Tomby Illustration / Emily Eibel

Emily Eibel

Emily Eibel

Emily Eibel

Emily Eibel

Emily Eibel is a Brooklyn-based illustrator who makes these beautiful stitched artworks. I believe she has perfected the process of drawing with string, with plenty of works to show for it as well.

And the most interesting of all is that not only is she good with a needle, she’s a vector god too — producing vector based illustration (that leans on the side of pixellated art) under another name: Tomby Illustration.

Emily Eibel

Emily Eibel

At first glance, her styles may seem to be vastly different from one another. But upon closer inspection, they share a common concept — one that is based on building up an illustration pixel by pixel; and the other stitch by stitch. One may be more organic and the other more geometrical, but oh what an eye she has!

John Casey

John Casey

John Casey

John Casey

John Casey draws up these pretty intriguing creatures (wearing suits, no less!) — I’m not sure if it has anything to do with the fact that he was born on Friday the 13th, although that would make for a really interesting study!

From his bio
_John Casey has been inventing creatures as soon as he was able to hold a crayon. Drawings that his mother saved from when he was only three years old reveal an obsession with the figure. The figures in these drawings show not only the distorted perceptions of a child, but a fascination with skulls, teeth, spirographic eyes, and invented body parts. This obsession with strange creatures continued throughout his youth. _

Oh, and look — stickers!

A collection a day

I stumbled a little late onto Lisa Congdon’s fabulous little project called A Collection A Day where she documents — either by photograph or by drawing — a collection of things. Started in January 2010, the project has already ended but will live on in the form of prints and also a soon-to-be-published book.

And of course if you’re obsessed about collections, a flick through Camilla Engman’s popular flickr group Organized Collection will help you justify the 59th kitchen ladle that you just bought at the flea market (and yes, buying it to add to your photography prop collection is a very valid reason!)