Peanut
Peanut (aka Gaz Barnett) is a Visual Communications student at BIAD specialising in illustration and animation. He has a penchant for wresters (both Mexican and classic British) and Elvis. You can find his work on Flickr and MySpace.
Illustration
Tom Lewis
Popped into Jibbering Records today to get my Supersonic ticket and noticed they have new art on the walls from one Tom Lewis. Here’s one of the more abstract pieces: It feels a lot like meditation © Tom Lewis As well as paintings he also does a nice line in character illustration. This chap is … [Read more…]
Artpeeps
Artpeeps is a new group portfolio site for West Midlands illustrators and cartoonists who’ve come out of the Hi8us workshops. Fifteen artists are featured so far and you can track new additions to the site with this RSS feed. Here’s a piece by Amera Mussa, a Finnish illustrator based currently in Birmingham.
A Comic School?
Hi8tus are looking at the feasibility of setting up and running a Comic School cementing their work in supporting comic book illustration through the Stripsearch program. It’s worth emphasizing that this is at a very early stage – the tender for the feasibility study has only just gone out – but it’s worth noting as … [Read more…]
Morning After : Illustrative Art
Here’s the poster / flyer. and here’s what was in the accompanying Word doc.
Com-Motion
This summer Stripsearch, the project that seeks out and nurtures comic and graphic illustration talent in the West Midlands, is running a bunch of free professional illustration courses under the banner Com-Motion. Budding cartoonists aged 13 to 19 can create their own comic or animation with professionals including John McCrea, Hunt Emerson and The Brothers … [Read more…]
Ten4 Five
Issue 5 of Ten4 magazine, the creative industries publication produced in Birmingham, will be in the stores on Thursday. You can buy it from Borders or Virgin nationally or pick it up free at various outlets and bars in the city including the Custard Factory, Jibbering Records of Moseley and The IKON. Look for the … [Read more…]
Out of the Bedroom
Stripsearch, the ongoing project to identify and support comic strip illustration talent in the West Midlands run by Hi8us, is currently touring an exhibition of work produced at workshops run by John McCrea. Out Of The Bedroom is currently showing in the Custard Factory Reception on Gibb St from 9am-6pm until Feb 9th. The following … [Read more…]