Eliza is offering free character or other sketches, upgradable via tips. Particularly check her out if you like cute&cartoony styles. :)

And as to my Small Art drive... Here's a photo of the first requests of 19 people, inked (taken with a real camera, which makes for better visibility than the cellphone photos of pencil sketches). That leaves ( Read more... )

I took a quick cellphone snapshot of the 8 images I started working on: http://yfrog.com/z/oexifsjRead more... )

Wow. I’ve been sorta out of sorts art-wise while working up to graduating. And I didn’t scan most of the drawing I did for classwork. Oops.

Well, this is overdue; here are the few random images I drew this year:

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's a holiday.

I slept in, and afterwards got some sketching done.

Speaking of sketching, the EMG Sketchfest is on, so if you'd like to sketch based on (mostly) fantasy prompts, or like to leave prompts, have a look!

I drew a thing.

This entry was originally posted at http://anke.dreamwidth.org/84303.html. You can comment here or there.

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All filled up, folks, no more.

I'm looking for a bit of help pulling myself out of an art slump (and, frankly, trying to make something I could use as samples on teenycom), so, you get to request art.

• I'll draw images in A6 size (about 4x6 inches), inked outlines coloured with markers (and possibly detailing with coloured pencils, acrylic ink ( Read more... )

Jessica spent most of the morning sketching. The stack of filled sheets had grown. Near the bottom they were neatly stacked, and held roughs for scenes or portraits, none of them satisfying. Towards the top, the stack sprawled, and the sketches degraded into doodles. Patches of hatching, and bouquets of swirly lines.

After lunch she went for a walk ( Read more... )

manga_critic on Twitter pointed out:

I love the retailer who turns up at The Beat to refute Shaenon’s arguments by pointing to his man-cave marketing strategies. link

“Only men who like superhero floppies patronize my shop, ergo no female audience for comics exists!” link

The first time I entered a comic shop, they had a huge display of Art ( Read more... )

Have some videos and artwork I found featuring octopi. (Yes, I know that’s not the proper plural.)

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via Wired Science, Top 10 Amazing Animal Videos

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via wtf_nature


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Dark Roasted Blend mentions in a post about British Pub Signs:

The Pig and Whistle’s origin is obscure, but it could be a corruption of the Anglo-Saxon “piggin wassail” which means “good health”.

One fun part is that there is a German expression of surprise, “Ich glaub mein Schwein pfeift”, which translates to “I think my pig’s whistling”. As far I ( Read more... )