Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Art Theft for Amateurs

I recently read Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon. It was a thoughtful and inspiring book, but it gave no advice on how to literally steal art. 

6 comments:

  1. Hey Grant, have you ever seen the work of Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig? I think you'd get a kick out of his stuff; it's very similar in style to your own brand of gentle absurdism.

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  2. Hi i've just started following your blog and wondered how you draw your comics? Do you do them straight into a digital program or draw them out and scan them in??

    Thanks, I really like your work. :)

    my design blog: www.emzishere.blogspot.com

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  3. Greasemonkey: No, but I'll check out his work. Also, I'm putting "gentle absurdist" on my business cards.

    Emily: Thank you! Everything is hand drawn in pen and marker, but I scan them in and add color in Photoshop.

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  4. Thank you very much for replying to me - I really like the style of your work and will definitely keep checking your blog! :)

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  5. My fiancee just sent me the link to this comic, and I am beyond tickled; I wrote a play that's opening in two days about a (botched) art heist, and within the first few pages, one of the characters makes mention of her particular disdain for balloon animals. So I saw this and immediately shared it with the cast. It kind of made my day.

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  6. There is a book, titled "KRAKEN", by the great fantasy author China De Mieville, in which the second panel of this comic actually occurs(with a small variation- it was a giant squid, rather than a shark)

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