I had a pretty good “This Week in Twitter” post cooking up on my laptop; I was trying to compose it in a trial of MarsEdit to see if I wanted to take the plunge and buy that thing for managing the ol’ blog, but it decided to eat about five days’ worth of updates [...]
I want to start a new Lego Gaga tonight; I might do this red carpet dress from this year’s Grammy’s. The Hello Kitty one was really fun because of how colorful it was, and this seems like a solid followup.
I don’t post about work stuff very often here because, well, it’s work and the other stuff I post about here is fun. But I did two things today that I thought were fun, so I wanted to share them. First, this silly little image is going to be a handout at Bemidji’s Women’s Expo; [...]
Somebody scanned and posted JPEGs of Charlton Comics’ “The Comic Book Guide for the Artist • Writer • Letterer” from 1973. I made a handy-dandy PDF of the images for easier consumption. Download it if you wish; it even includes the old Code of the Comic Magazine Association of America, which is a great read [...]
I’m going to try again to kick out a few sketchbook pages tonight, and hopefully will come up with some results I’m more pleased with. I’m going to switch reference books, just to change things up a little, and see if that helps. I need mannikin practice, and I really like the look of the [...]
Continue reading about Friday night drawing, or “trying again”
Mel went out with some friends last night, so I sat down and tried to kick out a couple of pages of drawing practice in my sketchbook. I did get the two pages in, but everything I tried to draw was *terrible*. Everything was a step in the wrong direction from the things I was [...]
Continue reading about Drawing last night; took a step backward
Late last week, an artist I follow on Twitter named Ryan Stegman (@ryanstegman) posted a small image from an old art book by a guy named Andrew Loomis on constructing heads. He said it was still the best way to construct a head, from a book published around the 1940s. Loomis’ books are long out [...]
“The One Made Out of Hello Kitties.”, originally uploaded by AndyBartlett. The latest entry in my Lego Gaga project, “The One Made Out of Hello Kitties.” This is my favorite one so far; I just love how this turned out. Like this? You can become a fan of Lego Gaga on Facebook.
There will be a new Lego Gaga out later today. I drew it last night and started coloring it; it’s the best one I’ve done yet. I think you’ll like it when you see it. have a busy day today, with yard work and the delivery of our new dryer (and subsequent cram session to [...]
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