As I reported back in 2011, Italian illustrator and comics artist Massimo Carnevale has for some time been posting to his blog, Sketches’natched, a series of his interpretations of various movies (and occasionally tv series).

These are apparently done for fun, and it’s fascinating how he pics elements from the movies that, while characteristic of them, are not necessarily what you might expect. He often zeros in on incidental and otherwise unimportant scenes, though most are, in essence, portraits.

Carnevale renders them with a wonderfully breezy style, utilizing the economy of painted notation to which digital painting lends itself.

On Carnevale’s blog, you must flip back through the archive one image at a time. For a quicker overview, see his portfolio on CGHub, and some places in which others have collected and posted some of the images in a group, like this post on imgur (via Metafilter), and this one on theCHIVE.

See my previous post on Massimo Carnevale for more information and additional links to examples of his work.

Mike Bear is a concept artist, illustrator and comics artist. His clients include Rockstar Games, Hasbro, Devil’s Due Publishing, Royal Elastics, Lolapps, Inc., Popcap, and EA.

Bear’s sketchblog includes some examples of his professional work but more often works in progress, personal flights of fancy, sketches, life drawings, and other graphic meanderings — a visual grab bag that includes lots of fun stuff.

Bear also has another blog, Techno Vikings, devoted to a personal project, and contributes to the group blogs, Pop Sketch and The Plein Air Cheaters. In addition, he has a gallery on deviantART.

[Via Neatorama]

Jake Parker (no relation to your correspondent) is an illustrator, comics artist and visual development artist based in Utah.

His visual development credits include work on Rio, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Horton Hears a Who and Titan A.E.

He is familiar to many as the author and artist of the Missile Mouse all ages comics. He work has also been featured in collections like Flight Comics and Nuthin’ But Mech.

Parker has a nicely adaptive range of style approaches — simple when appropriate, more rendered when needed —s that suit his various projects well. On his website you can find a portfolio of his work in character design, comics, children’s picture books and visual development.

His blog includes informal sketches, preliminary versions and works in progress as well as finished pieces not in the portfolio. You can also find additional images and original art in his Store.

The Art of Illustration is a 7 minute video feature that includes a (very) brief history of illustration from moderator Steve Guarnaccia, and short interviews with illustrators and comics artists Yuko Shimizu, Sean Murphy and Molly Crabapple (above, top to bottom).

It is one episode of the continuing PBS web video series Off Book (also here).

[Suggestion courtesy of Gregory Frost]

In the left hand column of this blog, about halfway down, under the long lists of categories and the longer list of archives, is a list of links under the heading “Relevant Blogs”.

This has long been ignored, both unduly so by myself, and perhaps rightly so by those who have clicked on many of the links only to find they were out of date, broken or otherwise less than useful.

In response to a little recent pestering by a couple of readers (to whom my thanks go out for bringing it up into my field of attention), I squeezed out some time over the past few weeks to weed out the dead links, blogs that have not been updated for a year or more and less interesting destinations that were left over from years ago when the pickings were slimmer.

I’ve also included a number of fresh new destinations, to which I will continue to add.

The list is divided into generalized categories of blogs (which I may also eventually refine a bit) that hopefully make it a little easier to browse.

It may not look like much — it’s just a list of links — but as I’ve tried to demonstrate with a few examples above, there are treasures to be found.

Images above, from the blog list categories:

“Art, Painting & Sketch”: John Macdonald Aiken from Underpaintings and Ivan Generalic from Art Inconnu

“Painting a Day”: Duane Keiser

“Other Painting Blogs”: Hans Versfelt

“Illustration”: William J Aylward from 100 Years of Illustration and Design

“Sci-Fi & Fantasy”: Bob Eggleton

“Comics & Cartoons”: Kazu Kibuishi

“Animation & Concept”: Jacob Stålhammar from Animation Blog and Peggy Chung from Concept Art World

“Paleo & Scientific”: Elanor Kish from Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs

“Tools & Techniques”: Mark Hess from The Tools Artists Use

Considering that many of these blogs are in themselves both extensive resources and jumping off points for even more great sources of art, I’ll issue my Major Timesink Warning should you choose to jump down any or all of these rabbit holes.

Enjoy.

Nicolas Delort, a freelance illustrator based in Paris, creates wonderfully textural pen & ink (on scratchboard) illustrations that take inspiration from greats like Franklin Booth and Gustav Doré — with perhaps a bit of Joseph Clement Coll and Virgil Finlay thrown in for good measure.

Delort’s website is essentially just a placeholder at the moment, but his blog is active, as is this Tumblog, and he has just been added to the artists represented by Shannon Associates artists representatives (more here).

Delort has a piece in the As Above So Below group exhibition at Floating World Comics in Portland, OR from February 7 to February 28, 2013. The exhibit is based on a challenge posed by Quenched Consciousness Tumblog (my post here) in which participants reinterpret a panel from Moebius & Jororowsky’s The Incal (above, second from bottom).

There is an interview with Delort on Open Lab Artists.

[Via Irene Gallo]

Back in 2010 I reported on They Draw and Cook, a project in which illustrators and other artists contribute recipes in the form of illustrations.

In something of a variation on that idea, food site Saveur has been running Recipe Comix, a series in which they have asked a number of comics artists to contribute recipes in the form of comic strips.

The index page shows an excerpt from each strip anda capsule description fo the recipe. ClLick through for the full feature in each case.

(Strip excerpts above: Laura Park, Joe Ollman, Jillian Tamaki, Lisa Hanawalt, Frank Gibson and Becky Dreistadt, Ryan North, Gordon McAlpin, Lucy Knisley)

[Via MetaFilter]

Roger Langridge is a comics artist living in the UK. He has several stylistic approaches, all of them idiosyncratic, all of them wonderful.

His styles show influences from early 20th century newspaper comics artists like Cliff Sterrett, Billy DeBeck and Frank Willard to more modern artists like Will Elder, various suspects from 2000A.D, and other divers sources.

Since I first wrote about Langridge back in 2006, he has increased the amount of material available on his website, The Hotel Fred to include more examples of his comics, both those devoted to his own characters like the titular Fred the Clown and Mugwhump the Great, to his unique take on other characters like Doctor Who and The Muppett Show.

Langridge is taking on the writing duties on IDW’s new Popeye series. Langridge knows his early 20th century comics, and I’m happy to say he’s bringing a sensibility from the original E.C Segar strips to the series. Most people don’t realize that the original Popeye was more of a cartoonish and wildly imaginative adventure serial than an episodic slapstick comedy (though the Fleischer Studios animated cartoons, which were somewhere in between, were wonderful).

The other good news is that Langridge has promised to update the blog-like home page of his site more often with drawings, works in progress and other goodies.

The site also features links to lots of his available published work, and there is an Amazon page (U.S. store, go here for U.K.) where you can find many of them as well.