Three Skulls

Nick Newton in Calgary, Canada sent us this skull trilogy.  He said: "I am loving your site. There are many amazing artists out there. I'm submitting three skulls - two small clay skulls that I made - one,
more abstract, out of red clay, and another out of white. I'm also including a notebook sketch of a skull I made."

Stampede C says:

Thank you for sharing your work with us, and also thank you for your kind words about the site.  Congratulations, you also now have bragging rights as one of our amazing artists that we featured here.

[BONUS] The Gift of Skulls - Papercuts

I ran into my friend Corey Marie at a wonderful local street fair and she gave me this awesome little recycled notebook with her original illustration on the front...

She sells this design and many other awesome things at her Etsy store so be sure and check them all out  HERE.

Primary Skull

Raye wrote: “I am sending you this schoolhouse skull because I love your site.”

Adjunct C says:

Here at Skull-A-Day we subscribe to a no skull left behind policy. If we do our jobs this skull will be able to move on to college rule in the future. Just this week around the web I am hearing people talk about their children going back to school. So it looks like summer is almost over. Thank you for submitting your work for us to share and keep us in mind when your skull graduates.

Oh and it is Friday so here is a notebook flashback from the original project.

Notebook Skulls

Angela Ramirez in Alaska sent us this: “Hey there Skull-A-Day folks. Love the site, been checking it out for years now. Here are some skull doodles for you. I do them while waiting for the doc, for the bus, and while I wake up at my local coffee hang out. Thanks for the time and effort you put into the site. ”



Contiguous C says:

No thanks needed its what we do. However, thank you for taking the time to submit this body of work to us, we love seeing the work that you do, and we also love knowing that our fans are aging with us as the years click by one Skull-A-Day at at time.

[BONUS] Skull Notebook In Use

Adin (aka @vesper385) recently got one of my Modofly journals (featuring my Interlocking Skull pattern) and sent this awesome picture of herself with it underneath a War of the Worlds tripod in Woking, Surrey, UK!

Bookbinding Skull

This gorgeous looking leather birthday card was made by Nysa for her husband for his 40th birthday(he was born on Halloween). It's a 4" x 6" card that is "Orange French Cape goatskin with onlays of silver, black and white calf. Tooled in Palladium and blind on the back."



She also tells us that , "In hand bookbinding, it is traditional to practice learning tooling and onlay techniques on a leather covered "plaque", which this sort of simulates". You can see pictures of the process that she followed here. Happy belated birthday to the lucky man who received this. VERY nicely done, Nysa!

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New Skull-A-Day Notebook

The fine folks at Modofly have added another Skull-A-Day design to their amazing collection of artists' notebooks! The 278. Utenskull or Skullverware image is available on their fabric covered 5" x 8" notebooks with your choice of lined or unlined paper. Get the details and buy them HERE.


You can see photos of my other notebooks they sell HERE.

p.s. I'm considering offering some more of my designs for sale this way, so if there are more of the original skulls you'd like to see on a notebook let me know!

Inspiration Skull

9 year old Ryan was inspired by the Skulls book purchased by her mother.

Ryan's mom wrote: "... we've had a lot of fun with it [the book] in our family. I have a 9 year old daughter who was inspired to create this from a folded piece of notebook paper. I thought it was genius. Her little brother managed to rip part of it...what would be a tooth, but other than that you can see it's symmetrical. I thought it was pretty impressive. You should notice the feminine qualities in this skull. She has somewhat of a do and girly shaped eyes. It's definitely a girl. "


College Ruled C says:

Congratulations Ryan on your first skull submission to Skull-A-Day. If you are not already aware our beloved Skullmaster's first skull was also a cut paper skull. Ryan don't forget to try you hand at one of the monthly contests we are doing this year. You can find the current one here. We would love to see what else may inspire you.

Speaking of the Skullmaster, if you are near Richmond, VA you need to go check out some the origional skulls in person during his show at the Quirk Gallery. The Show opens tonight (7-3-09) with special night hours from 7:00PM-10:00PM.

Skull-A-Day Notebooks Photos!

Just got these lovely photos of the new Skull-A-Day notebooks made by Modofly and I had to share...
(links to buy them are below each image)

Lines

Ornamental

Pattern

Camo

New Skull-A-Day Notebooks from Modofly!

The fine folks at Modofy, who previously brought you the lovely laser-cut Moleskine notebooks have just relaunched their site, with a ton of great new products, including four Skull-A-Day designs! The new notebooks have full-color printed fabric covers that feature wraparound art from dozens of amazing artists. Of course I would hope you'd consider buying one (or more) or my designs, but really all of the books are great and the money goes to help a small business stay afloat and of course a portion goes to the artists as well!

You can check out my four current designs here (front and back art shown):

Camo Pattern

Tesselated Pattern

Stripes

Ornament(al)

Here's what the finished notebooks (from some of the other artists) look like...

188. (Back To) Skull Notebook

Erasered Notebook Cover (image approx. 3.5 in x 5.5 in). I wasn't sure if they had changed the formulation of notebook covers from when I was a kid, but happily this technique from middle school still worked on a new one. Did you do this to your notebooks when you were a kid? Do kids today still do this?