A-Face-A-Day Project by Sandra Reichl

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Over on her blog, Sandra Reichl, an Austrian art director/ illustrator, posts an endearing portrait of one of her many fellow Viennese inhabitants every day (or at least she tries to anyway).

Reichl draws these faces with a sense of fondness and warmth that one would normally reserve for close friends or loved ones. The illustrations are accompanied by a humorous fact about the person behind the face, which makes them even more endearing. Living in a city of 1.7 million beautiful people, would, in all probability mean that she will never run out of interesting faces to chose from for her art project.

Visit her A-Face-A-Day project to see more illustrations.

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The Calendar of Sexy Monsters

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BLACK LAJUNE = the Gill-man from The Creature from the Black Lagoon + June]

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[ MAYLIEN = the xenomorph from Alien + May ]

Artist, illustrator and designer, Erika Deoudes’s “The Calendar of Sexy Monsters” is a tongue-in-cheek, pinup style tribute to classic monsters of yore from pop culture.

The collection of 12 giclée prints features some of my favorite fiends like Gill-man from Creature from the Black Lagoon, Klaus Kinski’s Dracula from Nosferatu the Vampyre, and Zuul from Ghostbusters.

There are six options for the sets (which include both collectible calendars and “calendarless” calendars, which are just prints) ranging from $30 to $160, and individual prints range from $5 to $21.

The artist promises that if you order the calendar and prints at her Etsy store before 3rd December, she will make sure that your stuff will be shipped to you by the 13th.

Visit her website to see more of her weird and wonderful illustrations.

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Bad Dads: 4th Annual Art Tribute to the Films of Wes Anderson

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The-Royal-Tenenbaums-byTracie-ChingThe San Francisco-based Spoke Art gallery is currently presenting the 4th annual art edition of “Bad Dads,” their tribute to the culturally significant and influential cinema of director Wes Anderson.

The show, which opened on Halloween night, features the works of over 100 artists from around the globe, which have all been inspired by Anderson’s films. A wide range of affordable original paintings, sculptures, and limited edition screen prints and posters have been now made available at the gallery’s online store.

The show will be on view until November 23, 2013.

Visit Spoke Art for more details.

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Don’t Let This Happen To You – A Humorous Comic Strip

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If you’ve grown up reading and enjoying the shenanigans in Mad Magazine’s Spy vs. Spy, you will love these comic strips by Elana Pritchard, a Los Angeles-based cartoonist/animator. Pritchard, who considers E.C. Segar’s Popeye and the cartoons of Fleischer Studios to be amongst her many inspirations, wanted her strips to be “a throwback to the times where comics had a broad range of expressions, poses, and emotions.” 

At the moment, she is running an Indiegogo campaign to raise money to get the strips published in 24 page full color comic book. Contributors to the campaign will be able to receive goodies like signed copies, custom doodles and original drawings.

Link to Elana Pritchard’s site | Indiegogo campaign page.

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