Jason Carne

Another skilled lettering artist I have come across this evening, perhaps not as experimental in terms of the media he uses but still fully on it with these pen sketches, the rest of his work has been digitalised and looks very nice but not in the same league as these drawings. I've done a fair few sketches recently but not really attempted to combine them with shapes and other illustrative elements yet, I have a feeling as of tomorrow I will attempt to do so. I have a long way to go to get anywhere near this standard however.

Drew Melton

A few pieces of work by this guy I came across named Drew Melton who operates through this website:

http://yourjustlucky.com/

He seems to have a dedication to pushing the boundaries of lettering that not many others seem to match;a lot of his pieces are straight onto the surface, no computers involved, just sketches and paint. This is the sort of thing that makes me happy when I look at it, it's taken me a while to find it but I truly enjoy this kind of work....luckily it seems to be the popular thing right now as well. There is something properly fresh about painting straight onto a glass jar; it's all to easy to design something on the computer and do a straight transfer using vinyl or something equally flat and uninspiring...

The Art of Lettering - sign painter's manual

http://ia600806.us.archive.org/27/items/artofletteringsi00boyc/artofletteringsi00boyc.pdf

Ches Perry sign painting

I'm aware this is a sort of pledge video but it's still pretty nice to watch him paint up a few letters here and there, he's obviously got many years of experience in the business.

Robin Abbey - sign painting

Found this neat little video on my searches, sign painting is something I have become quite interested in recently (as I'm sure a lot of people have). He raises a good point; quite often the quality of the lines stand out far more than that of a digitally rendered piece of work, and more and more these days people are looking for a more unique product.

Fundamentals

A couple of posters from this Fundamentals night in Detroit which I have a feeling is run by Kyle Hall, not sure who's done the posters but they have a nice playful style which I quite enjoy. particularly the 'Fundamentals' type, I did something a little similar for a friend of mine a while back.......not a copy of course....just inspired....

Arcade Graphics

Found these from http://artofthearcade.com/ , a decent blog kind of thing that displays quite a few old pieces of art and design relating to old arcade machines and stuff like that. Haven't looked at a lot of design in a while but I'm well drawn to these bold colours and stylings.