As you may know by now, I’m a fan of hand lettering and these small but impactful illustrations, I think, just take the art to the next level.
You may remember Dangerdust as the anonymous students at the Columbus College of Art and Design who snuck into a classroom each week and created beautiful chalk art. They would take famous quotes, found either through a Google search or a suggestion from a friend, draw up a rough sketch and then make a masterpiece using just chalk. (See here and here.)
The duo, who may now have graduated (no one knows for sure), recently started a new series called MicroQuotes. First, they draw by hand small-scale quotes almost always starting with pencil. Then, they color in their drawings either with colored pencils, watercolor, or regular paints.
I love their choice of quotes and all the thought behind choosing how to illustrate them; what medium they used or what colors they chose. My favorite quote out of the bunch? “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent van Gogh. Did you know that the famous artist suffered from mental illness? He had frequent episodes of depression, paralyzing anxiety and, according to some accounts, the symptoms of bipolar disorder (like me).
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