I absolutely love Tom Neely’s take on Popeye. The drawings and panels are gorgeous and the story is supremely bizarre. Check out the whole thing here.

A friend at work recommended me his blog. Really terrific stuff!

If you’re not already following Mattias’ blog, here’s a good reason to start:

The Drawing Script is a great site for brushing up on your gesture sketching. It’s a fully automated and scalable gallery of models of all shapes and sizes in a variety of action poses. There’s even big cats too! I just finished re-reading the first volume of Drawn to Life, so this find is great timing for me as I don’t have a lot of extra time to travel the hour it takes to get to the nearest gesture classes. Here some samples:

By the way, if you don’t own copies of volume 1 and volume 2 of Drawn to Life, BUY THEM NOW. If I had to whittle my animation bookshelf down to five books, these two would remain on my shelf:

Child Prodigy Alert! Meet De’Von Stubblefield, a 16-year old visual development intern at Walt Disney Animation Studios. After the drawings below have finished knocking your socks off, you should check out his blog. For a better view, check out the archives.

Here’s another How-To post on making comics, this one by Dustin Harbind. There’s a lot of these out there now, but it’s always fascinating to see the little differences in how artists work. Click the image to go.

Click the image below to be transported to Pat Grant’s awesome making-of blog post on creating comics. Also, don’t miss his stylish web-comic, ‘Blue.’