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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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The Internet Mapping Project

February 27, 2011

I can’t print the form this is to be drawn on, but here is my contribution to The Internet Mapping Project, as is. Also see Flickr. How would you draw the Internet?

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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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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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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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Going Rural for Doodle Week

January 16, 2010

Doodle Week, January 16 – 17th. Try drawing a tiny world in a teacup this week.

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Coffee Shop Confessional

January 10, 2010

I’m so used to typing rather than writing by hand it’s confusing my brain. I’m second guessing all my spelling cause it feels so unusual to be writing out each letter in the word. In my mind I see them coming out in type, fully spelled and sorted. The long hand way makes them all [...]

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Type in Your Own Style

March 25, 2009

In writing we use fonts far more than we actually think about them. What font are you reading right now? Do you know for sure, me either. I could check the HTML and find out but I don’t need to. I know it’s working and it’s readable. Still, there are endless fonts of every style [...]

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