Martin Handford is the illustrator and creator of those Waldo books that you used to lay on the floor and stare at until you had the texture of the carpet tattooed onto your elbows. He just put this illustration (below) into one of his books. Do you recognize it? If not, you don’t know who Melanie Coles is, and you somehow didn’t hear about her amazing art project: Where On Earth Is Waldo?

The project is so fabulous it is entitled to two images before the “more” button (amazing, I know). Melanie’s graduate project was to turn Google maps into a giant page from a Where’s Waldo book. She and her cohorts painted a giant Waldo and placed it on the top of an unknown building in Vancouver and waited for it to be photographed by Google’s satellite.

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In keeping with the bird theme, here are some fabulous songbird sculptures by Emily Sutton. This little guy right here is a “Bluetit”. And yes, it was very hard for me not to go with a more “humorous” title for this post but I am taking the high road here…

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I’m going to invent a bunch of words to describe the work of James Gulliver Hancock. Fantastimagical. Collagenius. Inkredible. Ok, I’m done. Hancock also wins this week’s best artist name award.

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Draw with light! Instructions and submission form here.

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If Illustration had its own Olympics (idea copyrighted by Jeff Hamada 2008) , Eamo Donnelly could certainly captain the Australians to Olympic gold. He uses good old-fashion inks, brushes and pencils to start and finishes digitally. Great work with a unique look.

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Yasmine does it again. Put either of these illustrations on a t-shirt at Threadless or DesignbyHumans and I guarantee she gets a couple grand, instead she just throws these up every night for free. A Print A Day continues to be the best kept secret on the net. Rainbows after the jump!

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My buddy Bob Kronbauer is releasing his first film “Little Giants Volume One: Don Pendleton”. The film is a peek into the life of Don Pendleton whose breadth of amazing artwork for Alien Workshop alone is staggering, let alone his work for Element and other companies. Below are some of the faces you’ll see in the film – all singing Pendleton’s (well-deserved) praises. View the trailer after the jump!

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I came across two pieces by Andrew Lewicki that made me chuckle (and by chuckle I mean I didn’t make any audible noise whatsoever, but I pictured myself standing there in the gallery saying something like  hey that’s pretty funny”). Gold-plated Skate Rail (shown below) and Walnut Skate Ramp (after the jump). Other works include buffing a legal wall at Venice Beach.

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