Favorite Sites
This list is ongoing, so please check periodically and enjoy. These sites are chosen because they might change, in even a small way, how you look at life.
Books
An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers
Drawing Made Easy (with Selections from Practical Drawing)
Fonts
YourFonts
MyFonts
A great resource for everything typographic. You can search for fonts from any typehouse, upload an image of a font you have found and have it identified, try out fonts before you buy them, and see hot new designs as they come out.
Illustration
Illustration Mundo
A place where illustration gets all the love. A group blog for illustrators that anyone can join.
http://www.illustrationmundo.com/
Illustration Friday
Illustration Friday is a weekly illustration challenge. A topic is posted every Friday and then participants have all week to come up with their own interpretation.
http://illustrationfriday.com/index_p.php
Drawn! The Illustration & Cartooning Blog
A collaborative weblog for illustrators, artists, cartoonists, and anyone who likes to draw. http://drawn.ca/
Drawing Day
Drawing Day, usually the first Saturday in June, is a worldwide drawing event encouraging everyone to drop everything and draw for the sake of art and post it in their gallery.
http://www.drawingday.org/index.php
Illustrators
James Gurney
This daily weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney. One of the best resources on anything to do with drawing, sketching, plein-air painting, and classic illustration.
http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/
Tim O'Brien
Tim puts stages of work in progress on his blog. Speaks for itself.
http://www.drawger.com/tonka/
See the Neda Painting here.
Photography
World Pinhole Photography Day
Anyone, anywhere in the world, who makes a pinhole photograph on the last Sunday in April, can scan it and upload it to this website where it will become part of the annual Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day celebration's online gallery.
The image above, by Gary Beaton in Luxembourg, was taken at random from the WPD gallery for 2009.
http://www.pinholeday.org/
by Danny Gregory
Excepts from the illustrated journals of 50 illustrators, artists, and designers. This book is always on my coffee table.
by E. G. Lutz
This classic drawing instruction manual, originally published in 1921, taughtcountless children and young adults how to draw, and is now back in print after many years absence. The concepts, outlined here are simple enough for children to understand and yet the same principles are evident in many Old Master drawings. If drawing was a religion, then Lutz would be one of it's prophets.
Fonts
YourFonts
Create a real high quality font from your own handwriting in a few minutes for free.
MyFonts
A great resource for everything typographic. You can search for fonts from any typehouse, upload an image of a font you have found and have it identified, try out fonts before you buy them, and see hot new designs as they come out.
Illustration
Illustration Mundo
A place where illustration gets all the love. A group blog for illustrators that anyone can join.
http://www.illustrationmundo.com/
Illustration Friday
Illustration Friday is a weekly illustration challenge. A topic is posted every Friday and then participants have all week to come up with their own interpretation.
http://illustrationfriday.com/index_p.php
Drawn! The Illustration & Cartooning Blog
A collaborative weblog for illustrators, artists, cartoonists, and anyone who likes to draw. http://drawn.ca/
Drawing Day
Drawing Day, usually the first Saturday in June, is a worldwide drawing event encouraging everyone to drop everything and draw for the sake of art and post it in their gallery.
http://www.drawingday.org/index.php
Illustrators
James Gurney
This daily weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney. One of the best resources on anything to do with drawing, sketching, plein-air painting, and classic illustration.
http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/
Tim puts stages of work in progress on his blog. Speaks for itself.
http://www.drawger.com/tonka/
See the Neda Painting here.
Photography
Anyone, anywhere in the world, who makes a pinhole photograph on the last Sunday in April, can scan it and upload it to this website where it will become part of the annual Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day celebration's online gallery.
The image above, by Gary Beaton in Luxembourg, was taken at random from the WPD gallery for 2009.
http://www.pinholeday.org/
Thinking
Mind Maps
What is a mind map? You already know, you just didn't have a name for it, until now.
Some applications of Mind Mapping include: Making Choices, Organizing Your Own Ideas, Organizing Other Peoples Ideas, Memory, Creative Thinking, The Group Mind Map, Self-Analysis, Problem-Solving, The Mind Map Diary, Family Study and Story Telling, Educational Thinking, Teaching, Business and Professional Meetings, Presentations, ...
You can add more, I'm sure. Create yours free at: http://www.mindmeister.com
Some applications of Mind Mapping include: Making Choices, Organizing Your Own Ideas, Organizing Other Peoples Ideas, Memory, Creative Thinking, The Group Mind Map, Self-Analysis, Problem-Solving, The Mind Map Diary, Family Study and Story Telling, Educational Thinking, Teaching, Business and Professional Meetings, Presentations, ...
You can add more, I'm sure. Create yours free at: http://www.mindmeister.com
Web
Web Search for humans
There is definitely an overabundance of useless information on the Web, and a growing need to find relevant information without having to sort through the chaff. This fact is driving a trend towards "invitation only" sites.
PeakDirectory.com is a simple resource site that organizes its links, hand-picked by their staff, to some of the Web's best resources from their list of its most searched topics. By avoiding automatic submissions and robot searches, they are able to control the content and provide links to only the highest quality sites.
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