Challis’ Friday favorites for 02/18/11

Here is a weekly feature called ‘Friday favorites’ where we highlight some of our favorite inspirations from this last week, enjoy.

Artist: Phil Noto, illustration

While attending the Ringling School of Design, Phil Noto began his career as an intern at Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida. After two more years of illustration study, he returned to Disney Animation as a clean-up artist. In 2001, Phil started his comic career as the cover artist for DC Comics’ Birds of Prey.

13 teenage turtles…

…of the mutant ninja variety; which, of course, are the best kind!

Starting in comic books, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became even more popular in the late ’80s and ’90s through cartoons, then through video games and movies. It is certainly a very successful franchise. I can even remember dressing up as Donatello for Halloween one year as a youngling. Fun stuff! Naturally, many fans equals much fan art. Enjoy!

11 jaw-dropping images of Jean Grey

Jean Grey has been known under the aliases Marvel Girl and later, Phoenix and Dark Phoenix, and is best known as one of five original members of the X-Men, for her relationship with Cyclops, and for her central role and transformation in the classic X-Men storyline, “The Dark Phoenix Saga”. Here are 11 jaw-dropping images of Jean Grey, from 11 amazing artists:

Artist: Jonatan Cantero, illustration

Jonatan Cantero is a spanish illustrator who focuses is on advertising, children’s artwork, and comic. Jonatan believes thinking creativity is the most important skill of an artist.