Illustration Rally's first ever event, PAINT IT! MAKE IT!

We are extremely excited to announce our very first event! So we are getting together with some really great artists and putting on something special for our great community, and you know it's gonna be good when we have live drawing, origami, cakes and zine making, where you can bind and customise your own zine with the work of some of the hottest illustrators around! Everything we raise from this event will be donated to our Japan tsunami appeal on JustGiving!

When:
Saturday the 25th of June 10am til 5pm

Where:
The Book Club, 100-106 Leonard Street, City of London, Greater London EC2A 4XS

What:

Live Drawing
Keeping you in the mood all day the awesome Mr Millerchip and Kristian Jones will be creating some slick visuals and giving us some original art before your eyes!

Pop Up Shop
Thanks to our amazing community we have some fabulous pieces of art on our charity shop on etsy, and we will be bringing it to life in all it's charity goodness at the event. Browse enjoy and buy, just with everything else it all goes to charity.

Origami Folding

Take part in some tradition and get your fold on, learn a skill, make paper happy and take home something sweet.

How to wear kimono and tea ceremony

Join how to wear kimono workshop and experience traditional Japanese tea ceremony.

Charity Raffle, Part 2!

Need another chance to pick up exclusive, one in a million , designer kitchen ware for only a pound? Then look no further than the live section of our charity raffle where 5 more magnificent tea towels from the super lovely ToDryFor will find loving homes. Check the designs available from Paint it! Make it! updates!

T-shirt Available from No Guts No Glory

Designed by the event live artist Mr Millerchip! The T-shirt "Dunkun - Organic White T" will be available at the event and if you want to learn a little more about the wonderful Millerchip you can read about him in our live artist feature.

New art products to test! Kuretake Pens

Try out some of the hottest new products from amazing pen maker Kuretake. Some amazing pens, you can use in really cool ways, you may even drop your posca, so check it out!

Cakes
There will be cakes! They will be awesome, and you will be able to get your hands on some great munch to keep you fuelled for the day, may contain nuts, will contain tasty, what more could you want!

Music
Music has been careful chosen for your listening pleasure by DJ halwo SAKAMOTO, DJ CHINEN and DJ 柳 (Yanagi). It is an ecxclectic mix of Jpop, Jelectro and techno all mixed by Japanese DJ's to keep you in the mood for a party.

Zine Making

Assemble and bind your very own zine, our zine making is the most interactive collaborative event we can make it so feel free to bring your own bits and bobs to share, from coloured paper ribbons and pens you can bring anything you like to add to your customisation. Our zine is going to be A5 so if you want to, you can bring along your own artwork for people to bind, feel free to sign it or even just bind it into your own zine, the zine is BW so even photocopies would be fun. We will be providing plenty of extra cute bits and bobs too. We have a wonderful selection of artists for your zine making pleasure.

Uberkraaft
Ben the illustrator
Aaron Miller
Gaia Bordicchia
Yupyland
Andy Coucil
Tom Bagshaw
Bubblefriends
Bubi Au Yeung
Dave Bain
Gemma Correll
Bex Glover
Lou Lou & Tummie
Mr Millerchip
the boy fitz hammond 
Toy Factory
Lesley Barnes
Seb Burnett
Jonathan Edwards
Fon The Pern
Ruben Ireland
Thereza Rowe
Robert Shadbolt
The Tree House Press

Carlton Hibbert

Erica Sharp

Lea Wade

Natsuki Otani

Stephen Chan

And finally:

We have to thank all the lovely people who made this possible, the companies who gave us support, plugging away or sending us wonderful donations, the artists who gave up their time creating the zine and our wonderful community who has been with us all the way, submitted wonderful work, donated amazing pieces and of course spread the love like no other people could. Many thanks to you all, we hope to see you all soon!

Feel free to repost this on your blog or site and use the hash tag #paintitmakeit on twitter to spread the word about this, and facebook event page is here!

Thanks from:

Natsuki Otani

Stephen Chan

Erica Sharp

Lea Wade

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Royal Wedding and Easter Rally

It's that time of year where the weather in the northern hemisphere grudgingly begins to warm up and with the rising temperatures and the prospect of being able to go outdoors it is a time to celebrate. And to kick off the festivities here on the Rally we have two brand new open submission rallies for you running concurrently. So give us your best and we'll give you a place to shine. As always all your rights are your own and you will be promoted in the usual places. So without further ado, here are our new rallies, submission is on throughout the rest of April.

Royal Wedding Rally
Those of you with your eye on the news or for those in England with their eyes open, you may have noticed there is a royal wedding going on! So we want your take on the event. Whether it's a happy tribute or a sardonic swipe, wherever you are in the world it would be great to know what you think of the whole thing,

Easter Rally
Festivals are always great things and this one comes with chocolate eggs. What could be more perfect than the unison of ancient festivities, death, rebirth and commercialism, so we are looking for another great visual response from you guys, it could be a deep polemic on the state of the world or a bunny with a bow, you can never have enough bunnies. ;)

Submission Guidelines 

• For the Royal Wedding rally it would be great if you could give us a line in your submission email saying where you are from and what you, or your country is making of this. We'd love to know!.
• Any form of art is welcome, illustration, photography, graphic design, animation and more.
• Low res jpeg file please (72 dpi is good enough) so my old pc which has been giving me blue screen ever so often won't explode.
• Don't forget to send us the links to your portfolio sites, (blog, facebook, flickr and etc) if you are sending us your product, send us a link to the pages you are selling your products.
• Send us a link to your twitter account if you have one, so I can promote you on twitter effectively.
• Please send your work to illustrationrally[at]hotmail.co.uk with the title "Royal Wedding Submission" or "Easter Rally Submission"

Looking forward to seeing some modern classics guys! 

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東北地震への募金を呼びかけるイラスト募集！

日本語のブログポストは初めてになります、Illustration rallyを運営する在英日本人イラストレーターの大谷です、こんにちは！


このブログは元々大学を卒業した後に課題を何か自分で作り出そう、絵を描くのを楽しもうというアイデアの元に始めたものです。それが徐々に参加アーティストの輪が広まり、今では３００人ほどの人たちが私達の出すお題の元に作品を発表しています。現在ではアーティストへのインタビューにイベント紹介等、若いアーティストのPRに役立てるよう毎日更新してる次第です。


東北地震のニュースを見た時は心臓が止まる思いで、東京にいる家族や友人が心配で泣きっぱなしでした。でも自分で何か出来る事があることにやっと頭がまわり、このブログを通して「日本、がんばれ」のメッセージをこめたイラストを募集する事にしました。 


募集要項は以下になります。

• テーマは「Don't give up, Japan」「がんばれ日本」、希望や愛をモチーフに自由に好きな作品を作ってください。写真などイラストレーション以外の作品形態も可です。このブログの為に制作された作品である必要はありません。
• 応募は何点でも可です。
• 72dpi程度の低解像度のものを送ってください。
• ポートフォリオサイトや、ブログ、twitterなどお持ちでしたらリンクもメールに明記して下さい。
• 応募先は illustrationrally[at]hotmail.co.uk　になります。
• 締め切りはありません、２０１１年通してラリーを続けていきます。
• twitterでこの募集に関してつぶやく際は是非是非#ganbarenipponのタグを使って広めてください。

もう気づいた方もいらっしゃるかと思いますが、このブログには各国の読者用に主に赤十字への募金のリンクを張ってあります。そして今後「がんばれ、日本」に応募されてきたイラストをポストするたび個別の記事にもチャリティへのリンクをつけます。なので作品が増えるほど訪問する人が増え、募金をしてもらえる可能性もあがります。


JustGivingというオンラインで誰にでも募金を募るページが作れるサイトにも参加しておりますので、私達の活動に共感して下さった方がいればこちらから、またはサイドバーにあるリンクからクレジットカード、デビットカードまたペイパルで募金が出来ます。このページに募金されたものは自動的にJapan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fundを通してInternational Medical Corps, Save the Childrenその他のオーガナイゼーションに送られることになります。誰でも気軽にチャリティを始められるサイトですので、英語のわかる方はサイトを見てみると面白いと思います。


今後はアート作品の寄付の募集、日本に縁のあるアーティストを招いての特別なラリーを通して募金を集め赤十字へ送る予定でおります。


また、この記事の転載、サイトへのリンクはご自由にどうぞ！以下のバナーもどんどん使ってください。サイズが合わないようでしたらメールいただければリサイズして新たなものを送らせていただきます。

　

Illustration Rallyはfacebook、 twitterでもフォローできます。

また私個人への連絡はこちらからどうぞ！@nat_o

これからしばらく不安な日々が続くと思いますが、日本をサポートしたいと思っている人は世界中に沢山います。ポジティブに上を向いていきましょう！私もイギリスから私にできる限りの事をしていきたいと思います。

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Portrayal March!

Hope everyone is well, March is still pretty freezing isn't? I've been having an awful cold for over 10 days and it sucks. Anyways, we had an amazing success with our Valentine's Day event, we hit over 10,000 pv in February and I hope everyone who submitted their work had good exposure too.   

So what should we do in March? I say let's do "Portrait Rally"! 


We decided to have different themes for each week as having subjects is our style, but I hope everyone can find something interesting from one of them... 

Graham Coxon by Natsuki Otani

Ideal dinner party guests: 7th to 13th March 
Please draw David Lynch, Nick Cave, Björk or Marianne Faithfull 
Draw one or more of them if you want! 


SF Films: 14th to 20th March 
Any SF film related portraits, it can be Steven Spielberg, Roy Batty from Blade Runner or even the prawns from District 9!


British Music: 21st to 27th March
Any British music related portraits! Beatles, Sex Pistols, Radiohead... hmm maybe Simon Cowell is more iconic nowadays, he does have amazing hair.


Use your creativity freely to draw amazing portraits but please follow our simple guidelines set out below, so I don't confuse myself too badly sorting everyone's submissions out.

Submission Guidelines 

• Don't forget to tell me who you drew and non offensive art please, cheeky is ok but no thank you to nasty stuff. We don't wan't be sued by Simon Cowell.
• Any form of art is welcome, illustration, photography, graphic design, animation and more.
• Low res jpeg file please (72 dpi is good enough) so my old pc which has been giving me blue screen ever so often won't explode.
• Don't forget to send us the links to your portfolio sites, (blog, facebook, flickr and etc) if you are sending us your product, send us a link to the pages you are selling your products.
• Send us a link to your twitter account if you have one, so I can promote you on twitter effectively.
• Deadline for each themes is each week's Sunday.
• Please send your work to illustrationrally[at]hotmail.co.uk with the title "Portrait March Submission"

So get cracking and let's have fun!


Natsuki x

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Valentine's Day submissions now open!

Its that beautiful bitter-sweet time of the year where we have an excuse or direct orders to drop our guard and get that little bit softer, so IR is pleased to announce that we are now open for all your Valentine's love whether its light hearted, romantic, passionate or dark we want your art now!

As we are all about promoting you, seasonal events are our way of having fresh work and showing as many illustrators as we can.

So here's the drill, just like all our previous seasonal events for which we had some truly beautiful illustrations, we have a few simple guidelines which are set out below.

Illustration by Abi Daker 

This illustration is available for sale from here!

Submission Guidelines 

• Anyone can submit their work.
• Any form of art is welcome, illustration, photography, graphic Design, animation and more.
• Low res jpeg file please so I have some space left on my almost fossilised pc!
• Don't forget to send us the links to your portfolio sites, if you are sending us your product, send us a link to the pages you are selling your products.
• Send us your twitter name if you have one, so I can promote you on twitter effectively.
• Deadline is Valentines day!
• Please send your work to illustrationrally@hotmail.co.uk

So get cracking! and lets feel the love!

 

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Christmas submissions are now open!

Illustration by Natsuki Otani (done in 5 mins!lol)

Hello everyone, I can't believe it's already December and I'm sure everyone is feeling merry by now! Have you finished all the Christmas shopping? I almost have, it's a never ending but happy task, isn't it?

For us creatives, it's THE best time to promote yourself and sell products to many many people!

So just like we did in Halloween, we are looking for Christmas themed artwork from all over the world, and here are the submission guidelines.

Submission Guideline 

• Anyone can submit their work.
• Any form of art is welcome, illustration, photography, graphic Design, animation and more.
• Low res jpeg file please so I have some space left on my almost fossilised pc!
• Don't forget to send us the links to your portfolio sites, if you are sending us your product, send us a link to the pages you are selling your Christmas products.
• Send us your twitter name if you have one, so I can promote you on twitter effectively.
• Deadline is Boxing day!
• Please send your work to illustrationrally@hotmail.co.uk

Pretty simple, right? :) We are really looking forward to seeing your Christmas art, and hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!

Cheers!

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Here comes Halloween!

Illustration by Natsuki Otani

Hello everyone, this is the first ever news post on this blog!

Before announcing the news, I'd like to thank you all for the support you've given to our blog, we couldn't keep this blog going without you readers, followers and amazing artists. I'm so so proud of how this blog turned out and the wonderful community around Illustration Rally. I really hope that we can keep making you happy with our posts and give the opportunity to share fresh artwork from artists all over the world.

Well, enough of that, here is our news!:)

Halloween event

This will start from the 1st to the 31st October, you can send us any Halloween related artwork eg. Illustration, Photography, Graphic Design, Animation and I will post artwork I get with the links to your website/blog daily! You can share your Halloween related products even, so this is the perfect opportunity to promote your stuff.

There is no restriction for the submissions as long as it's Halloween related, it can be new work or something you've made already, and anyone can join this, pro, amateur, students or your kids!:D

This is to enjoy and share the joy and the terror of Halloween and give artists an opportunity to share their fantastic work with everyone.

Please send your work to illustrationrally [at] hotmail.co.uk with the link to your portfolio site, we are really looking forward to seeing your art!

Thaaaaanks and get cracking,

Illustration Rally x

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