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Visual Art by the Human Body Visual Art by the Human Body Calvin and Hobbes Snow Art Gallery Snow Art in ColourSend Calvin and Hobbes Postcards Online! Calvin and Hobbes Fan Page Email: mailkate20@yahoo.com Inspired by Garbage Bag Last week, we profiled Trojan's condom developer and chief principal scientist. But Trojan, big as it may be, doesn't have the market cornered on condom creativity. Startup Sensis Condoms claims that its products are simple enough to be put on blindfolded--and according to founder Beau Thompson, the inspiration for Sensis' QuikStrips-equipped condoms is pretty trashy. Thompson didn't always want to be a condom entrepreneur. Thompson's pull-tab revelation came in the late 1990s, and since then, he has been working to grow the Sensis brand. It's hard to say whether Sensis has a chance against its larger competitors, but Thompson is game for the challenge.

Comic Heartstrings He can hear you. Transcript: Comic 'Heartstrings' Panel 1Mr.Clean: Ugh. Panel 2Mr.Clean: Look at this thing, it's just a bunch of random strings everywhere. Panel 3[A spider weeps as his life's work is physically and ideologically destroyed] 35 Funny Illustrations by Tiago Hoisel – with Exclusive Interview Today we have the special honor to discuss about digital art and painting with Tiago Hoisel. Besides the great collection of humorous illustrations that he has provided for us, Tiago also gives precious advice and shares interesting information in the below exclusive interview. Amazing creativity, detail and fun are the perfect words to describe his artwork. A: My name is Tiago Hoisel, I’m graduated in graphic design in Universidade do Estado da Bahia. “Chico Bento” Q: Your illustrations are so funny and expressive! A: I always liked humor and realism, so when I started to draw I tried to bring these two thing to my work. “Teenager” Q: What software do you use and which is the feature you couldn’t live without, of that particular software? A: Nowadays 100% of my work is produced in Photoshop CS3, with A Intuos III Tablet. “Meeting with Girlfriend’s Family” Q: We have heard that you are implied in a new project: Techno Image. “Maria!” Q: Which is your favourite thing in the whole wide world?

Never Be My Friend When I'm bored, I browse through my friends' Facebook images, choose my favorites, and draw them. Sometimes I take... liberties. Let's just call it artistic license. R.I.P. when I drew you looking like a corpse. I occasionally wonder why I still have friends at all. Fish - Fablewood The entire Fablewood anthology can be found here on Amazon.

Nacho Diaz Nothing is Forgotten Next >> 75 Exceptional Moleskine Notebook Artworks Moleskine notebooks are a favorite among many artists, designers and writers. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and with many different kinds of paper. The elastic closure and pocket in the back of each one adds to their utility. The popularity of Moleskines among the art community ensures that there are thousands of great examples of Moleskine art out there. Flickr alone has a huge pool of Moleskine artists. One group, Moleskine: One Page at a Time, has nearly 4,000 members and more than 36,000 images in their pool. Below are 75 fantastic Moleskine artworks, all collected from Flickr. Fine Art and Illustration A lot of traditional artists opt for Moleskines, due to their variety of paper types and their durability. Moleskine 2 by Andy Gosling: A heart and the letter “A”, created from interwoven arteries. Moleskine book 5, page 72 by Steve Loya. Moleskine Sketches by Jimbradshaw. Moleskine book 1, pages 61 and 62 by Steve Loya. Moleskine “A cat in my head” by Framboisine Berry.

| Eleanor Davis / Comics and Illustration eleanor davis / images | 2008 | Comics more Our Bloodstained Roof ShareThis Copy and Paste Masterpieces Painted By The Chinese TotallyCoolPix A Van Gogh? You’ve got it. A Dali? 1 A painter eats his lunch in a studio at Dafen Oil Painting Village in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province April 25, 2011. 2 Painting brushes are placed for sale at a shop at Dafen Oil Painting Village, in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, April 25, 2011. 3 Pigment tins are placed on the roof of a studio at Dafen Oil Painting Village, in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, April 25, 2011. 4 A painter works on an oil painting next to a portrait of China's late Chairman Mao Zedong in his studio selling the portraits of U.S. 5 A two-year-old boy, the son of a vendor, sleeps next to oil paintings at a gallery at Dafen Oil Painting Village in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province April 26, 2011. 6 A vendor waits for customers in a gallery at Dafen Oil Painting Village in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province April 26, 2011.

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