Drawings

Chalk that can draw deadly weapons look fun until they kill you

Screw playing Call of Duty or Halo or Titanfall or any next generation video game, I want this Chalk Warfare game where you draw your own weapons and fight your friends to become real. Your weapons are only limited by your imagination and well, your drawing skills. Sure normal guns and drones and energy swords…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 17

Artist inserts his hilarious monster drawings into real life

To have a little bit of fun, artist Marty Cooper drew some cute critters and funny looking monsters on a transparent sheet and inserted them into real life. As in he superimposed his drawings into the environment around him. It’s like what the world would look like if monsters were living among us. You’ll see…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 14

Watch Wind-up Toys and Walkmen Create Intricate Mechanical Drawings

Art can happen where you least expect it, which is definitely the case with the work of Echo Yang, who uses small toys and everyday electronics to create detailed drawings. Yang is a student of information design at Design Academy Eindhoven. In an effort to put a twist on the trend of generative design based…

Tech News Michael Hession Feb 28

Watch This Etch A Sketch Tell the Story of Its Inventor

Drawing on an Etch A Sketch is hard. Well, it is if you want to do more than just make a horrible mess of angularity. But the squarish beauty of the line-drawing toy is put to great use in this clever little animation that tells the story of André Cassagnes, its inventor. Put together by…

Tech News Eric Limer Dec 28

Lovely Mom Draws Awesome Pictures on Napkins for Her Son’s Lunch

If you didn’t know, Mother’s day is a few weeks away (May 12th this year) so it’s a pretty good idea to tell your Mom you love her. Though you should do that everyday! Especially if you’re the sons of amazing Nina Levy. She turns regular ol’ lunch napkins into wonderful pieces of art. Just…

Tech News Casey Chan Apr 29

1970s Children Draw Robot Presidents and Nuclear Apocalypse

American futurism of the 1970s is a fascinating mix of sleek Jetsonian utopianism and dreary mushroom cloud hellscapes. Nowhere is this dichotomy of tomorrowism more evident than in children’s drawings of the future. I’ve always found that some of the most interesting predictions come from children, who tend to express ideas that reflect both the…

Tech News Matt Novak Feb 23

With One Click, You Can See Every Google Doodle Ever Made

What’s better than some Google Doodles? How about ALL of the Google Doodles all shiny and in chronological order. It’s simple: 1) Go to Google.com. 2) Hit “I’m Feeling Lucky” without typing anything first. 3) Enjoy. [Big ups to Matt Cherette for the link] You can keep up with Brent Rose, the author of this…

Tech News Brent Rose Nov 28

When In Doubt, Just Get a Sharpie-Armed Robot to Do Your Work Instead

Terrible drawers of the world, unite—and arm yourselves with a 3-axis CNC machine that’s been outfitted with a Sharpie pen for converting a vector image file to a tangible drawing in seconds. MWM Graphics, aarn and Paper Fortress Films did just that; the artworks of which you can purchase for—gulp—$175 each. [Vimeo via What Katie…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jul 22

Express Your Abstract Side With Sktch for iOS

Everyone and their brother has downloaded a brushes-based drawing app for their iPad. Those apps are fine, but if you’re looking for a something outside the box, you need to check out Sktch. Sktch was designed by several digital artists and published by CreativeApplications.Net. It includes 16 presets that let you draw circles, meshes or…

Tech News Kelly Jul 19

Had Darwin Discovered the Angry Birds…

I imagine his sketches would’ve looked something like this. Looking for that perfect gift for ornithologist gamers? A printed-out, laminated copy of this drawing would look terrific on their bathroom wall. [Zero-Lives via BuzzFeed via LaughingSquid]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Nov 19

Back to the Future II Concept Drawings: Extreme Hoverboard Envy

Every time I get sad I don’t have a hoverboard, I remind myself that Back to the Future II takes place in 2015. There’s still time! And as these exquisite original concept drawings show, there’s so much more to crave. I always enjoy a good vision of the future, but something about these images by…

Tech News Brian Barrett Apr 5

Barnaby Ward Pits Cute Girls Against Monsters and Giant Robots

Nearly all of Barnaby Ward’s comics and narrative illustrations feature beautiful young girls, slender, hip, with unruly hair and too much eyeliner. But these girls provide an anchor for Ward’s far wilder depictions of giant robots, elaborate machines, and grotesque monsters, creating manga-inspired works with tinges of Edward Gorey. Check out our gallery to see…

io9 Lauren Davis Nov 30

Drawings of Early Microscopes Show Artistry in the Pursuit of Science

Ah, where would science be if not for the contributions of the humble microscope? Did you know that the development of the world’s first microscope began in 11th century Iraq, when scientist and polymath Ibn al-Haytham recorded all sorts of data about lenses, binocular vision, mirrors and observable properties of light his The Book of…

Tech News Elaine Chow Aug 23

Chalk that can draw deadly weapons look fun until they kill you

Artist inserts his hilarious monster drawings into real life

Watch Wind-up Toys and Walkmen Create Intricate Mechanical Drawings

Watch This Etch A Sketch Tell the Story of Its Inventor

Lovely Mom Draws Awesome Pictures on Napkins for Her Son’s Lunch

1970s Children Draw Robot Presidents and Nuclear Apocalypse

With One Click, You Can See Every Google Doodle Ever Made

When In Doubt, Just Get a Sharpie-Armed Robot to Do Your Work Instead

Express Your Abstract Side With Sktch for iOS

Had Darwin Discovered the Angry Birds…

Back to the Future II Concept Drawings: Extreme Hoverboard Envy

Barnaby Ward Pits Cute Girls Against Monsters and Giant Robots

Drawings of Early Microscopes Show Artistry in the Pursuit of Science

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