A Beginner's Ukulele Resource Kit

Handy links to learning the ukulele online.

  • 18th
  • May
  • 2012
ukehunt: itsamegina: A ukulele isn’t as fun, unless you’ve a got a friend to play for. Ukulele Man by *Mr—Jack

ukehunt:

itsamegina:

A ukulele isn’t as fun, unless you’ve a got a friend to play for.

Ukulele Man by *Mr—Jack

Tagged: Uke ukulele illustration

Self Portrait With Ukulele (by Vacon Sartirani)

Self Portrait With Ukulele (by Vacon Sartirani)

Tagged: Uke ukulele illustration ink

  • 16th
  • May
  • 2012
Hand Painted Ukuleles & Guitars by Lichty Guitars It’s rare that I’m smitten by a sexy paint job, but something about these… (via rapidrivoltasilenziosa)

Hand Painted Ukuleles & Guitars by Lichty Guitars

It’s rare that I’m smitten by a sexy paint job, but something about these…

(via rapidrivoltasilenziosa)

Tagged: Illustration uke ukulele luthiers custom Lichty.

  • 2nd
  • May
  • 2012

“Yosemite Ukulele Rangers” Dancing Bear Mascot (iPad Brushes Sketch)

As good as it is for sketching on the iPad (and it’s awesome for this), Brushes’s playback and movie export features make me happier still. I’m frankly too embarrassed to own up to the number of times I’ve replayed this.

Playback imparts a more certain, steady, confident, and sure-handed authority to my sketching — up until the point when I draw four different wonky park ranger hats (nice 70’s “Huggy-bear” pimp hat, though), then you see the way I really work — carving images out of air and hoping it goes somewhere that I like.

Brushes for iPad and iPhone ($7.99 on iTunes)

I’ve posted some alternate ukulele playing bear sketches over on pizza.

(by buzcarter)

Tagged: uke ukulele Yosemite bear dancing park ranger hat Illustration iPad

The “Yosemite Ukulele Rangers” Dancing Bear Mascots (iPad Brushes Sketches)

Doodling some ukulele playin’ bears using Brushes iPad app while up in Yosemite National Park. I definitely recommend both the app and bringing your uke to Yosemite, perhaps not in that order.

(via Pizza By The Slice)

Tagged: uke ukulele ipad Brushes Illustration Yosemite bear park ranger

  • 13th
  • April
  • 2012

Felix The Cat plays what appears to be a two-stringed banjo (1930’s sheet music cover boasts “with Ukulele Arrangement”) and, well, rocks out on a more conventional ukulele (retouched illustration from a 1973 French bimonthly magazine “Felix Le Chat”).

The quite short theme’s (jingle really) lyrics are by Alfred Bryan, with music by Pat Wendling and Max Kortlander and, surprisingly, I’ve not been able to find good uke chords for this venerable earworm.

(via VinMag & Ukulele.fr forums)

Tagged: Felix the Cat France Sheetmusic uke ukulele Felix Le Chat Illustration

  • 8th
  • April
  • 2012

Illustrator Micah Chock’s preliminary poster comp for this year’s Ukulele Guild of Hawaii’s Exhibition and Conference.

I agree with the encouraging feedback from his fellow designers (in comments): the art’s “too guitar”, not enough “ukeness”, and the typography misdirects (has the wrong emphasis) with “Ukulele” getting lost. My “squint test” says “ANNUAL HAWAII … guitar concert?”

High marks to Micah for bravely putting out an early work for comment and the community for helpful constructive criticism. Am anxious to see the final result.

It’s also quite clear that Micah’s up to the task (see his artwork “Ukes for Kekis” — yeah, the type has issues) and is working through presenting a more serious tone for this client (the exhibition). The UGH’s event will showcase scores of handmade one-of-a-kind ukuleles so his challenge — to graphically snapshot the luthiers’ craftsmanship while conveying uke-itude — is a truly tough gig.

Check out Micah aka “Donakfied’s” deviantart portfolio.

Event Info

Tagged: Donkdafied Micah Chock illustration poster uke ukulele Hawaii art

  • 28th
  • March
  • 2012
“The Id and the Ukulele” Mock Textbook My efforts at going paperless by moving all my uke “music” onto my iPad continues — with addition of some homemade book covers, introducing some much needed color and variation to iBook’s shelves (without ‘em all the icons look identical). (via Pizza By The Slice)

“The Id and the Ukulele” Mock Textbook

My efforts at going paperless by moving all my uke “music” onto my iPad continues — with addition of some homemade book covers, introducing some much needed color and variation to iBook’s shelves (without ‘em all the icons look identical).

(via Pizza By The Slice)

Tagged: uke ukulele books Illustration textbook Retro

  • 16th
  • March
  • 2012
“Ukulele Ike” Pixel Art Portrait by Ben Lane I’m a loyal appreciator of 8-bit music, pixel art, and ukes (duh) thus Ben’s Cliff Edwards pleases that inner geek tremendously. Truly grokking pixel art’s challenges really requires attempting it yourself (I did, I failed). Like Japanese calligraphy or two-color illustration or a fan strum it’s a different beast, valued mainly by its practitioners.

“Ukulele Ike” Pixel Art Portrait by Ben Lane

I’m a loyal appreciator of 8-bit music, pixel art, and ukes (duh) thus Ben’s Cliff Edwards pleases that inner geek tremendously. Truly grokking pixel art’s challenges really requires attempting it yourself (I did, I failed). Like Japanese calligraphy or two-color illustration or a fan strum it’s a different beast, valued mainly by its practitioners.

Tagged: Ben Lane Cliff Edwards Illustration Ukulele Ike character pixel uke ukulele caricature

  • 18th
  • February
  • 2012

Illustrator and character designer Juan Molinet’s “alter-ego” illustration of David Kamp, “a furry musical beast sitting in a world of his own.”

As good as this kazoo-nosed, ukulele-horned, furry, Seuss-ian critter is, it’s Juan’s Fake Vintage Japanese Ad Characters that steal the show on his site “Le Bureau des Monstres” (The Ministry of Monsters).

I like robots, ancient cultures, toys, rubberhose animation, food, surrealism, pop culture of any country, kaiju, destruction, obscure things and much more!

(via Buz)

Tagged: Illustration Japan character kaiju uke ukulele mascot