Looney Snow Beasts

For the design of these very snow bears (mascots for an Austrian pure natural snow ski resort) I used for colour reference (like brown tones of the cabins, blue tones of the snow etc.) an old tourism poster from 1937 by Erich von Wunschheim. The colours work so well with these looney beasts.

The Future Of The Past: Braniff Airlines Commercial (1968)

Another 'future of the past' gem, Braniff Airlines and what they anticipated for 1975, priceless! Via/more clips and images see Diversity Is Beautiful

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Apropos, here's a lovely illustrated Braniff Airline magazine ad from the 1950s: (via Duke University)

And here are some of Jeff Vorzimmer's stellarly restored posters of the original Braniff Airlines sujets from the 1960s:

Drawing Tools II

Often, I enjoy to start a sketch with a regular ballpoint pen and follow up in Photoshop. I like how this adds a kind of telephone doodle touch to it.

Drawing Tools

For ages, I swear by sharpen my pencils with a knife, it makes the pencil lines so extra.

Final Day!

Go Cedric!

Another John Starduck Vehicle Reference: The Ford Mexico High Performance Sports Car Scale Model

Pure design beauty from the 1950s by industrial designer Alex Tremulis (who was BTW also the designer of the legendary Ford Seattle-ite XXI concept car). I already can feel the duck inside.

Warm-Up Sketch: Walt Kelly Inspired

Walt Kelly Reference via

Walt Kelly Reference via

One Million Dollar Photo

Carlo Vinci at Hanna-Barbera studios, working on 'The Flintstones', ca. 1960. (via Google images/LIFE and Animation Resources)

Behind The Scenes: Today, With The Muppets

Check out a huge collection of pretty rare behind the scenes photos, right from the 1970s, at Retronaut. (via/thanks to Laura)

Cartoon Particles by Markus Hofko

"markus hofko is a german designer who goes by the pseudonym ‘the rainbowmonkey’. his work spans multiple disciplines but focuses on graphics and photography. in his latest project, hofko has created a series of images that dissect the faces of well-known cartoon characters into their various particles. as he states, ‘while everyone seems to be on the search for the god-particle, I looked for the basic elements of the classic comic characters.’ the result is a strange and abstract look at some of the world’s most recognizable faces." designboom

John Starduck Rocket Ship: Main Reference/Inspiration

The Douglas X3 Stiletto was a 1950s United States experimental jet aircraft. (via Google images/LIFE)

The Duck In The Rice Cooker...

John Gannam

Reading comics... (via Leif Peng)

Paper, Pencil, Mouse

I think I posted this very piece already here, but anyways, 'thought it would make a nice pencilly start to this week.

Weekend

This made me really laugh. Loud. (via Ufunk)

Superman One-Piece Leisure Super-Suit

Smashing! (via swissmiss)

Futurism of the 1960s: Women In Space

Hilarious sexist Lestoil ad from the past's tomorrow, via Diversity is beautiful. This is a great space helmet btw, it reminds me strongly of Andre Courreges', Paco Rabanne's and Pierre Cardin's space age fashion designs in the 1960s.

Apropos women and space, recently, I stumbled across the beautiful original poster art of Fritz Lang's Die Frau im Mond/Woman In The Moon (1929), enjoy:

The Daily Beast

An Indian parrot hatchling is fed by hand. (via)

Photo: AFP PHOTOSTRDEL/AFP/Getty Images

Which in turn fed my inspiration:

Warm-up sketch: Satzinger