Steph Thirion presents the results of Game Mod: a 6-hour workshop in Elisava, Barcelona where graphic design students (with little to no programming experience) created unique modifications of the classic video game Breakout using Processing.

Game Mod was a six hour long workshop with the objective of showing the participants that it is not required to understand code to experiment and play with it.

Although they had no experience in coding, the task of each participant was to make a mod (modified version) of a game built in Processing.

Book By Its Cover is a blog created by New York illustrator and pattern designer Julia Rothman to share some of her favorite books.

One of the coolest features on this great blog is the weekly Sketchbook Series: every Friday, Julia posts images from the sketchbooks of some of her favorite artists. In reverse chronological order, the series has featured:

Carmen Segovia
Anders Nilsen
Julie Morstad
Luke Ramsey
Jill Bliss
Jen Corace

Enjoy the sketchbook Series, but be sure take a look at all of the posts on Book By Its Cover to appreciate some really great illustrations and beautifully made books.

Dave Roman, comics artist and Assistant Editor for Nickelodeon Magazine, has published his Advice for building a career as a freelance artist
and/or paid cartoonist.

Via Drawn!

VectorMagic is the name of a new online application from Stanford that will vector-ize your bitmap images, and output the results as a EPS, SVG, or PNG. It’s free, easy to use, and works surprisingly well - give it a shot!

The Superest is “a continually running game of My Team, Your Team. The rules are simple: Player 1 draws a character with a power. Player 2 then draws a character whose power cancels the power of that previous character. Repeat.” Check out the one-upmanship of Kevin Cornell and Matthew Sutter’s daily drawings today!

Throughout the month of May, in the fourth year of our international MFA travels, A&D first-year grad students will be working in Japan. Read all about their adventures on レシートおねがいします.

Tom Richmond’s Digital Color Tutorial

MAD Magazine’s Tom Richmond offers up another juicy tutorial, this time on digital colouring: Part One, Part Two, Part Three. Pro users may not learn too much, but Tom’s nothing if not incredibly in-depth. He covers every detail of his colouring process no matter how seemingly inconsequential, never assuming anything of the reader. This makes it a great resource for students or those just learning the ins and outs of Photoshop. The tutorial covers everything from scanning the art right down to the last little highlight.

Via DRAWN.

A while back, comic book artist Sam Hiti drew some tough-looking drawings and posted one on his site. He then asked his readers to send in their contributions - drawings that they thought could take on Sam’s own drawings in a battle royale. Now, he has launched FIST-A-CUFFS, where readers can vote weekly on whose drawing reigns supreme - and the winner will be awarded a totally great cardboard championship belt!

Come out swingin’!

Via DRAWN.

On November 19th, art director and graphic designer Stefan G. Bucher started the Daily Monster project: every day for 100 days, he posted a YouTube video of the creation of a new monster drawing. We’re a little slow around these parts, so we’re catching this during the very last week of Monsters - but better late than never, right? We recommend that you start at Daily Monster #001 and work your way forward.

Via the Core77 Design Blog.

Specific Things is a website that features found photo collections and story submissions on specific topics… for example:

Young women holding koalas? Check!
People dancing with glowsticks? Check!
One man eating sushi? Check!
Raffle winners? Check!

Great idea! And they’re also looking for submissions, so find those images of TP’d houses and people who have had pies thrown at them.

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Via: VideoSift

Timelapse painting video by a Tokyo art collective, Rinpa Eshidan. The video is titled “1 week of art works” and shows a wall being painted and re-painted over the course of 7 days. It has been viewed over 1 million times since being promoted to the front page of Youtube (following its appearance on Videosift).

Rinpa Eshidan is a group whose members include Daisuke Yamamoto, the director of this video. “Eshidan” is an archaic Japanese word meaning “painters group”. “Rinpa” includes the Japanese character for “circle”. Yamamoto writes: “rinpa is ‘circle’ style. it’s a group that values the connections between people. the members are big fans of hip-hop and art. they get together once every two months to perform at clubs.”

Links via Neatorama.

Amazing handmade typography by Dutch art student Job Wouters is on display in this YouTube video - click the image below to view.

80 of 500 handdrawn typographic posters by Job Wouters are shown in a 3 minute filmclip by Roel Wouters. The posters promote the students final works at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.

YouTube link

Via Kottke.

The Charles Saatchi Gallery, famous for launching the careers of many young contemporary artists, just launched STUART (short for Students’ Art): a free website that lets young artists showcase their creations.

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Swedish design group FRONT Design have developed a technique called Sketch Furniture that lets them create furniture based on sketches and gestures in thin air.

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Mark B. Ledenbach’s collection of vintage Halloween memorabilia is so good, it’s scary - Check out Halloween Collector for all the gory details!

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