A couple of videos with Ed Emberley discussing his work have turned up recently on YouTube, and they are both worth investigating. This first video gives us a peek into Emberley's beautiful 17th Century home in Massachusetts, a tour of both his drawing and his digital studio, and some memories of getting started as an illustrator.
This second video is another interview with Emberley, this time at the opening of the Ed Emberley & Friends exhibit in L.A.
I would enjoy an entire album of Ed Emberley singing sea shanties, here we at least get a sample.
Showing posts with label Ed Emberley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ed Emberley. Show all posts
Friday, January 13, 2012
Thursday, March 10, 2011
the Zortian Chronicles
Brooklyn blogger Tara Rose Stromberg maintains the site unkoshergirl, which is just littered with drawings of Zortians out of Ed Emberley's Big Green Drawing Book. Apparently Tara has been drawing Wooflers and Fwaaps since she was a little girl!
See several childhood Zort drawings here, and see how we bumped into each other here. Poke around her blog and you'll see delightful Zort doodles all over the place!
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Poopsheet on Emberley Galaxy
Ed Howard reviews Emberley Galaxy at the Poopsheet Foundation site:
"These artists take a number of different approaches to giving Emberley a nod, and the resulting anthology is both entertaining in its own right and a fantastic summation of what makes its title subject’s work so exciting and enduring."
"These artists take a number of different approaches to giving Emberley a nod, and the resulting anthology is both entertaining in its own right and a fantastic summation of what makes its title subject’s work so exciting and enduring."
Monday, August 17, 2009
Make A World
I regret that this blog has been stagnant for so long, but I do hope to update more regularly from now on. I've got a dependable internet connection at home for the first time in a while.
Correcting the proofs and getting to to the printing stage has taken longer than I expected (I don't know what made me think printing would be the easy part), but Emberley Galaxy is in production now and I expect to have it this week.
In the meantime, you may be interested in reading up on the Make A World documentary that is being put together by the good people at Chicago's the Swiderski Institute:
http://swidinst.org/make-a-world-film/
As the title suggests, the movie focuses on Ed Emberley's Drawing Book: Make A World, perhaps the most influential of all his drawing books, certainly the most minimal and flexible in its designs.
Ed Emberley himself is in the film, and the crew also visited me and C. Spencer Yeh at the Art Damage Lodge in Cincinnati to talk about Emberley. Friends at Wire and Twine of Oxford, OH are also involved.
There's also a Make A World fan group for the film you can join on facebook.
Update: the Make A World film has been canceled.
Correcting the proofs and getting to to the printing stage has taken longer than I expected (I don't know what made me think printing would be the easy part), but Emberley Galaxy is in production now and I expect to have it this week.
In the meantime, you may be interested in reading up on the Make A World documentary that is being put together by the good people at Chicago's the Swiderski Institute:
http://swidinst.org/make-a-world-film/
As the title suggests, the movie focuses on Ed Emberley's Drawing Book: Make A World, perhaps the most influential of all his drawing books, certainly the most minimal and flexible in its designs.
Ed Emberley himself is in the film, and the crew also visited me and C. Spencer Yeh at the Art Damage Lodge in Cincinnati to talk about Emberley. Friends at Wire and Twine of Oxford, OH are also involved.
There's also a Make A World fan group for the film you can join on facebook.
Update: the Make A World film has been canceled.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Night's Nice
Little, Brown recently reissued a classic Barbara and Ed Emberley picture book from 1972 called Night's Nice. It's a great bedtime story in lovely blues and purples.
I'd love to see more vintage Emberley books get a classy reprint like this one.
I'd love to see more vintage Emberley books get a classy reprint like this one.
Emberley Tribute: Rina Ayuyang
Rina Ayuyang's comic is based on Ed Emberley's Thumbprint and Fingerprint drawing books.
This anthology was intended to be all black and white, but Rina's story will be in color because it has to be.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Emberley Tribute: Sam Henderson
See Sam Henderson's page at his blog:
http://themagicwhistle.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post.html
Sam's page is based on Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Weirdos.
http://themagicwhistle.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post.html
Sam's page is based on Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Weirdos.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Emberley Tribute: Endpapers by Matt Kish
Matt Kish's endpapers are based on an idea of mine: a spiral galaxy composed of Ed Emberley's drawing symbols and shapes.
Matt did a much better job of it than I could have managed.
Ed Emberley Classics
Most likely if you're an Ed Emberley fan you've come to love his work through his drawing instruction books. Or maybe someone read Go Away, Big Green Monster! out loud to you, or you checked Drummer Hoff out of the library every other week.
But Emberley has been drawing books for decades and has dozens of titles to his name, drawn in an array of styles.
This cool but confounding site has beautiful illustrations from several out of print Ed Emberley picture books. (Scroll down and click on the red icon next to each title.)
The spread shown above is from Wing On A Flea.
Emberley Tribute: Joe Kuth and David Paleo
David Paleo finished these battle comics based on my doodles. These pages include monsters and creeps from several Ed Emberley books, plenty from Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Weirdos.
Emberley Galaxy
I hope to finally have Emberley Galaxy: A Tribute to Ed Emberley available in just a couple of weeks.
It will cost you $12, it's 60 pages, 8 1/2" X 11", mostly in black and white, and features interpretations of Emberley from 19 different artists. Here's the role call:
Rina Ayuyang
Jeffrey Brown
Chris Cornwell
Warren Craghead
Toby Craig
Cansafis Foote
Jack Fraley
Stefan Gruber
Sam Henderson
Alex Holden
Dave Kiersh
Matt Kish
Joe Kuth
Doug Meyer
Dan Moynihan
David Paleo
Dalton Webb
C. Spencer Yeh
Dan Zettwoch
Ed Emberley is the artist and author responsible for an amazing series of drawing instruction books for kids that first appeared in the 70's, and have been staples on the shelves of libraries and bookstores ever since.
You may remember, like me, finding the Drawing Book of Animals or the Big Green Drawing Book on the shelves of the public library, or using whatever was available from the bookmobile, and drawing from them feverishly. Like me, many artists I know have learned a lot from these books and still enjoy having them around both for reference and for fun.
Many people will recognize Emberley's books without necessarily knowing his name, so if you're still in the dark you may want to check out previews at http://www.amazon.com/ , or see http://www.edemberley.com/ . Or better yet, just find the books themselves. Get the old editions, I do not recommend the current editions in botched vertical format.
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