Around a year ago a good friend of mine (Andrew Campbell of Monkey’s Inc.),  recommended a couple short YouTube clips to me by LeSean Thomas (animator/illustrator/director/etc).
I found those vids pretty inspiring and have since subscribed to his channel on YouTube. He’s now in Seoul working on his own graphic novel. Somehow he still manages to find time to create nice short clips to motivate budding artists and fans.
His dedication and effort stand out as massive driving forces toward his success. What takes this beyond the informative value of a tutorial …

Just found this – I wasn’t expecting that ending. Check it out – 24Hour Comic by Kajusx:

24 Hour Comic Book by *kajusx on deviantART

Prepared for quite a hours on public transport, I decided to give Autodesk Sketchbook a spin. I’ve had it a while now and purchased it shortly after seeing a friend demo it.
The app looks much like the desktop version with familiar intuitive and minimal user interface. Battery consumption is great was and didn’t crash once during 2 maybe 3 hours of use. However, despite being fairly robust it I would warn anyone using, or intending to use it in the near future to watch out for…
PHONE-CALLS!!
yup! Irony at it’s …

I stumbled across this artist around 2 years ago on one of my trips to Forbidden Planet @ Tottenham Court Road Branch . Unknown to me at the time, this artist had an affiliation with another of my favourite artists Tanaka Tatsuyuki via STUDIO4℃, a Japanese animation studio.
This animator mainly works freelance these days making music videos and other shorts. He has worked with the Wachowski Brothers to direct “Beyond”, a segment of The Animatrix and is said to be working on another short movie ‘Sachiko’, his second feature-length film.
I …

Tanaka Tatsuyuki has to be in my artist top-10, and has been responsible for some of the most sophisticated animations in the industry. He forged his name in the late 80′s whilst working freelance as a key animator on the arm mutation scene in the cult anime classic Akira.
Since then he has joined with a few other artist (including another favorite of mine) at Studio 4°C. He now spends his time creating illustrations, manga, and short animations and other commissioned works.
His book titled Cannabis Works is a joy to read …