painting with computers: digital art

In our college days, computers were just coming into their own as essential art tools. The most in-depth classes we had were Intro to Mac and Web Design. Now there's a stunning range of techniques available for illustrators and animators, and we're teaching ourselves from scratch. Here are some of our favourite resources!

The Oatley Academy

Lief Peng's Today's Inspiration: vintage illustration heaven!

Vintage illustration is one of the most popular and imitated genres of illustration, but almost nothing is known about the men and women who created stunning work for endless magazines and agencies in the 50s and 60s. 

Lola Fielding

Leif Peng, himself an accomplished commercial artist, runs a well-researched blog called Today's Inspiration where he tracks down mid-century illustrators, gathering up every crumb of detail about their life and work, and making beautiful posts about them.

teasing teasers

This week's wonder | wonder | world feature and our first for 2016 is Mahala's art. 

Specifically a new project she's working on in collaboration with a writer friend and colleague. 

It's a fantasy graphic novel. Yes, it's a comic!