In this piece I gave hermit crabs shelters that I had made for them, and if they liked my shelters, they made their shells in them.
(via Kottke)
Category: Art
Always meant to tidy this up. One day I will get around to do a full Luke & Wampa version of The Snowman. Oh well. Merry Christmas!
Some fun type based on a certain view of Mt Fuji.
The world of imagination is the world of eternity; it is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal.
William Blake, spotted in an article about D&D that’s worth a read. I’ve never played D&D but I really really want to. Years ago I picked up the 4e Player’s Handbook and it was a fun enough read but I didn’t take it any further. More recently I’ve caught up with Acquisitions Inc, watched a buttload of Tabletop and I’m the slightly excited owner of the 5e Player’s Handbook (and Monster Manual). I have nobody to play with but I’m holding out hope.
Talking of Blake there’s an exhibition of prints on at the Ashmolean this Winter to which I’m definitely paying a visit.
So this is just straight up great. If you don’t know Phil Noto you should seriously check him out, his Black Widow work is beautiful, as is pretty much everything he does.
And if producing this wasn’t brilliant(/sickening!) enough, he drew the black and white the day the trailer dropped. Within hours. As in he watched the trailer then just drew this (the colours followed the next day):
By Alex Ross (who is seriously amazing, if you haven’t already you should leave right now and read Kingdom Come, Justice, and Marvels)
Also Baldwin as Hyde? Genuinely scary. But Hornbergermain is clearly the best.