Embroidered Illustrations by Ann Khokhlova
It’s amazing how much depth the texture of the embroidery floss adds to the surface of these enigmatic illustrations by Ann Khokhlova.
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Ceramic Sculptures Made To Look Like Pen Drawings
These stunning ceramic sculptures that look like illustrations come to life are the work of artist Katharine Morling.
Maker Faire Center Stage — Illustrated!
A few weeks before Maker Faire, we got a call from Nora Herting, founder of ImageThink, a company that provides live “graphic facilitation” services to conferences and meetings. Nora loves Maker Faire and she offered up a wonderful gift from her company: the time of two great illustrators, Heather Willems and Lloyd Dangle (you might […]
Kokblog – Illustrated Recipe Blog
Food and drawing … It’s a beautiful combination. Johanna Kindvall, of Sweden and New York City, keeps a recipe blog called Kokblog, where she includes a drawing with each recipe. I like how free form it is. Sometimes it’s a drawing of the finished dish, or one ingredient. But other times it might be a […]
Shout Out to Charley Harper: One With the Birds
I was drawing birds this weekend and thought I’d give a shout out to American illustrator Charley Harper (1922-2007). Harper is best known for his highly stylized nature drawings, full of elegant geometry and bold portions of color that capture the remarkable personalities of so many feathered friends. When asked to describe his visual style, […]
Illustrated Recipes
A couple weeks ago, I started drawing each meal I eat before I eat it. It’s really enjoyable to flip through the days, seeing what fueled me each day. I was telling my friend about this practice, and she asked if I had ever visited the site Recipe Look. I hadn’t … but I’m so […]
Illustration process
Dan is an illustrator, and shares some information on how he creates his images in a few posts on his blog: These pencil sketches mark the initial step for all my illustrations where text and concept are distilled into a visual expression. Once I settle on sketches I think work the pencil roughs are scanned […]
