September 02, 2008

Spraygun Mona Lisa, hipster anatomy, & more

Recent illustration finds:

• At the Nvision conference across from Adobe last week, the Mythbusters guys showed how to paint the Mona Lisa in 80 milliseconds. [Via]
• "Part medical and part American Apparel": Hipster anatomical drawings. [Via]
• Radiating:
  • I want to run around with Dan Funderburgh’s array of sharp things, letterpressed into a poster.
  • Dig Sam Winston’s pencil shavings.
• Hot cartographic action:
  • National Geographic offers a map o’ the day feature, displaying high-res maps through what appears to be Zoomify. [Via]
  • Adding perspective to maps: Mark Mayers demonstrates how to give flat Illustrator maps a third dimension by using the Free Transform tool and a custom perspective grid.
  • Mark Simonson surveys the cartographic typography of the Indiana Jones series.
• This poop-scooping illustration doesn’t stink. [Via David Macy]