Been away a while, and there's a lot of topics I could go on about, but I'm not sure who's around anymore. Most people I know have moved on to Twitter, Tumblr or even resigned themselves to the bowels of Facebook.

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This article, How not to draw manga: Some free advice, prompted a thoughtful discussion ( Read more... )

I keep feeling I should move to Dreamwidth. I have an account but there's nothing to see there yet. It took me a while to even warm up to Livejournal after getting an account back in the day when you needed invite codes. What finally did it was a significant number of my online friends from other sites using LJ. But so far, not enough have switched ( Read more... )

And snowballed from there.

Years back while headlesspuppet was investigating inking with a brush, we came across Kolinsky sable. People praised it, but the price was more than either of us were used to paying for one little brush. Yet we bought one, and she gave it a try, and boy was the difference noticeable. This led to experimenting with more brushes -- ( Read more... )

Aelita Andre has been called "a Russian abstract painter who has already been compared to Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, and Jackson Pollack. Art critics have praised her work for its use of the techniques of automatism and accidentalism, branches of surrealist art." I'm not so sure there's much intentional artistic expression behind her work beyond ( Read more... )

Got a phone call yesterday from a lawn service I employed in the past and have considered using again. I was busy at the time and ignored the incoming call, but returned it soon after. It sounds like just what I need, yet while I agreed to receive more information I didn't realize that meant my account would be set up now. I've not agreed to ( Read more... )

There is no easy way to "break into" comic just as there is no easy way to break into writing. Sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes your work catches the eye of just the right person, and you leap to the front of the line. Sometimes you're fortunate enough to have the money and time to try paths others can't, but if your dream is to be published with ( Read more... )

Deviant Art frequently has contests. As is often the case, they’re subjective, and the subject guidelines aren’t always clear. It might not be “fair” but that is the way contests are, subject to the personal tastes of judges who may not even have any real art background, just knowledge of what they like ( Read more... )

On Artists Beware someone brought up a site called Drawgasmic, sending form emails to artists.

I got an email invite the other day to this site (it was an impersonal email addressing me as "Hi you" LOL) [...] From their site:

"We're bringing together the work of 1000 international artists, illustrators, and designers in an exhibition and book ( Read more... )

Today manga cartoonist Deb Aoki -- who I'm told was kinda popular some years back, but I think it was during my "I don't pay attention" years -- Tweet:

# pretty cool! check out @FIXITMag - a new quarterly comics/illustration mag that's lookin' to get off the ground. http://www.fixit-mag.com/Read more... )