An officially enforced long weekend
   - prodigious housework
   - mealtimes
   + needing to get off my feet       Sketchbook time ( Read more... )

When I was in high school, my English classroom was quite near the cafeteria/common area. During the period in which I was in that class, the dance troupe used that space for their rehearsals, so if it was a hot day and we had the door open we would hear their music. In the spring of that year, when the weather had started getting warm again, we ( Read more... )

You never know when you're going to come across something that will expand your artistic toolkit. I never thought, when I picked up a copy of Something Wicked This Way Comes in my senior year of high school, that it would teach me anything about drawing from life, but that was before I read this passage:

Mr Cooger, somewhere behind the eye-slits, ( Read more... )

The TRINITY of LIFE DRAWING LITERATURE
According to Tealin

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
This book will probably teach you more than any other single book how to think about drawing on a fundamental level. Basically, it teaches you how to see. It trains your brain. And as I hope I've demonstrated in at least a few posts, ( Read more... )

Less than a week in and I'm already behind!

I promised myself when I started this that I wouldn't make this a general 'how to draw' series ... it is, somewhat, but there are lots of existing 'how to draw' resources out there. It would probably be good to share some of them, eh?

When I was in high school there weren't many animation books out there ( Read more... )

Redwall Author Brian Jacques Dies

Dear Mr Jacques,

Thank you for helping me survive middle school. I'm where I am today in part because of you.

I'm sorry I never mailed the fan letter I wrote.

Cheers,

Tealin

A handful of people over the course of my adult life have tried to get me into G.K. Chesterton. Those people are going to laugh at this post, or else tear their hair out. They've sent me essays and read me snippets but I've never really gotten it; he seemed like a slightly more lighthearted C.S. Lewis. I appreciated the skill and intelligence but ( Read more... )

I will not use my exposure sheet for doodles.

I will not use my exposure sheet for doodles.

I will not use my exposure sheet for doodles.

I will not use my exposure sheet for doodles.

I will not use my exposure sheet for doodles.


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AAGH THEY HAVE ETHAN FROME ON BBC7.

I AM BECOMING IRASCIBLY BORED JUST LOOKING AT THE TITLE.