Reddit is a wonderful place. I only recently discovered Reddit and even more recently than that I realised that you can search out specific words and phrases on it. I typed the word ‘macabre’ into Reddit’s search box and discovered the bizarre and frightening childrens’ book artwork of post WWII Tokyo based artist, Gōjin Ishihara!
From The Illustrated Book Of Japanese Monsters (1972):
The next two illustrations are from The Illustrated Book Of Hell (1975):
From The Complete Book Of Demons (1974):
Gorgon. The Illustrated Book Of World Monsters (1973):
Aliens In Ancient Japan. From the book, Mysteries Of The World (1970):
From Sonosheet Book (1972):
Prehistoric Man (1970):
Spy Wars…
The World’s biggest glutton from The World’s Greatest Wonders (1971):
Precognition of plane crash. Mysteries Of The Body (1973):
Nostradamus. Psychics Of The World (1974):
Frozen planet. Year X: End Of The World (1975):
Dark star gravity. Year X: End Of The World (1975):
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Looky here at what I found!
Pixar storyboard Artist Josh Cooley has released a children’s book (Well, sort of) entitled “Movies R Fun” which illustrates the more memorable scenes of some of the greatest films ever made!
Mr. Cooley was the storyboard artist on Pixar’s “Brave”, “Cars”, “The Incredibles” and probably my favourite, “UP” and he runs a blog which you can view by clicking HERE.
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Whenever I get an illustration commission I occasionally get asked to provide ‘idea sketches’ to show what the finished piece will look like. This type of request usually results in me turning down a lot of artwork job offers because I almost never ever produce any ‘idea’ sketches and if I do, they never really resemble the eventual illustration and I tear them up just as soon as I’m finished with them. Besides, I think that sample and ‘idea’ sketches could subliminally put someone off of your work.
Is that crazy and paranoid?
If it’s not crazy and paranoid it’s probably arrogant of me but I’d rather turn down an illustration job than waste my time churning out sample sketches just to please someone who doesn’t have the faith in me to just let me get on with things.
That said, sometimes I do produce ‘working’ sketches for my horror comic-strip to help me place where characters and objects will be in the panels and today I’m going to break my own rule and show them to you.
All of these working sketches come from the “Please Give Blood” installment from my comic-strip, Al Cook’s “Necropolis” and as you will see, these were never meant to be seen…
* Working Sketch:
* Eventual Illustration Panel:
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* Working Sketch #1:
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* Working Sketch #3:
* Working SKetch #4:
* Eventual Illustration Panel:
I decided to upload these scribbles because aside from my own, I like to see work in progress. Be it a building being built or a half finished song, I’m interested and so I hope those sketches were of some interest to you.
You can view “Please Give Blood” in full HERE.
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Got kids?
Why don’t you take a day off from plastering photos of their spaghetti smeared faces on Facebook, sit them down and show them this:
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