The Donut Project

Want a chance for people all over the country to see your work? Why not sign up for the 2011 Sketchbook Project?

A sketchbook is a place to put your heart and soul. Let it out into the wild; we’ll keep you connected. We know how precious a sketchbook is. You carry it with you everywhere, spending months working on it. It becomes a part of you. When you’re finished, share your hard work with the world. We’ll make sure you stay connected with your sketchbook as it tours the country and after we catalog it in The Brooklyn Art Library.

I don’t even know where to begin on how spectacular this project sounds (why did I not know about it before?!). 2011 will be the fifth time that Art House Co-op tackles the project and they’ve made sure to add a lot of new features (you can even track your book to see when and where it is being viewed!). As a participating artist, you will get your very own Moleskin Cahier sketchbook and a theme to use as a starting point to create your book. The books will then be put into a traveling exhibition around the country and later placed in a permanent collection at the Brooklyn Art Library.

Make sure to check out all the details on the Sketchbook Project’s site. You have until October 31, 2010 to sign up, and your finished book must be postmarked by January 15, 2011 to be included in the tour.

Thanks to my ever-curious and wonderful friend, Kara Solinsky for the heads up on this!

I’ve been doing my fair share of hand lettering lately, but the ease and speed at which Chris Piascik draws his letters is nothing short of amazing to me.

Practice, practice, practice.

Chris Sharron, who is a friend of the site, has launched a new website chock-full of his great illustration work. The body of work began with editorial cartoons for the Daily Kent Stater newspaper as a student, and has evolved into t-shirt design (with a few prints on Threadless), comics, and commissioned work for magazines.

Chris is only just now graduating this spring, and looks to have a bright future ahead of him. He just received the 2010 Charles M. Schulz Award for cartooning, which is a huge deal. If you’re looking to hire an illustrator, I’m sure he’d love to hear from you.

Shameless plug: Chris’s new site was designed by yours truly, and I sincerely hope you dig it. It’s minimal to let the great work do the talking.

Visit it at www.ChrisSharron.com.
And you should follow him on Twitter here.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Peter Schuyff’s carved bats and pencils are the perfect eye candy for a Wednesday. The rest of his carved work and portfolio can be seen here.

via notcot

J3’s ‘zine At Your Leasure is collection of things that have inspired them to create their own fantastic work. At Your Leasure to J3 is:

An exploration of ideas, images, concepts & colors. An homage to those that inspire and a desire to do the same. A visual train of thought. A celebration of individuals that live what they love.

Read more about the ‘zine’s philosophy and purchase it for only $10 here.

After taking a short helicopter ride over such cities as Tokyo, Rome, Dubai and London, Stephen Wiltshire is able to render incredibly detailed and perfectly scaled panoramic drawings of the city. Diagnosed with autism at age 3, Wiltshire has been drawing cityscapes since he was 8 years old. Last month he completed the NYC skyline and finished the last drawing in his series of panoramas. Visit Wiltshire’s site to see more of his incredible work!

(via a cup of jo)

So yeah – dead flies as art. Who knew a pencil sketch and some dead flies could be funny or creative? These are pretty off the wall but I couldn’t help but share them.

Created by Magnus Muhr
(Via Quipsologies)

This short film by C. Coy features Milton Glaser and his feelings on drawing. I could listen to Glaser talk for hours about pretty much anything.

(Via @formfiftyfive & @mikeyburton)

I would love to live in Charlotte Mann’s fantasy world. It’s amazing what she does with just a black marker and a blank wall! See more from her at charlottemann.co.uk.

The Hello Project is an online social collaboration giving people the chance to say hi, hello, or hola on one of today’s most common yet neglected canvases: the Post-it®.

How it works is simple. Take a regular 3×3 Post-it® and write/sketch/doodle your version of hello. Scan it, email it to hi [at] thehelloproject.com, and they’ll post it for everyone to see.

THP is a relatively new site run by friends of The Donut and doodle extraordinaires Kristen Caston & Joseph Delhommer. Go check out the creative solutions so far and contribute – it only takes a second. It’s a great creative exercise to break the monotony of your everyday design stuff. I have a few submissions on there myself :).

Check out the site: www.TheHelloProject.com
Follow them on Facebook and Twitter to see submissions when they are added.