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Here’s some things we (Editors -at- illustrationfriday.com) have been told about recently and enjoyed:

• Polish up your Spanish and check out Anika Burton’s free-form sketch blog.
• Fancypantsrodgers.co.uk has a clever picture-framed portfolio design, as well as some greeting cards you might like.
• Erin Green is just finishing up her ultra-cute kid’s book, Usyou, with nifty found-object photographic illustrations, and has added a downloadable PDF of the whole thing!
• Eva-Lena Rehnmark is giving away a georgeous painting in a georgeous gesture in support of giving and the 29-day Giving Challenge.
• Dan Swartz is a vector expert with an impressive gallery.

A reminder: If you’re interested in joining the ad rotation over there on the right, we’ll need a “skyscraper” image 160 pixels wide by 600 pixels high. Then we can feature your work (at our entire discretion) occasionally/sporadically in the ad space. (See Brianna’s original idea in this post for more information.)

Happy Weekend!

How cool is this? MOO is now offering business cards, and in grand MOO style! Everything that makes MOO mini-cards awesome (and stickers, and postcards, and…) is now available in full sized business cards. As Penny says - oh my MOO-ness!

Each one can uniquely showcase a different illustration, comes with a very snazzy case, and you don’t have to order hundreds at a time - MOO gives you the option to order as few as 50 business cards at once.

“MOO Business Cards are anything but ordinary combining high-quality design and one-of-a kind printing options, meaning that every one of your business cards can be unique. Choose your best photos/design to create truly unique Business Cards that will not only serve as a networking tool but also as a mini-portfolio of your work.”

So, individually designed cards, an ecological paper option (love it!), spiff card case - can it get any better? Of course! MOO is offering 10 free packs to IF artists, and a 15% discount on 50 more packs - so click here fast to grab ‘em before they’re gone!

Just ask our previous MOO giveaway winners - MOO cards are somethin’ special. And if you’re one of the lucky ones who get a free or discounted pack, send us some pics at [email protected] and we’ll showcase them here!

Drawing Day is a worldwide drawing event encouraging everyone to drop everything and draw for the sake of art. The internet is an open canvas. Help contribute to the 1 million drawings online this day by doing a drawing of your own and then posting your drawing online to one of the sites listed on this page. Don’t forget to mention Drawing Day when you post!

Drawing Day 08 starts tomorrow (Saturday), but really lasts all weekend…

Hope you contribute! How fun!

a majority of contemporary paintings are created in dafen, china by talented but anonymous artists who use their skills to recreate famous works of art. an organization called Regional invited some of those craftsmen to paint themselves. “The final works

thanks to my brother and boing boing for the story!

Last month Jacob Souva from Two Fish Illustration & Design illustrated this piece for the IF Topic: “Heavy”. (Isn’t it charming?) He’d heard about Hallmark’s “Your Funny-ness” contest and decided to submit his illustration to that as well.

Well, wouldn’t you know it? He’s one of the top 18 finalists! (Go Jacob!)

If you’d like, go to Hallmark’s page and vote for Jacob (Jacob Souva - The Sumo Suit).

If he wins, his illustration will be featured in Hallmark stores this summer. Good luck Jacob!

As though you needed another website telling you what to draw, Project Rooftop

The Portrait Party is one year old today! To celebrate, everyone gets a birthday card and a few of you get presents!

Here are the details.

P.s., The birthday illustration above was drawn by Christine Castro.

I received an email from my super talented friend Jen Rarey at Hallmark Cards that they are holding a contest for all aspiring greeting card illustrators a chance to get published. See contest details here.

As a greeting card illustrator myself I can say it’s a great way to get a start in the business with the number one name in greeting cards.

I’ve been surprised to receive a lot of emails asking how to throw a portrait party. There is no wrong way to do it but, to get your party started, I wrote out some instructions.

Each of the portraits above was drawn by Christine Castro in just two minutes!

Ok friends and neighbors, we’ve closed comments on the MOO Haiku Giveaway and chosen this week’s random winner!

Congratulations to Radha who says:

Thinking and scribbling,
trying to write haiku.
I’d sure like some MOO.

There was some pretty beautiful poetry blossoming in that thread. Nice work, artists!

Yesterday, Mark V. Tushnet author of Out Of Range: Why the Constitution Can’t End the Battle Over Guns, introduced us to the gun-rights argument. Today Tushnet takes a closer look at the gun-control position. Be sure to check back tomorrow for part three in this series.

Gun-control proponents support their position with several arguments. First, the text: The Second Amendment does refer to the militia, and the gun-rights position deprives the Amendment’s preamble of any operative significance, which is unusual in constitutional interpretation. But there’s more to the textual argument. The Constitution refers to the Militia in two additional places. It gives Congress the right to laws providing for the calling forth of the Militia, and it reserves to states the right to appoint the officers of the Militia. These references clearly deal with the state-organized Militia, and we ought to interpret the Second Amendment to use the term in the same way. The Second Amendment would then prohibit Congress from disarming the state-organized militia – and would thereby preserve the ability of those militias to resist an oppressive national government. (more…)

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Rebecca OUP-US

Depictions of nature often reflect the mood in Tess of the D’Urbervilles. For example as Tess sits listening to Angel play the harp, “The floating pollen seemed to be in his notes made visible, and the dampness of the garden the weeping of the garden’s sensibility. Though near nightfall, the rank-smelling weed-flowers glowed as if they would not close, for intentness, and the waves of colour mixed with the waves of sound” (page 139). (more…)

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