A sketchbook experiment with casein and pencil. The image originated from a New York Times T Magazine article entitled "São Paulo’s Concrete Jungle." Click on it to view the sketch even larger than its original size of 6.5" x 8.5".
Here's a page from a comic I'm working on at the moment about two brothers growing up in Serbia during WWII. Don't hold your breath though- it might be a wee while before it finds way out into the paper world. A serbian newspaper called "Vesti" found out about the way my Serbian heritage has shaped my work and featured an article about me last week. The only problem is, I cant read it because I can't read or write Serbian- doh.
Another illo for the Publisher's Weekly "Soapbox" column. This installment was a funny editorial was written by Mike Reiss, who has been a writer for The Simpsons for nineteen years. In an effort to reach kids with a different message than he does on TV, Mike has published eight children's books, and enjoys the freedom of being the sole storyteller. But he doesn't do it for the money:
"To earn what I make as a TV writer, I'd have to publish a children's book every four hours."
Money isn't everything though...but Homer Simpson has weighed in on this:
“Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like...love!”Comments (0) - Link to this post
There's been a growing number of creepy incidents at Walt Disney World. People have been smuggling in their loved ones' remains and sprinkling the ashes on their favorite rides. It's actually become a big problem. I've been enjoying taking more pics with my cell phone. This one is from a television ad for the theme park.
Yesterday I started creating my own letter type...till now, I only created from "A" to "F" but I also intent to create the numbers and symbols like "! @ # $", somethings like this...
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Selected pages from an old sketchbook. Click on each to view an entire image.
More new framed work for sale at my online shop. This here print illustrates a slavic female weather demon "Ala"- bad tempered monsters whose main purpose is to destroy crops. They are rumoured to eat children which they would gobble up with huge wooden spoons! A given ala may look like a black wind, a gigantic creature of indistinct form, an old lady or a bird like a raven or a crow. Eagles, however, are regarded as defenders against Ale, chasing them away from fields and thus preventing them from bringing hail clouds overhead. A 9.25"x9.25"" high quality laser print on 200gsm card presented in a white wooden frame (11.5"x11.5"x0.5"), signed and numbered on back of print, a limited edition of Ten prints... only $15.00. C'mon over and see if there's any other prints that tickle your fancy...
This is a photo of a Ndebele traditional healer from the National Archives of Zimbabwe. When I was visiting there back in 1998 we visited the archives and were able to order reprints of old photos from their amazing catalog of images. We paid a small fee, filled out some paperwork and several months later this and a few other pictures surprised me when they showed up in my mailbox.
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(Brooklyn, that is.) Why? Because only here could this exist nowhere near a McDonald's.
A recent illustration for WSJ.com regarding economists current view of our economic standing. I usually have around 24 hours to turn these illo's around and in this case I wish I had a bit more time to work on the drawing.
Just found out that the great Arthur C. Clarke has passed away. This past fall I came across a dusty and yellowed pile of his books in The Stone Soup Bookstore of Camden Maine. I began to quickly digest his amazing stories and man were they in my wheelhouse. The Times has a great obit. I'd recommend Rendezvous with Rama, Childhood's End or Against the Fall of Night if your interested in a bit of grand sci-fi.
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This Celtic Cross was created some years back as a speculative Irish tourism poster. Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
I have a fresh new website- go check it owt!www.stuartkolakovic.co.uk There's still a few little extras that need adding- including a microsite containing the whole nine meter plus of "Never Been" that's in the pipeline...
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While working on a recent illustration I started using the lasso tool in Photoshop to draw some quick and spontaneous character silhouettes, which I really enjoyed. I was playing around some more with that this week in the lab...Also playing with the custom brushes a bit.
After a chat with P.A. this week about custom brushes (typical graphics nerds that we are), and in the spirit of openness and sharing that has energized the online illustration community, I am giving away the farm and offering up my most frequently used custom brushes for anyone to download...these were exported from CS3, so hopefully you can use 'em...
Download: Keegan's Custom Brush Collection #1
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Here are a couple characters for the Anteism road trip I whuped up. And a couple others.
I have just finished this acrylic paint. I really liked but unintentionally I did a "tear" on the canvas... =/
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Poul Henningsen, PH Lamp, 1927
An image for an article about The National Survey of Health and Development that appeared in The Guardian here in the U.K. last week.
so, i was leaving studio the other night, and while walking to my car, i noticed something strange hanging in the air...
(the photo somehow reminds me of ed ruscha... one of my favorite artists.) i've never lived in any place quite like philly!
ps: i got a lovely letter (email) from a gal in hong kong who was visiting the iman site and had such nice things to say. it's feels good to receive mail like that. thanks hilda! :)
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Recent illo for WSJ.com. There's something rather timid looking about that googly-eyed congress.
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...for an album column about alternative country/americana music, featuring the likes of Radar Brothers, Puerto Muerto, Murder By Death, Mark Pickerel And His Praying Hands. You can tell by the amount of "panels" I've been drawing recently that I'm pretty keen to start on my comic...
Last fall I created experimental prints of my Manhattan Bridge drawing using both paper and photo lithography. The results are above. Both processes involve a fair balance of science and "magic" to create an image. I found paper lithograph, both print and process, to be much more successful and easier to comprehend. Photo lithography will require a lot more experimentation to get any sort of desirable outcome.
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| 03/24 Selected Sketches |
| 03/24 More Prints for Sale! |
| 03/21 Elephant Parade 2008 |
| 03/20 Ndebele healer |
| 03/20 I'm Lovin' It |
| 03/18 Economic Whirlpool |
| 03/17 Saint Patricks Day |
| 03/17 New website! www.stuartkolakovic.co.uk |
| 03/14 Silhouette lab and custom brushes |
| 03/11 Anteism road trip characters 2 |
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