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Monday, February 14, 2011

Don Kenn and the Awesome of Post-It Notes

Don Kenn makes fabulous drawings on Post-It Notes. I mean it’s really fabulous stuff with monsters and places, and barely-hinted characters. It’s kind of like Edward Gorey and the Monster Manual and some other stuff thrown in.

There are these pictures of these horrible monstrosities just on the verge of devouring, cursing, or carrying away the hapless human denizens of Kenn’s world.



His technique is gorgeous. The gesture of the drawings is perfect. But what really gets me is the subtle way in which each picture shows something happening. It’s kind of subtle at first, but it’s never just a picture of some monster, next to some thing. It’s a monster reacting to that thing, with an expression that might be ravenous, but might be something else, like sorrow, or longing, or dread. Each picture sets up a relationship and a story.

I love this stuff. I just had to say that. Go check out his blog for more!

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7 comments:

  1. JDJarvisFebruary 14, 2011 at 6:14 AM

    great stuff.

    I can picture a caption for the third one along the line of:

    "Foolish mortals dabbling in afairs best left alone? They went that way."

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  2. PaulFebruary 14, 2011 at 6:40 AM

    Yes! I've been enjoying his stuff for a long time. All his pieces have an air of dreadful expectancy.

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  3. Ed HFebruary 14, 2011 at 7:12 AM

    Holy moley. Thanks for the link.

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  4. Ed HFebruary 14, 2011 at 8:00 AM

    He found some creatures I used to see in nightmares and drew them: http://johnkenn.blogspot.com/2011/02/blog-post.html

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  5. UnknownFebruary 14, 2011 at 4:17 PM

    Wow. I love the post-its, but I REALLY LIKE THAT BACKGROUND. Where'd you get it, do you design them, can I have one?

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  6. UnknownFebruary 14, 2011 at 6:04 PM

    I think I could run a whole game based on these - use them instead of In a Wicked Age oracles. :)

    Plotspider, the background is the only successful result of a failed brilliant art project from some time back. Glad you like it! You're welcome to use it. Alas, I have no others like it, at least not currently.

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  7. UnknownFebruary 15, 2011 at 5:16 PM

    Wow! I absolutely love this artwork. Thanks for sharing the link. :)

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