Six Revisions

If you’re a good artist, and you want to show your skills, I’m all for it. But as a “style” I’m bored of this. It’s like an old joke.

spellathon

Yes, hand drawn sketches are no doubt getting famous in WEB industry very quickly, infact some people out there are making very good sketches to convey some messages that can’t be delivered by any other means.

jack

Nice list, but I think you missed A List Apart’s Kevin Cornells’ illustrative contributions to their articles!

jack

I take it back – BearSkinRug is Keven’s personal website. Good job!

Adam

cool post but you missed the most famous of them all
http://whytheluckystiff.net/ and his notorious book http://poignantguide.net/

Dan

You’re missing one of my favorite ones: http://www.rob-sheridan.com/sketchblog/

Nobama

I was planning on trying some hand drawn designs but with a stylus and pad… does that count?

Jacob Gube

@Nobama: It doesn’t matter what you use, as long as it looks good right? You can use Illustrator, with a mouse, using AI pencil brushes or something: what matters is the end result, not the tool you used.

James Martin

Good stuff. Rittenhouse Petis another good example.

Torley

» http://www.flickr.com/photos/radiosignals/3060220721/

I like many of these, handwritten stuff — even if it’s a font simulating real scribing — adds character and personality. Especially if it’s YOUR writing, and hopefully not at the expense of being illegible.

Also have a look at some of the designs in virtual world Second Life, such as the aptly-named Scribble:

And Leafy!

» http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&MerchantID=170333

ron

if i never see that played out 3 years ago, self consciously crude, 3d block lettering style again ill be happy.

Joseph

what about http://www.givemethatdollar.com?

Amanda

I think the hand drawn images are brillant and show the effort an artist/designer takes into presenting themselves as “unique”. Two artists never draw alike right? Wonderful list. I enjoed all the works shown.

hehu

http://www.9point8studios.com is another example :P

Michael Nobbs

These are just wonderful, I’ve got a busy morning ahead looking around them all. Thank you!

Two Socks

While a nice round up of this style of web design, I am affraid iam with Matt on this…its old and boring.

virtual web symphony

I always have tried such cool themes on my website but I found that over a period of time I lose interest in them probably the ones with good images stays there for long.

Patternhead

Some great examples here. Thanks

taylan

Great list. Thanks…

Tom Ross

I’ve seen a few roundups for this style, but this is the best one yet. I hadn’t seen most of these sites, so it was great to check out some new artwork.

Danh ba web 2.0

Excellent post. Thanks a lot !

bushahr

quite an interesting collection. though some of them are strictly ‘mediocre’. good collection nonetheless. one addition to the list could be this site that i stumbled upon a couple of weeks back—> http://www.tiffinboxindia.com/geekyghosh/

Jan

Thanks for including me on this list guys! :)

Sean

http://whytheluckystiff.net has done this for a while, not to mention his “poignant guide to ruby” – http://poignantguide.net

Liz Gebhardt

Great post.
Two other examples:
http://www.thinkingoutloud.com
http://www.everythingsanoffer.com

Tony Ramos

In the video realm, there’s http://commoncraft.com/

kevadamson

Nice examples. “Hand drawn style” totally floats my boat (and is also the style of my own site) :)

Jonathan Stark

Wow, what’s with the cooler-than-thou haters? Maybe if the design snobs here could deign to grace the proletariate with some links to what *they* think is the bleeding edge of web design, it would be a little less obnoxious. Sheesh.

Allie

Awesome drawings

Kimby

The hand-drawn trend is starting to remind me of the time when vector flourishes ruled the earth. But if it’s done outstandingly well, it will still be an outstanding piece of design.

Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach

And don’t forget http://www.nicky510.com ! Not old and boring by a longshot.

Oink!

Thanks for the mention!!!! :-)

jane

The hand-drawn trend is starting to remind me of the time when vector flourishes ruled the earth. But if it’s done outstandingly well, it will still be an outstanding piece of design..

Andrew McKinney

http://andrewmckinney.com/portfolio

I tried the “low-fi/hi-fi prototype” on the app I created for my portfolio. It kinda worked, but I realized I’m not a lo-fi guy :)

My take-away: Hand drawn websites are tough to do! They are graphically and technically intense, and require a level of consistency that demands great effort for the designer.

Timothy

Nice list! Delicioused

Jutta

Great idea!

Radek

Hey you may want to change “Grupa Firm” to “Values – Grupa Firm Doradczych”. Right now it means “Group of companies”. A tip from Polish side of the web :)

Ste

I do really like hand drawn websites, but I wish some people would be more creative with the lettering, there’s a lot of 3D sans-serifed fonts & they always look the same!

webhosting

these are some awesome designs, one negative point: not all of the sites arez optimal to view on a large screens, they get messed up :-(

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