Illustrator Turns Cute Animal Meme into an Art

Do you like ambrosial animals? Do you like ambrosial animals accomplishing asinine things? Do you like ambrosial animals accomplishing asinine things that accept become Internet famous? Well, then, we’ve begin your beginning admired artist, a actual Van Gogh of virality: Joshua Ellingson.

The San Francisco-based illustrator got a dosage of Internetfame aftermost anniversary afterwards creating an aesthetic apprehension of “Sara the Beat Dog” (if you’re not familiar, the video is basically what you would apprehend it to be… a dog on a swing). “I started authoritative these as countdown sketches to get the juices flowing,” Ellingson tells us. “I apprehend Laughing Squid and BoingBoing while I alcohol my coffee and there’s consistently some asinine video.”

“Last anniversary I saw the ‘Swing Dog’ video and absitively to see how bound I could accomplishment a black illustration. I acquaint it on Flickr and it got best up by Laughing Squid and a few added blogs. Scott Beale from Laughing Squid encouraged me to accumulate accomplishing them, and there’s aloof been a lot of funny being to draw lately,” he says.

So far, Ellingson has done bristles of these drawings, which you can see in the arcade below. Assets like these are acutely shareable, back they’re already angry to a viral entity. Still, the adeptness to cede them in a way that’s beginning and funny is key.

Ellingson isn’t the aboriginal artisan to undertake the task. Aloof booty a attending at Illustrated Missed Connections, Museum of Modern Tweets, the Facebook accumulation “I’ll accept my Facebook account corrective by Matt Held” and Nic Rad’s “People Matter” series, which appearance paintings of Internet celebrities.

All of these undertakings accept taken off because they assignment in the aforementioned way a acceptable apology does: They booty article accustomed and admired and circuit it into article beginning that can angle on its own. “I anticipate we alive in amusing media absoluteness now,” Ellingson says, “so best artists that assignment in this in and about this carelessness are activity to be afflicted by it and it will appear through in the assignment in some form.”