I’ve heard of passports numbers that didn’t match visa applications because of an L and I confusion. Passport
numbers and IDs should use serifs in my opinion…

Watervolour painting of a girl looking up, wearing a cap, scarf and a messenger bag

More watercolour painting practice. Trying not to be so scared of something more realistic. I'm not happy with the way I rendered the face here - I think it's overworked, messy and muddy, and the proportions are off overall, but that's what sketchbooks are for. 🤷‍♂️

Well, I love it! I wish I could make a watercolour look as fresh. And faces are so hard, I think you did great here!

4-4-2

Detrás de la reforma a la Ley de Glaciares, en Argentina, está el lobby minero que provee y sustenta a la industria de la IA generativa. «Hoy es prioridad a nivel mundial, despejar a la megaminería de cobre, y también de oro y plata» 🎯 Guillermo Folguera, investigador CONICET, activista ambiental.

A ceramic egg with three holes in it.

A ceramic egg that is clearly a salt and pepper shaker.

This salt-and-pepper shaker was in my daughter’s Easter basket, it was always my intention to steal it and now I have.

With over 3000 specimens, this Flickr collection is still unrivalled when it comes to vintage hotel luggage labels.
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Type & illustration gold.

This month’s post is about taking time to observe:

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Read it here:
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Wow Denis! 😍

Photo of an open sketchbook featuring a watercolour painting of a young woman

Making my way through this watercolour sketchbook

Photo of an oil pastel colour mixing chart

I picked up some new and replacement pastels yesterday and spent a bit of time on this mixing chart today. It came out higher in chroma than I anticipated, but I think there's also plenty of calmer colours, too. I'll have to see how I fare with this as my palette for the next couple of paintings.

Graphite sketch of a man

Once or twice per year I get the urge to draw more realistically and that's what this sketch is

Translation is a form of creation. The translator has to make decisions about preserving style over direct content, about cultural equivalence, about how to preserve a sense of pun or sentence structure from one language to the next. People who assume an LLM can do it are not understanding the task.

Most Insignificant I was so happy today to learn that when we die, we become minuscule dust specks: carbon, oxygen, iron, calcium and other stuff. The stuff that forms stars.

I was so happy today to learn that when we die, we become minuscule dust specks: carbon, oxygen, iron, calcium and other stuff. The stuff that forms stars.

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Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

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I’ll never get tired of his thread:

The sketch / the final

🦀🦞🐙🦐🦑 Sea creatures for Haguruma, a letterpress print company in Osaka (2020).

More processes: youtu.be/r8etXLZo94c

#illustration #draw #sketch #pencil #vector #lineart #geometry

I've said it before and I'll say it again - going back to illustrating in mixed media feels really good. Want the immediacy, texture and happy accidents of traditional materials with the control of digital art? Then tradigital is the way to go! 🙌

Hi #kidlitartpostcard !

I'm Hatem Aly, an illustrator of many books (who tries to make more time for writing as well). I enjoy working on smart, reflective, funny, and authentic stories for all age ranges.

💛 Picturebooks, chapter books, graphic novels, and books of all kinds.
metahatem.com

EP 98 | La ilustración en la era de la IA: ¿el equivalente al fast fashion visual? YouTube video by PRinsight Podcast sobre Comunicación

Hace unos días me invitaron Mati y Augusto a hablar en su podcast PRinsight sobre la IA y la ilustración. Aquí está la entrevista:

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2026 Books from 2026 Caldecott Winners Taking a look at upcoming books by our new Caldecott Medal and Honor winners.

Oh, hey - a lot of our 2026 Caldecott winners have books coming this year. Let's have a look . . . 100scopenotes.com/2026/01/28/2...

Illustrated cover of the book When I Met Robin with a man in a cowboy hat, singing and strumming a guitar, while a young boy listens on.

When I Met Robin - illustrated by Aurelius Battaglia. A song book dated 1968.

#wardsmorguefile

Si esa tendencia se extiende, me voy de aquí :(

The internet hosts several very good Walkman/personal stereo archive sites, but this is the slickest yet

walkman.land

Thanks @kottke.org

The others will be linked below

Seven mid century eastern european matchbox labels depicting people and books

Happy World Book Day! 📚

One of my unfinished sketches with color palette. Text: ai art is lazy, uninspired, and it all looks the same. Just fyi if you use the human plagiarism machine I don’t respect you as a creator.

Seeing a big influx on Insta of “children’s book illustrators” following me. Their profiles of full of clearly AI-generated, generic, smiling, dead-eyed children.

Imagine a newsletter subscription that includes also a yearly book. Something you could lick (not sure it'll taste good though, but you could!). A nicely printed object, fully made in Japan.
From today, ALL MundoMendo members get the books (a 30 euro value) for free.

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Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social