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This week’s sponsor giveaway comes from Carla Sonheim, one of our past Spring PikaPackage Project artists! What you didn’t know was at the time, she was waiting for her first book to come out: Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun. The book is already out and is filled with a year’s worth of assignments, projects, ideas, and techniques that will introduce more creativity and nonsense into your art and life!

Carla is offering one copy to ONE lucky Pikaland reader — just leave down your comment and we’ll pick out a winner after Tuesday, 21st September!

UPDATE: Commenting has now closed, thanks so much for participating. The winner of this giveaway is Jen H, as generated by random.org.

A couple of squiggly lines and funny faces won’t usually draw my attention — unless of course it’s over at Hyperbole and a Half where funny reigns and those stick figures serve to tell you a story in the fastest, quickest way possible.

I won’t lie — these characters aren’t the most fashionable around. They don’t look like they took a long time to draw, and they most certainly look like something a 5 year old drew up in Microsoft Paint. But that’s where the fun lies — because it’s so raw and mind-bendingly simple, Allie’s pictures manages to express a thousand words jokes with just a few simple strokes.

My current favorite? Level 3 from the article 4 levels of social entrapment. Take a look at that and tell me you can’t imagine the soundtrack to Psycho playing at the background.

Hilarious stuff!

I’ve written about Aussie based illustrator/designer Natalie Perkins before and I still can’t get enough of her lettering, mad technical compositional skillz, and overall cheeky attitude. She has this talent because she practices by doodling in magazines (Frankie to be exact), and teenage angst aside, that makes me heart her even more.

The men folk will soon understand the power of the paisley, and Natalie’s gonna tell ‘em how its done right.