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Five Reasons to Draw Small

October 19, 2011

Five Reasons To Draw Small 1. Doodling focuses your mind, giving you increased attention (even when it looks like you’re not). 2. You’ll increase your awareness- when doodling flowers, you’ll start to notice more aspects of a flower, the way that the stem tilts the flower, the way that the same petal shape varies with [...]

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What I Learned About Doodling from Scrapbookers

September 24, 2011

Mainly this is about lettering, how to create fun, fanciful and pretty letters. These can be used to illustrate quotations. Or add a unique touch to other creative work you are doing. Think outside the box. Just get the basics and take off with your own imagination and favourite things. Start by drawing your letters [...]

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The Sketchbook Project World Tour 2012

June 12, 2011

Read more about The Sketchbook Project World Tour 2012 on their site.  It’s for visual artists to contribute and eventually the sketchbooks will be exhibited in the Brooklyn (US) Art Library. There are a list of topics to choose from to use as inspiration for your illustration. Which would you pick (to write about or) [...]

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Paper is Sexy

February 24, 2011

I have a letter sent in the mail from a corporation. The paper is sexy. It feels smooth, silky even. The envelope was the same quality of paper. It feels like luxury, decadence and lust all on a page, blank on one side. How can you resist doing something with such marvelous paper? I saved [...]

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What do you Know about Typography?

February 16, 2011

Dzineblog has a post about trends in web design. One of the elements they write about, twice actually, is typography. What do you know about it? I Love Typography: A Guide to Web Typography The Font Feed: Erik Spiekermann’s Typo Tips A List Apart: On Web Typography Smashing Magazine: 10 Principles for Readable Web Typography [...]

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Drawing Flowers

January 26, 2011

I like to draw a bit. Sometimes they get online, but my scanner is a bit temperamental, so sometimes they just get added to the pile of drawings I have done. I used to keep them posted to Flickr as well but I haven’t kept up with them there. What do you draw or doodle [...]

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Lava Doesn’t Care if it Hurts Your Feelings

January 6, 2011

Sometimes odd phrases just pop into my head. They don’t make sense in a logical way, but they reflect my sense of irony and personal logic. Today I’ve been watching a marathon of TV shows about geography of the planet. Chances are people assume geography is about knowing where places are, like towns and countries. That’s only [...]

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Reconnect by Getting Hands On

January 3, 2011

When did you last write something out, by hand? Reconnect to your creativity by getting more hands on again. Pull yourself away from the computer and write long hand at a coffee shop. Or get paper and pen and draw something instead of writing a word. Write in a journal, something personal and connect with [...]

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One for the Ideas Folder

November 30, 2010

The problem with having a lot of ideas is finding the time to do them all well enough to bring your original ideas to life. I’d like to do web comics/ cartoons. Like this idea I doodled above. Before I’d post this as a web comic I would draw it again, better, maybe give it [...]

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Personal Snow Day

November 27, 2010
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You Don’t Need an Image with Each Blog Post

September 5, 2010

Why are you adding an image/ graphic/ photo to your blog post? Because someone said to do it that way? Because people are visual and need the extra stimulus? Because the print magazines (or some popular blog you read) does it that way? Rethink that plan. The images added to blog posts for the sake [...]

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Punky Moods

August 31, 2010

Get out the paper and pens and draw your mood. See if you can fit the style of Punky Moods. Or just go with your own happy face type of thing and add your current mood to it. Draw a few and submit them to the site to be included. Different artists/ cartoonists have drawn [...]

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Wordies: Illustrated Word Puzzles

August 19, 2010

Wordies on the Web Color Wacky Wordies Whacky Wordies Dmoz: Wordplay: Wordies Could you design one of your own?

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Have you Ever Found a Word that Said Everything?

July 3, 2010

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for”. — Georgia O’Keeffe Quote found on the Daily Art Fixx site. Do you watch your characters and the scene around them as you write or is it all just coming out as [...]

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WordPress Plugins for Web Comics

June 27, 2010

These are not in any real order and they are not reviewed by me. I’m just posting the results of my research into how to make a gallery of my own web comics through this blog on WordPress. None are just what I am looking for, so far. But, my list may be useful to [...]

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Text Art on Twitter

May 21, 2010

The biggest struggle with posting ASCII art anywhere was always the formatting. Trying to get your work to use a fixed width font so it doesn’t come out all warped looking. Also, making sure you added carriage returns at the end of each line of text. If you missed one you would soon find out [...]

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Catching the Tiger’s Tail

April 4, 2010

There are no right or wrong ways to start writing a story. Some writers will plan it all out ahead, even using a storyboard as they do for drawing cartoons. Not everyone finds this to be the way that works for them. Not everyone can get into planning and then get out of it again [...]

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