Things I love Sundays - January 4

This video makes me want to go into animation as a career.

LITERARY TATTOOS: There is something about having a quote from your favorite book typed across your skin that just makes me smile. Maybe "birds. birds ate my face." (Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters) or a semi-colon on my wrist.

NEW MUSIC: I got an iTunes gift card for a birthday present and found Papercuts, a neo-hippie band that I now adore, and the Feathers song "Old Black Hat With a Dandelion Flower". On my iPod, I found Caribou's "Hello Hammerheads" and Rock City's Obama version of "Paper Planes".

JANOWRIMO: 50K words in a month. Stories about road trips and love and dogs pissing out windows. It's good fun and keeps me focused on writing every day.

MIRROR'S EDGE: The EA Games new video game, Mirror's Edge, completely blows me away. The graphics, the heart-exploding pace, the running, jumping, leap-of-Faith-ing. Amazing. I could play it forever.

DISNEY RETRO PINUPS: By Amy Mebberson.


BRAILLE "TATTOOS": They are "implants creating embossed text in braille placed under skin, can be read by touch / stroke by blind people." Really cool stuff on that website, if you search around. 

0 - the fool - attempt

so... this is my first attempt at actually drawing. the inspiration was of the zero tarot card: the fool. sketched with a 2h faber-castelle pencil, inked with faber-castelle pigment liners (black), and colored in with 7 prismacolors (three of them skin colors). i think that this came out well - the pose is a little awkward and the anatomy isn't all there, but i think that the colors and techniques are good, for the most part.

critique, or not, but i just wanted to share this first step into the world of markers and "real" art.

(sorry for the shitty image, but it was the best i could do - the colors are brighter in real life and the lines are crisper)

markers - prismacolors - excuses

first of all, please excuse the little hiatus. i'm really trying to update this blog regularly, but sometimes i can't think of a post idea/i don't have the time/i'm not in the mood/the sun is in my eyes/insert some lame-ass excuse here.

also, sorry about the lack of picture, but, don't worry - there will be more soon.

i got prismacolors! and faber-castell pigment liners! and cool bleed-proof paper! it's very exciting. i've been wanting to do more with markers after seeing camille's inspirational marker work, but all i had was my brother's old dried-up primsacolors (the fine tips were unusable and the colors were dull). so, i finally shelled out $30 and got five markers and a pack of pigment liners and quality paper!

i love markers. i've been messing around with colored pencils but, damn. it takes a really long time to color in something all smooth-like. markers are quick, convenient, and really fun.