28 December 2007 // Sketch: Spell-caster
And thus begins a month of foreshortening sketches.
The front arm looks okay but the back arm isn't as foreshortened as i want it to be.
Labels: female, figure, foreshortening
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27 December 2007 // Sketch: Kitsune Dom
I think i ought to spend a whole month or so doing sketches which involve foreshortening in some way or another. I could use the practise. 0 comments
26 December 2007 // Sketch: Hermits United
Doctor Who fans will get this before anyone else.
Got some new pens for Christmas; don't quite have the hang of them yet. And spent more time trying to figure them out than making the drawing actually look good. Tomorrow will be better, i think. 0 comments
25 December 2007 // Sketch: Santa's Present
Letter from child to Santa:
Dear Santa,
My Daddy is very worried about Global Warming. Could you please fix it?
- Virginia
Response from Santa:
Dear Virginia,
Tell your daddy to go live in an arctic desert for a few centuries before he complains about global warming. I ain't lettin' go of my tropical paradise.
- Santa
Merry Christmas, everybody, and remember to use your family's most high-mileage car while going to Grandma's house - we gotta cool things down before them elves get the idea to start slacking off.
Labels: female, figure, machine
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24 December 2007 // Sketch: Kiru, sort of.
Started off as a sketch of an alien character from a story i wrote some time ago… and then went through a series of changes including Magical Goddess, Jungle Girl, and Anti-Arachnid Super-Hero.
Imaginary characters are like four-year-olds; sometimes the only way to get them to stay still long enough to draw them is to catch 'em sleeping. 0 comments
23 December 2007 // Sketch: M for Москва
I'm actually not sure how common the "M" hand symbol is in Moscow - i've only ever seen it once.
Then again, i've only been to Moscow once, for one day, two and a half years ago. And that one day was not exactly spent hanging with Muskovite hip-hop elite.
But - i don't know of any hand signs for St. Petersburg. And i had to do something to celebrate finally getting my hands on the latest copy of Time Magazine. 0 comments
22 December 2007 // Sketch: Уф!
I love cold weather but some of the other aspects of winter - i.e., half-melted piles of snow which re-freeze into large, sloping masses of ice - i could do without. 0 comments
21 December 2007 // Sketch: Медведь + Bloggerificness
I'm evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they're letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.
It covers:
- The best blogging techniques.
- How to get traffic to your blog.
- How to turn your blog into money.
I'll let you know what I think once I've had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it's still free.
^ copied-and-pasted. I don't typically "snag" unless i'm wearing a woolly sweater. I'm more of a glomper. ^_^
But, i would like to turn this into a bit more than just posting a picture every day, and hey. Free blogging class. Thus, i shall glomp it. 0 comments
20 December 2007 // Sketch + News: Still alive
Oi, haven't posted in a while.
Haven't done Illustration Friday for a while, either - but i've got a new screen-capture programme, and i think i might make a video of the next digital picture i do (which will likely be next week's Illustration Friday). Of course it depends at least partly on how much memory the programme takes up while it's running, if it makes Photoshop lag too much it'll be pretty self-defeating.
May be making the switch from Blogger to WP soon, because WP has built-in Pages which will make changes to the layout significantly easier. Tried to get it working already, and had it going good for a while before accidentally breaking it, so now i've got to see if i can fix it XP Which i don't have time to do any time soon; maybe some upcoming weekend. 0 comments
08 December 2007 // Sketch: Посмотри!
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07 December 2007 // Sketch: Есть хочу
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12 November 2007 // Sketch: Huntress
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07 November 2007 // Sketch: Bounty 'bot
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05 November 2007 // Sketch: Katana
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04 November 2007 // Sketch: Cyclops Assassin
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31 October 2007 // IF: Trick or Treat
Alternative caption:
"Halloween was Witch Hazel's favourite holiday. It was the only time of year she could fatten up the neighbourhood children without raising suspicions."
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26 October 2007 // Sketch: Sniper
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25 October 2007 // Sketch: Clones
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24 October 2007 // Sketch: Robopool
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20 October 2007 // IF: Open
"Open" was the theme word for Illustration Friday about… two full weeks ago, i think.
I was slow on this one, but i don't care.
I think, someday, i would like to learn how to work with metal, and build some models of all the little androids i've been drawing lately.
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Labels: bird, figure, IF, robot
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18 October 2007 // Sketch: Laser Smugglers
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10 October 2007 // Sketch: Lawyer
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09 October 2007 // Sketch: Escape
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04 October 2007 // Sketch: Intimidation
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03 October 2007 // Sketch: Fence
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02 October 2007 // Sketch: Revenge
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01 October 2007 // Sketch: Two on One, Girl Wins
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17 September 2007 // Sketch: Mugging
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16 September 2007 // Sketch: Lonely III
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15 September 2007 // Sketch: Blink
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14 September 2007 // IF: Momentum
"I wish it were as easy to stop hating… as it was to start…"
- Chakotay to Janeway, ST:VOY / Nemesis
I have had a very unproductive week… завтра будет лучше. 0 comments
13 September 2007 // Sketch: Lonely II
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12 September 2007 // Sketch: Lonely
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11 September 2007 // Sketch: Hitchhiker
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08 September 2007 // Sketch: Malfunction
Labels: female, figure, male, robot
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06 September 2007 // Sketch: Over
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05 September 2007 // Sketch: Attack
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04 September 2007 // Sketch: Hero
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// IF: Alphabet
All sci-fi geeks know the true universal language isn't Esperanto… it's math. If you program a computer to make four beeps in a row, it will be four beeps on Earth or Mars, whether you represent it as 4, IV, 100, or - - - -. Likewise, if you combine two parts hydrogen with one part oxygen, it will be more or less the same wherever you go.
So here i present a little alien girl, learning the Earth version of the alphabet for the Universal Language.
I again feel obliged to point out if we ever meet aliens, we'll likely communicate with them by nukes. Admittedly, we may send the nukes in prime numbers: "Okay, if one doesn't kill them, we'll send two nukes, then three, then five, then seven, then eleven…"
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02 September 2007 // Sketch: Superhero
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30 August 2007 // IF: Visitors
Sappy random intergalactic peace illo.
Of course, if we were to discover alien life in the next century, someone on this planet would come up with some excuse to kill 'em all.
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Labels: alien, figure, IF, male
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26 August 2007 // Sketch: Bad II
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09 August 2007 // IF: Missing
Okay, so technically nothing's missing. He knows exactly where all his parts are.
Of course, his "girlfriend" will be long gone by the time the maid finds him, and so he won't know where they are anymore… but for now he knows where they are.
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Labels: female, figure, IF, robot
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26 July 2007 // IF: Poem
- I have no idea what the plastic-y thing they are wrapped in is supposed to be. I vaguely remember thinking, "He's absorbing her!" while i was drawing it. So apparently the red thing is part of the guy robot, who is, i don't know, eating the fembot. With his shirt.
Note to self: Get a full night sleep before drawing weird stuff. - This week i kept thinking about, but could not remember the title of, that one Kurt Vonnegut story in which a male scientist falls in love with a female scientist and wins her heart by having their computer write poetry for her, but the computer fell in love with the female scientist while trying to win her for the male scientist, etc., etc.… Come to think of it, i'm not even entirely sure it's by Kurt Vonnegut. All i remember for sure is having watched a short film based on it in my Lit. of Sci-Fi class. So if anyone knows what i'm talking about, leave a comment, because i've been slowly driving myself insane trying to figure it out.
Labels: female, figure, male, robot
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24 July 2007 // Sketch: Без Любова
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23 July 2007 // Sketch: Чай-Девочка
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19 July 2007 // IF: Discovery
They're not quite sure what to think of each other…
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Labels: female, figure, male, robot
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15 July 2007 // Sketch: Сколько стоит?
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14 July 2007 // Sketch: Dalek Killer
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13 July 2007 // Sketch: Космонот
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12 July 2007 // Sketch: Dancer II
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10 July 2007 // Sketch: Rebekah
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09 July 2007 // Sketch: Bennie
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08 July 2007 // Sketch: Mary III
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07 July 2007 // Sketch: Karaoke
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05 July 2007 // Sketch: Femme Fatale II
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04 July 2007 // Sketch: Lost Blimp
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03 July 2007 // Sketch: Lenina
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02 July 2007 // Sketch: Shoe Sale III
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01 July 2007 // Sketch: Shoe Sale II
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29 June 2007 // Sketch: Shoe Sale
Labels: figure
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27 June 2007 // Sketch: Randomness II
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26 June 2007 // Sketch: Randomness
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25 June 2007 // Sketch: Femme Fatale
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24 June 2007 // Sketch: Trickster
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23 June 2007 // Sketch: Bodyguard III
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22 June 2007 // Sketch: Eve
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21 June 2007 // IF: Rejection
Didn't quite finish… ah well.
Anyway. We can all safely guess who will be picked last, yes?
Labels: female, figure, IF, male
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// Sketch: Dancer
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20 June 2007 // Sketch: Bodyguard II
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19 June 2007 // Sketch: Lady Constance
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17 June 2007 // Sketch: Питр
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16 June 2007 // Sketch: Pianist
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14 June 2007 // Sketch: Bodyguard
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13 June 2007 // Sketch: Rinnie
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12 June 2007 // Sketch: Tout est au mieux
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11 June 2007 // Sketch: Portrait
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10 June 2007 // Sketch: Mary II
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08 June 2007 // Sketch: Опа
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07 June 2007 // Sketch: Бог
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06 June 2007 // Sketches
Labels: animal, female, figure, robot
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30 May 2007 // Sketch: Lilla
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// Sketches
Labels: bicycle, female, figure, male, robot
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28 May 2007 // Sketches
Labels: animal, figure, male, plants, ship
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19 May 2007 // Sketch: Mermaid Attack
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18 May 2007 // Sketch: Walking
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16 May 2007 // Sketches
Labels: animal, female, figure, male
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14 May 2007 // Sketch: Kitchen
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13 May 2007 // Sketchapalooza!
Gettin' all the back sketches outta the way at once this time.
Labels: animal, female, figure, landscape, male, robot
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10 May 2007 // IF: Neighbour
Two thoughts kept coming to mind this week:
- The guy who asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbour?" right before J started in on his Good Samaritan parable
- The quote from Jesus which goes something like, "Whatever you do for the least of these, you do for me."
Prints available.
…and yes. My scanner lives again. Sketches forthcoming.
Labels: figure, IF, male, prints
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04 May 2007 // Sketches: Caught up!
Labels: female, figure, male, robot
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03 May 2007 // Sketches
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02 May 2007 // Sketches
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01 May 2007 // Sketches
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26 April 2007 // Sketch: Midget
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25 April 2007 // Sketch: Horseman
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24 April 2007 // Sketch: Battle III
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23 April 2007 // Sketch: Battle II
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22 April 2007 // Sketch: Battle
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21 April 2007 // Sketch: Devil
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