Video: Kids Describe God

"Kids Describe God to an Illustrator" by WatchCut Video

It’s no secret that kids have the wildest imaginations. They speak of daydreams with details on astronomical levels, and these visions are often almost physically impossible for the restricted adult mind to picture.

In this comedic video, WatchCut finally puts kids’ imaginations on paper. The channel invites Seattle-based illustrator Koji Minami to sit down and listen to some kids—believers and non-believers—describe God. He then sketches their descriptions to amazing detail and the end results are as fantastic as you’d expect.

Watch the video below for a good laugh.

Video: Ghost In The Shell Timelapse

"Ghost In The Shell Timelapse by Kim Jung Gi" by Super Ani

[ Previously: Fan Art Round-Up: The Major (Ghost in the Shell) Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 ]

Honestly, I could watch Kim Jung Gi draw all damn day long. The process as nearly as beautiful as the result.

Video: Drawing Motoko Kusanagi

"Drawing Motoko Kusanagi (Dirty Coloring Ver.)" by Jérôme Grassi

[ Previously: Fan Art Round-Up: The Major (Ghost in the Shell) Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 ]

Drawing Materials:

• Schoellershammer Manga Art Paper (A3 - 75g/m2)
• Faber-Castell Grip 1345 Mechanical Pencil (0.5 mm)
• Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens (Manga Black Set)
• Copic Multiliner Pens (Black)
• Copic Ciao Markers
• Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils
• Stabilo CarbOthello Pastel Pencils
• Paper Stump
• Uni-Ball Signo Broad UM-153 Gel Pen (White)

Video: Coloring Motoko Kusanagi

"Motoko Kusanagi" by Stanley Artgerm Lau

[ Previously: Fan Art Round-Up: The Major (Ghost in the Shell) Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 ]

"Starting to upload my Copic markers traditional art videos and the first in line is no other than Motoko from Ghost in the Shell. The who process took me about 3-4 hours."

Video: Rey Step-by-Step

"Rey Painting Time Lapse Video" by Meagan Glennon

[ Previously: Drawing Rey ]

Meagan Glennon recently posted this inspiring tutorial on drawing and painting Rey from The Force Awakens.  Check out the process shot below.

Video: Drawing Rey

"Drawing Rey - Star Wars: The Force Awakens" by Heather Rooney

[ Previously: Rey Step-by-Step ]

Okay, some people are born with talent, and others... make them look like they weren't.  Youtube's Heather Rooney is one of those rare artists so skilled that you have to see her draw a piece to believe it isn't a Photoshoped photograph.

Event: Drawlloween 2015

October is here, and artists around the web are participating in Drawlloween!  Drawlloween is a challenge to draw a image with a different Halloween-theme every day.

Kevin Luong, one of the originators of the October #Drawlloween drawing challenge, has released his 2015 list. While there isn’t really an “official” #Drawlloween list, per se, this is probably the closest you’ll get!

I invite all creatives and non-creatives alike to participate in this daily challenge. Draw, paint, letter, design, photograph, sculpt (or whatever) something everyday according to the daily topic. Be sure to tag your creation with #drawlloween on all social media platforms as well as share here so we can all see what you came up with!

In the spirit of the season, The Geek Art Gallery will be posting daily sketches from artists participating in Drawlloween along with drawing tutorials for people with a keen interest in learning to draw!  If you find an artist whose work you enjoy, bookmark the post, as we'll be updating Drawlloween posts throughout the month!

Illustration: 31 Days of Halloween

"31 Days of Halloween" by Autumn Frederickson

Halloween is here and artists across Tumblr are celebrating with the 31 Days of Halloween Challenge, in which they challenge themselves to draw one classic horror character each day of the month.  Here's one of the best examples I've found, but there are plenty more scattered across the web.

Illustration: 31 Days of Halloween

"31 Days of Halloween Challenge" by Jason of Mayonnaise & Bread Dot Com

Sketch cards available for purchase from the artist's Tumblr. US$20

Halloween is here and artists across Tumblr are celebrating with the 31 Days of Halloween Challenge, in which they challenge themselves to draw one classic horror character each day of the month.  Here's one of the best examples I've found, but there are plenty more scattered across the web.

Illustration: Harry, Ron, and Hermione

"Harry, Ron, and Hermione" by Skottie Young

Prints available for purchase from BigCartel.

Illustration: Death

"Death" by Skottie Young

Fresh Take: Marvel Characters

Marvel Characters Drawn from Everyday Objects by Nguyen Quang Huy (Draw4Fun)

Twenty-five year-old freelance artist Nguyen Quang Huy creates super heroes by hand, using common household objects as a starting point.  The results are sure to get your creative juices flowing.

Sketches: Hulk vs. Hulkbuster

Hulk vs. Hulkbuster Pencil Drawing by Julio Lucas

Illustration: Hayao Miyazaki Doodle Tribute

Hayao Miyazaki Doodle Tribute by Mandaluyong, Philippines-based Kerby Rosanes

Prints available for purchase from Society6.

"A Japanese client commissioned me to create this piece combining some of the most notable characters from popular Hayao Miyazaki films such as Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle. He said my doodles remind him of Mayazaki characters. I do love his animated films as well so this one is so much fun to do although I rarely do fan art."

Illustration: StormTrooper

"StormTrooper" by Josh Frey (@liveevil19)

Illustration: Steam-Babel

"Steam-Babel" by Marc Mandril Ferrario

I love the fact that this is bionically-inspired steampunk.  This could become a whole new art genre.  I don't think I've ever had 470 hours of patience for anything, much less the talent to bring something like this together.  If I ever did muster the talent to draw something like this, I'd end up making some horrific mistake about three hundred hours in.

"After 470 hours of work, I finally finished my picture inspired by the Tower of Babel in a post-industrial steam victorian replay.  Come on ! Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach the sky and let us make us a name so as not to be scattered all over the surface of the earth. "(Genesis 11.2)"

Illustration: Ultron

"Ultron" by Ruben WestSide (xoramos661)

I had a hard time believing this wasn't Photoshoped until I browsed through the rest of WestSide's account.  Evidently, a buttload of talent is a perfectly acceptable substitute for the Adobe suite. 

Illustration: The Companion

"The Companion" by London-based Maria Tiurina

"I guess that this is my biggest work to date. It’s an A1 format ink in cardboard - a drawing that took almost half a year to complete. Also used watercolor, pencil and markers.

I call it “The Companion.” A story about two friends - a girl and her imaginary pet - who traveled for a long time, saw many beautiful places and met a lot of new people, creatures and animals who joined them as their journey continued. They arrived to something that resembles the edge of the world, and at first it might seem that their adventure has come to an end, but the girl is pointing at something high above that we cannot see, showing to her companion that there are more things to discover and enjoy together if only they wish to continue moving forward.

It’s a metaphor for the life experience and the luggage of our imagination. Everyone has a friend - the creature of mind - that follows them from the first day of their life, picking up experience, memories and emotions. We decide for ourselves what to load the vessel with, what the faithful creature of mind and memory will carry along with us to the edge of our existence.

Travel, see, feel, collect everything you find in your life - you never know what things you will want to have with you when the journey comes to an end."

Illustration: Mecha Girls

Mecha Girls by Sukabu

Sukabu's Tumblr is stuffed with awesome drawings of girls in high tech get ups.  They're not the over-proportioned sex pots you usually encounter when artists depict fem fatals as cyborgs in manga.  Instead, they're simple and sweet and ladened with possibilities.  All I can think is that this would make a fantastic manga series.  The art style reminds me vaguely of FLCL.

Illustration: Boba Fett

"Boba Fett" by Salamanca, Spain-based Rodrigo Lorenzo López