illustration/

http://www.illustrationmundo.com/wp/

http://undergroundartschool.typepad.com/underground-art-school/

http://goflyingtrtl.blogspot.com/
http://elsita.typepad.com/elsita/blank_book_experience/

And there are others, I may add to this list if I am able to remember the ones I forgot to bookmark. They're worth taking a gander at anyways.

Links Fixed

It came to my attention that a few of my links to the left were not entered properly. For that I apologize, they are now in working order.