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March, 2011

  1. Sketch-a-Day #67

    March 17, 2011 by Collin

    I was either inspired by the majestic and noble camel, Baba Yaga’s chicken hut, the AT-ATs from Empire Strikes Back, or I just wanted to draw a boat with legs.

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  2. Sketch-a-Day #66

    March 16, 2011 by Collin

    First:
    Happy 18th birthday son! Now get a job you bum! :P

    On to the drawing that… um.

    I don’t know. It was originally going to be a die drawn standing on a point from memory, to give you some idea on how far astray I went. Turns out my memory of a die in that position is faulty as my memory of gorillas and penguins. I should have had six edges instead of four. So I had to do something with the box I’d drawn. Apparently this is that something.

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  3. Sketch-a-Day #65

    March 15, 2011 by Collin

    So much for trying to avoid doing the same thing twice. Here we have yet another pirate with no hands or feet. Sorry guys.

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  4. Sketch-a-Day #64

    March 14, 2011 by Collin

    My only defense is I was feeling punny, the idea struck and I ran with it. All the way to here. Was it worth it? I’ll leave that to the historians.

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  5. Zombies and poetry… fun times ahead.

    March 13, 2011 by Collin

    One of the things I bought for myself with the gift card to Complete Games and Hobbies that my mom and step-dad gave to me was a Zombie magnetic poetry kit. “Over 200 word magnets of the damned.”

    For some reason, from the time I first saw it, I’ve been interested in magnetic poetry. I think it’s to do with seeing a bunch of words scatter haphazardly, letting your eyes roam over them and putting together somewhat coherent stories from the jumble. It’s a nice way to stimulate your creativity.

    That said, I still haven’t opened my zombie set. I have it next to me at my computer, which is where it ended up after I bought it. Apart from the fridge and the dishwasher, I don’t have a lot of places to play with a set of word magnets.

    Quite a few months back I bought a word magnet app for my iPad called “Word Magnets for iPad” strangely enough. I’m glad it was only a dollar, because it was pretty disappointing. When you launch it, all of the words that are available are scattered on an unpleasant “brushed metal” surface, and it can be a real pain to select the word that you want from the mess. There’s no way to add your own lists of words, no way to edit current words, no way to change the background and no update since it launched in April of last year.

    Last night I found a free app for the iPad called “Poetry Magnets“. It also only has one background, but at least it’s not a crappy looking brushed metal. Also, the words that you can choose from appear in a kind of drawer at the bottom that you can scroll through by swiping. It has various categories of words to pick from, including zombies! I was quite happy to see that, so I didn’t waste any time downloading it.

    You can mix-and-match between the various categories, although it can be a bit hard to locate which categories contain the words like, “and, but, with, a, if” etc. Some are in “Common”, others in “Extensions” and still others in “Function”. Happily, the developer allows you to double tap on a tile and change the word, and I later found out that if you double tap the surface where there are no tiles, you can create a word tile from scratch.

    The only thing you can’t do that I would like to do yet is create your own category sets and change the background.

    This has been wordy enough. Here are the first two “poems” that I’ve made with the app so far.

    edit: one more…

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  6. Sketch-a-Day #63

    March 13, 2011 by Collin

    See? That’s probably the best penguin I’ve ever drawn. How sad is that? Pretty damned sad, that’s how. Luckily I didn’t spend hours upon hours creating it. Nope, I went from zero to arrrghdammit in about 6 minutes. For anyone keeping track, it’s now an established fact that I can’t draw gorillas or penguins from my mind at this point in time.

    What’s next? No idea because I’m caught up with my scanning and posting now. It may be better, it may be worse. I guess we’ll both have to wait and see.

    On to other thoughts…

    I picked up a pretty awesome book last night called “Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist”. She’s the daughter of Robert Crumb and Aline Kominski-Crumb. In it she’s collected a very small sample of the artwork that she has been creating from when she was 26 months old through the age of 26 years. It’s really interesting to see how her style has developed considering that she has grown in the shadow of the amazing underground cartoonist Robert Crumb. It makes me wish I’d done a better job collecting and cataloging the drawings that Jordyn has made in her lifetime so far. Not that I’m amazing, but I think she could be if she sticks with it.

    If you can find it, and you have any interest in that kind of thing, I recommend it. I say “if you can find it” because on Amazon the price ranges from one copy left sold by an outside seller for $26.90 up to $391.52 for a used limited edition copy with a slipcase that has been signed and numbered. Options (at least as far as Amazon are concerned) are limited. There were two copies left at the Barnes & Noble where I bought mine in the Citadel Mall here in Colorado Springs. The cover price is $27.95.

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  7. Sketch-a-Day #62

    March 12, 2011 by Collin

    Okay. Yeah. About this… even though I’m getting better at drawing crap from my mind, that doesn’t mean that I’m getting any better at thinking of what to draw. I’ve decided to try to head into odd directions with what I’m drawing for a bit. The odder, the better*

    It somewhat started with the worm in the roller-skate, followed up by the bird on the unicycle, but it really coalesced with the toilet drawing:

    “When you stare into the toilet the toilet stares back at you.”
    - Friedrich Nietzsche upon addressing the plumber’s union, or so I’ve heard.

    Is it going to help? I have no idea. Tomorrow’s sketch certainly didn’t.

    —
    * Couldn’t get more relative if it were fraternal twins making a baby.

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  8. Sketch-a-Day #61

    March 11, 2011 by Collin

    I’ll bet you would like an explanation for this drawing. I’ll just bet you would.

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  9. Sketch-a-Day #60

    March 10, 2011 by Collin

    I’m finding that I’m getting a bit better at drawing crap from my mind. My cluttered, effed up mind. I’m not saying that’s a fantastic helicopter or anything. Just that it’s better than I thought it would be. It’s no dog-faced gorilla.

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  10. Sketch-a-Day #59

    March 9, 2011 by Collin

    I couldn’t think of anything to draw, so I drew a can on the table. It was just that kind of day.

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