Le Sketch

Le Sketch #09: Matthew Thurber

Paulo Patrício — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:00:52 +0000

In the ninth issue of Le Sketch, cartoonist and illustrator Matthew Thurber presents an array of 14 sketches featuring electric demigods, esoteric scribbles, smiling cats and dogs and allegorical creatures that would happily eat you up in a blink. All printed in red carnelian and a spanky purple!

About Matthew: he grew up on Lummi Island off the coast of Washington State. His fist comic, published age 12 was Killer Pigs: Target USA. He moved to New York in 1996 and has lived there ever since. He publishes the comic book series 1-800-MICE. His work has appeared in Kramers Ergot, The Ganzfeld, and many other anthologies – and he also contributes with comics to Vice Magazine. He performs occasionally as Ambergris.

Check out more of Matthew’s work in his website!

Le Sketch #08: Winners List

Paulo Patrício — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:26:25 +0000

Here’s the list of who won one of 10 copies of Le Sketch #08 signed by Scott Morse. After the first name initial, last name, place and country, we also publish the day and time when the e-mail dropped in our mailbox. Our email was sent November, 20, around 10:45 GMT.

F. Santos – Freamunde, Portugal [20/11/09 @ 11:13]
J. Sachs – Paris, France [20/11/09 @ 11:13]
N. Fisteus – Sta. Maria da Feira, Portugal [20/11/09 @ 11:02]
R. Balaji – Pleasanton, US [20/11/09 @ 11:01]
F. Portal – Pleasanton, US [20/11/09 @ 10:59]
J. Klemencic – Ljubljana, Slovenia [20/11/09 @ 10:59]
L. Lolmède – Paris, France [20/11/09 @ 10:58]
A. Muto – Los Angeles, US [20/11/09 @ 10:58]
J. Kellner – Berlin, Germany [20/11/09 @ 10:56]
T. Kristiansen – Gentofte, Denmark [20/11/09 @ 10:54]

To all the others: good luck for next time!

Le Sketch #08: Scott Morse

Paulo Patrício — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:51:17 +0000

In this eight issue of Le Sketch, cartoonist Scott Morse presents a series of 14 sketches taken from his personal sketchbooks featuring random strangers in San Francisco and Disneyland. You will find plenty of tourists wandering leisurely around, seniors sleeping in chairs or just looking at nature in amazement.

About Scott: a full-time father and storyteller currently working in comics and animation. His award-winning comics work includes the books Soulwind, Magic Pickle, Plastic Man, The Barefoot Serpent, Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!, and Notes Over Yonder. He currently works for Pixar in story and design, with credits including Ratatouille and Wall*E.

You can see more of his work in here!

Le Sketch is available for free here.

Le Sketch #07: Winners List

Paulo Patrício — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:29:49 +0000

Here is the list of 10 winners who won a free copy of Le Sketch #07 signed by Craig Atkinson. After the first name initial, last name, place and country, we also publish the day and time when the e-mail dropped in our mailbox. Our email was sent June, 18, around 10:00 GMT.

E. Kidd – Fairlight, Australia [18/06/09 @ 11:16]
L. Masselink – Amsterdam, Netherlands [18/06/09 @ 10:38]
C. Le Doux – Maastricht, Netherlands [18/06/09 @ 10:33]
J. Klemencic – Sentvid, Slovenia [18/06/09 @ 10:19]
J. Ágreda – Seville, Spain [18/06/09 @ 10:16]
S. Derman – San Francisco, USA [18/06/09 @ 10:13]
J. Fechner – Karlsruhe, Germany [18/06/09 @ 10:11)
S. Rodrigues - Caparica, Portugal [18/06/09 @ 10:09)
A. Jahn - Köln, Germany [18/06/09 @ 10:07]
A. Smith – East Sussex, UK [18/06/09 @ 10:06]

To all the others: don’t forget to sign our mailing list and good luck for next time!

Le Sketch #07: Craig Atkinson

Paulo Patrício — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:22:57 +0000

In the seventh issue of Le Sketch, british illustrator Craig Atkinson give us sketches of people that might exist, but probably don’t, mysterious diagrams, imaginary buildings and several collages – one of them with a girl who is looking for christian singles with christian principles and another with a Hitlerian mustache that spreads like the plague. All presented in navy blue and bright yellow!

About Craig: works as an artist and lecturer. His illustrations have been featured in exhibitions and graced the pages of The New York Times and Esquire, among others. He founded Café Royal in 2006, a publishing house and shop specializing in zines and artists’ publications. His work is fairly spontaneous and often made without too much immediate thought. However underlying themes are present: The everyday. Banality. Celebrity gossip. Terrorism. Broken things. Lies. Stories about things that haven’t happened, but could have. Tales of real places he has never visited.

More of Craig’s work can be seen in his website. Make sure you visit Café Royal for zines and other publications.

Le Sketch is available for free in here.

Note: Craig Atkinson has an exhibition titled Invasion | Invasão at Dama Aflita Gallery, Porto, Portugal. It runs until the middle of June 2009, so make sure you don’t miss it.

Go Read It: Waste Not!

Paulo Patrício — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:37:50 +0000

Just a quick post to say that today there’s a article over at Forbiddenplanet.co.uk, by their continental correspondent Wim Lockefeer, about Le Sketch. Read it, share it!

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Doodle Bug

Paulo Patrício — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:26:37 +0000

Our [always-late] weekly link round-up…

Doodle Bug
Browse others or create your own doodle. Awesome!

The Bearskinrug Sketchbook
The online sketchbook of Kevin Cornell. Nice interface design.

Zenvironments – Sketches
Zach Johnsen’s “quickies, doodles, ideas, rough drafts, play, and other such marks on paper and surfaces”.

30 Creative Examples of the Hand Drawn Style in Web Designs
Not all are good examples, but it’s nice to see hand-drawn elements, such as sketches, in web design.

Tadahiro Uesugi – Illustration
Browse the extensive illustration galleries and make sure you don’t miss Tadahiro’s movies.

Sketchbooks: The Hidden Art of Designers, Illustrators and Creatives
Go buy it!

Chuck Jones Sketchbook

Paulo Patrício — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:45:13 +0000

We skipped a couple of Friday morning link round-ups, but for a good reason: we were working in QuotesOnComics.com. Which is exactly what its name says it is, a site with random quotes on comics, some hilarious, some dead serious, others thought-provoking, but all stimulating and thoroughly inspirational. Go, bookmark it, subscribe to the RSS feed and spread the link!

And now, back our link round-up…

Discovered Chuck Jones Sketchbook Pages
Craig Kausen blogs some of his grandfather’s sketches. Wonderful.

****Spam****
New blog alert: Nicolas Mahler’s illustrated spam emails!

Ea’s Artblog
Daily sketches of Ea, from Denmark.

Bomomo
Web-based drawing app with randomly generated colors.

Artpad.art.com
More from the same.

The Doodlebook
Doodles!

Cartoon America – CheckList of Objects
Impressive. Check out Rollin Kirby’s Vandal in Victory, Vandal in Defeat and William Steig’s indian snake charmer.

DoodleBuzz

Paulo Patrício — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:35:46 +0000

Our Friday morning link round-up.

DoodleBuzz
Doodle and read the news!

An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks…
Sketchbooks of illustrators, designers and artists from around the world.

Á Blog
Sketches of spanish illustrator José Luis Agreda, a good friend of ours.

Mattias Inks
Blog of Mattias Adolfsson, freelance Illustrator living in Sweden.

Seattle Sketcher
Gabi Campanario’s graphic journal.

The Center
Lots of awesome things happening in CSS.

Guillermo Del Toro’s Sketchbook
It’s been online for a while, but it’s new to us. Useful intro, lousy sound.

Draw Like a Monkey

Paulo Patrício — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:33:44 +0000

Our first Friday morning link round-up.

Stef’s Sketches
Sketches made with Brushes, an iPhone application. Don’t miss the videos!

How does an Etch-a-Sketch work?
We all played with one, and this is how they actually work.

Uchronie.net
Pascal Tessier’s beautiful sketches and drawings.

Send Us Your Shelf Porn!
Matt Madden, our consulting editor!, and Jessica Abel show their massive comics collection.

Draw Like a Monkey
For those who love watching illustrators and cartoonists draw.

Metropolis of Tomorrow
Ferris “never designed a single noteworthy building”. A classic.