Contemporary Character Design and Art

"Enter the playground" ... these words beckon at Pictoplasma's friendly, colorful and interactive "Colour Me! Playground", where one can scribble and doodle the day away (after signing up).

Once you get past all the "Enter" screens, the friendly CMYK colors greet you with their uber-modern cheer, and sound effects make the drawing experience all the more... well, colorful.

My Favorite Design Magazine

My favorite design magazine, hands down, is a slick, glossy-paged, paper one... For a couple of years now, I've subscribed to Communication Arts. They entertain me with their fresh ideas (or rather, the fresh ideas of contributors). My precious mag is delivered but only once every two weeks... perfect for me, as I have trouble focussing on the more than one task at a time in my otherwise busy life. Heaven forbid that I should have to eat up more incoming content than I'm able to digest! I love the faint smell of the ink on the pages, when I first open the package (yes, it arrives packaged, like a gift), and relish the time I spend with it on my couch.

Fodder for later.

Keep Your Creativity Flowing

Do you suffer from creative boredom? Do I? Well, sometimes. Are ideas slow to come to you? The can be to me, at times.

Well I found a resource full of ideas at the designer mag, How Magazine's web site. It's chock full of creativity exercises... Creative exercises are not only for artists, but they're just good for the soul--any soul--in my opinion. If you are a CEO or an accountant, or the coach of a hockey team, you also need to "think outside the box" at times, here's your chance to re-engage in the "ideas world". Now go to it, and save the world from drudgery!

Prankster Art

An elaborate illusion: these guys spent time (and probably money) to paint the picture of a piece of paper on the wall, so as to fool their buddy into thinking it was a real piece of paper. They sandblasted the wall to make it look real... and by all accounts, they succeeded in their mission. Check out this crazy video of two guys' artwork prank.