The above film was produced by Fly on the Wall for Discovery Channel, South Africa. It is the combined artwork of Bryan Devlin, Luis Tolosana, Warren Lewis, Ree Treweek, Daniel Ting Chong, Mike Morocco, Toyah Moon Humphreys, Paul Ressel and Josh Ginsburg.
It's a must see at the 40 second-mark, when it goes form controlled doodles to paint chaos -- simply beautiful.
It reads: A giant beast is doing his best to horrify a sleeping man. The man is convinced that he is having again a nightmare, that the beast is in his head. The beast gets really pissed.
The book 99 Fears by Nedko Solakov captures 99 real and imagined worries, some personal, some completely absurd. Solakov couples every doodle with a few scribbled sentences. Every page looks like it was torn right out of his sketchbook. It's simple and thoughtful and will make you think.
Gabi Campanario has found a way for us all to travel the world, one drawing at a time, and I am addicted to it. Urban Sketchers is a group of artists that draw the people and places of the cities they live and travel to. The community is made up of so many different artists and styles, all categorized by city and country. Put your passports away and click here.
Olivia Jeffries, from the UK, mostly works on surfaces that have already had a purpose (like old record labels, book covers, photos, paper that have already been scribbled on). The aged surfaces give her purposely-unfinished drawings a perfectly finished quality to them. They are delicate and simple and a treat to look at.
ELBOW-TOE is the mad scientist of street art. His work is eclectic and ever evolving with content grounded in myth, symbolism and poetry.
I have always been fascinated by the direction of his art in the public spaces of Brooklyn and was therefore happy to learn that he carries a sketchbook with him on the subways of New York city.
For this awesome feature, we have 17 spreads from ELBOW-TOE's own book, all done flawlessly with a red felt pen. See for yourself »
An artist collective rooted in everything we (here at DA) live by. The group believes in, respects, and harnesses the raw power of spontaneous ideas and captures them in different mediums, on paper, on plastic, on walls, on your bare ass–you name it and they’ll draw on it. Give them a blank room and they'll charge in with multi-colored markers blazing!
Yesterday we launched a Doodlers Anonymous group over at Flickr to act as an extension of this site. Anyone can participate by joining flickr and adding your own doodles, drawings and sketches (just be sure to keep it non-digital). We've also added a little widget to the right column of the blog that pulls 6 random images from the group. Join today and help build the community (we've already got an amazing 146 members).
There's something to be said about the sentiment behind a quickly drawn note, which is the exact concept behind Tiny Notions. Lisa Przybylski does (almost) daily post-it drawings for no reason at all. If I found any of her drawings lying around my desk at work, it'd pretty much make my day.
Nate Frizzell discusses the process of going from a sketch to a painting with The Captain and His Crew piece and the need to sometimes step away from something long enough to find the right solution. We've all gone from spontaneity to hitting a creative wall. Open your sketchbook, visit an old doodle, and add something new to it today.