Dreamslandia Studio just contacted me to let me know of their upcoming artbook that's on selfie art. They are challenging the notion that you don't have to be famous to appear in an artbook. It looks like it's going to be a portrait artbook but I do see chibi style drawings that's usually not associated with portraits.

Check out the campaign at https://kck.st/1VCzzzF

It ends 6 Nov 2015.

Field artist and visual journalist Richard Johnson has put up a wonderful piece of visual journalism at Washington Post on the patients at Children’s National Medical Center. It's powerful and moving. His sketches really captures the mood in a way photographs cannot.

From his own words:

As I sketched this scene of the young family saying goodbye to their dying baby I felt enormous pressure to capture the moment for them. It was an incredibly sad time and I remember quite clearly having to force myself to concentrate on the drawing and not on the emotions of the moment. The internal battle was waged throughout the sketch. Afterwards I closed my sketchbook feeling that my slavishness for detail had drowned out the very emotion I had sought to capture. I felt like I had failed. A few days later though I looked at it again. I realized that my slavishness had captured the moment after all, and then I cried for them. Ballpoint. Probably 40 minutes. Hardest drawing I have ever done.

Dale Laitinen shares his colour recipes for mixing greens, grays and violets in this video.

Mixing greens
Phthalo Blue + Quinacridone Gold
Cobalt Blue + New Gamboge
New Gamboge + Phthalo Green

Mixing grays
French Ultramarine + Burnt Orange/Burnt Sienna
Phthalo Green + Permanent Alizarin Crimson
Cobalt Blue + Quinacridone Red + Quinacridone Gold

Mixing violets
Cobalt Blue + Quinacridone Red
French Ultramarine + Permanent Alizarin Crimson
French Ultramarine + Cadmium Red

A year ago, I wrote about 21 Draw's Character Resource book. This year, 21 Draw is putting out another new book, a tutorial book on character design and figure drawing by artists who have worked in the comics, film and animation industry.

Check out the details at https://kck.st/1LPdho9

The Kickstarter campaign closes on 31 Oct 2015.