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Friday, June 19, 2015
The Art of Procrastination
Whats the deal with this Procrastination thing?
Perhaps you absolutely love to make art, but the threshold you need to get over, to actually start doing it, seems sky high.
Your laundry gets folded oh so neatly, all windows are cleaned, your art tools are stored and archived in alphabetical order, your books now color-coded on the shelves... but still, you didnt put one single pen or brush stroke on your paper. Why? A friend of mine told me about her new resolution. She decided on it, after a very relaxing holiday. She said: "you know what? I am always cleaning my house in the weekends, but I want to enjoy my weekends and be free to do whatever I feel like, just like the feeling you have on vacation every day." She came to realize that a clean house is important, but downtime is so much more important. Just sitting down and read, taking an afternoon nap, or going for a ride on her motorcycle. Thats what its about. Its okay to let the laundry basket overflow every once in a while. Or to leave the dishes in the sink when its one of those beatiful sunny fall days. Its not gonna kill you. As long as you, instead, do what you love. |
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Procrastinate on your chores. Make Procrastination work with you, not against you. Stop self-sabotaging your limited art time!
And in fact, its likely that the mess you are making, could even be a great excuse to sketch!
And in fact, its likely that the mess you are making, could even be a great excuse to sketch!
What do you procrastinate on, and how? How could you turn it around?
Saturday, June 13, 2015
The Archie Gang Veronica Lodge
Veronica Lodge
Oh Archie, cant you see that Veronica is bad for you? I mean, yeah, shes rich, but...
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Sunday, May 17, 2015
The Sketchbook Project episode 13
Pages 24 and 25 in my story for the Sketchbook Project 2013:
Do you think Angela can save Maureen?
You will know tomorrow!
If you want to see more entries about this project, and the previous project: Click here to see all the tagged blogposts.
Saturday, May 16, 2015
The Seventh Doctor!
Doctor Whos 7th Doctor (Sylvester McCoy)
Okay, Ive bitten the bullet - here is the last of the 12 (until the Capaldi one comes around)... Its the much-requested Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy. I didnt plan this, but its funny that my last post - The Riddler - is also a guy holding something with a question mark handle. Weird. Anyway, hope you enjoy!
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Saturday, May 9, 2015
Draw Tip Tuesday The Lab cling foil
Welcome to Draw Tip Tuesday - The Lab!
A little experiment today:
A little experiment today:
I got inspired by my friend Sandy, who mentioned cling foil could make fun patterns when you wrinkle it over your wet watercolour wash. Of course I had to try it out!
Thanks for the tip, Sandy!
Next week Ill add a fun drawing on this background. In the meantime,
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Next week Ill add a fun drawing on this background. In the meantime,
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Monday, April 27, 2015
The 6th Doctor!
Doctor Whos 6th Doctor (Colin Baker)
Getting to another Doctor today... Colin Baker! How can you not love his bright, patchwork outfit? Genius! If there are any other important variations of him to draw, let me know.
Just one more Doctor left to do I think...
UPDATE!
Benjamin has done a great remix of my Fight Club Brad Pitt to bring you a World War Z Pitt that I wanted to share. Thanks Ben!
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Just one more Doctor left to do I think...
UPDATE!
Benjamin has done a great remix of my Fight Club Brad Pitt to bring you a World War Z Pitt that I wanted to share. Thanks Ben!
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Doctor Who The Slitheen
The Slitheen
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Its a Whosday!
When Doctor Who first came back (referred to as "Nu Who") with Christopher Eccleston, I caught the "Aliens of London" episode... While the "false-flag alien crash in London designed to spread fear and consolidate power for the government-disguised Slitheen usurpers" storyline was really interesting, the execution was rather goofy. So much so that it kinda turned me off of Doctor Who until a friend got me to try out the newer Matt Smith Doctor, and I was hooked from then on. Im able now to go back and appreciate the Eccleston stuff in context, even the Slitheen episodes. At any rate, after a long wait, here they are.
A couple of pieces from some great contributors as well today, Daniel has done a great job on "Bucky Barnes" from the Captain America movie;
Ximo also has done something to cool share today, its Hulk-Thing!
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Its a Whosday!
When Doctor Who first came back (referred to as "Nu Who") with Christopher Eccleston, I caught the "Aliens of London" episode... While the "false-flag alien crash in London designed to spread fear and consolidate power for the government-disguised Slitheen usurpers" storyline was really interesting, the execution was rather goofy. So much so that it kinda turned me off of Doctor Who until a friend got me to try out the newer Matt Smith Doctor, and I was hooked from then on. Im able now to go back and appreciate the Eccleston stuff in context, even the Slitheen episodes. At any rate, after a long wait, here they are.
A couple of pieces from some great contributors as well today, Daniel has done a great job on "Bucky Barnes" from the Captain America movie;
Ximo also has done something to cool share today, its Hulk-Thing!
Monday, April 6, 2015
The square around the corner
Saturday, March 28, 2015
The Avengers Movie Black Widow
Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson Avengers Movie Version)
This Avengers movie is really ramping up, and even though Ive not seen it yet, I hear really good things about it. At any rate, heres an Avengers movie Black Widow to add to the collection!
Also today is some great Punx-style Mass Effect/Shepard fan art by Mitch. Nice!
I also wanted to give a couple of deserving shout-outs today, one for a teacher named Anthony - antsict.wordpress.com - who let me know about his great idea of using Doctor Who characters from Springfield Punx to illustrate points in his teaching for the kids and as labels around the classroom! Cool, right?
The second shout-out is to Connor from http://connorstbbtblog.blogspot.com/ who passed along some great ideas as far as characters for Springfield Punx that Id like to get to at some point. Thanks Connor!
Anyway, thats it, thanks for reading this post for today, now go outside!
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This Avengers movie is really ramping up, and even though Ive not seen it yet, I hear really good things about it. At any rate, heres an Avengers movie Black Widow to add to the collection!
Also today is some great Punx-style Mass Effect/Shepard fan art by Mitch. Nice!
The second shout-out is to Connor from http://connorstbbtblog.blogspot.com/ who passed along some great ideas as far as characters for Springfield Punx that Id like to get to at some point. Thanks Connor!
Anyway, thats it, thanks for reading this post for today, now go outside!
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Doctor Whos The Master
The Master (John Simm)
A requested character, The Master/Harold Saxon portrayed by John Simm.
And keeping with the 10th Doctor theme, check out Cliffs Judoon drawing!
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A requested character, The Master/Harold Saxon portrayed by John Simm.
And keeping with the 10th Doctor theme, check out Cliffs Judoon drawing!
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Light Part 3 The approach
Some friends have asked me to see some process while painting, well here I show you my approach for it, it doesnt mean I do every paint with this way, I try to variate to find more possible solutions, but anyway, here the painting was taken from a photo again but I took more time with this one (6 hours)
Just 1 Layer (There is no neccesity of use more really)
You can see the different result and is natural, because the more time you apply in something the better it will get, no tracing were done and even sampling in the photo, at the end I color corrected the tones to match the image but thats it. Hope it clarify some questions!
Painting has been completed.
Keep on!
Thursday, March 12, 2015
The Sketchbook project episode 11
-Pages 20 and 21 in my story for the Sketchbook Project 2013-
Will George loose Maureen now, too?
Lets see what happens, tomorrow...
If you want to see more entries about this project, and the previous project: Click here to see all the tagged blogposts.
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Guardians of the Galaxy Drax the Destroyer
Drax the Destroyer (from Marvels Guardians of the Galaxy movie)
Another GOTG movie character today, its Drax the Destroyer!
Also today is a great Doctor Who 11 and 12 mash-up image from Matthew!
And more DW goodness from Cliff, in the form of 2 great wallpapers! Thanks again Cliff! Click images to enlarge!
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Also today is a great Doctor Who 11 and 12 mash-up image from Matthew!
And more DW goodness from Cliff, in the form of 2 great wallpapers! Thanks again Cliff! Click images to enlarge!
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Draw Tip Tuesday Handlettering the Day Away
Welcome to Draw Tip Tuesday!
Let’s make today’s art journal page extra pretty, by adding the day or the date, in hand lettering.
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Let’s make today’s art journal page extra pretty, by adding the day or the date, in hand lettering.
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Sunday, February 22, 2015
Seven Days The Workbook Day 7
It has been SO much fun to do this Seven Days mini-project! Quite a lot of people downloaded the free workbook, and shared their work on my Facebook Page and on instagram.
Thanks everybody!!
Yesterday, Day 7: Choose a word or sentence you like and write/draw it
Saturday, February 21, 2015
The Sketchbook Project episode 15
Pages 28 and 29 in my story for the Sketchbook Project 2013:
Wow, thats a relieve, and such good news! Whatll happen next? Youll see tomorrow!
If you want to see more entries about this project, and the previous project: Click here to see all the tagged blogposts.
Curious about The Sketchbook Project? Its a unique project and anyone can join - read all about it here: The Sketchbook Project
The Sketchbook Project is a collection of creative works in the form of sketchbooks that are contributed by individuals from around the world. Thousands of people are adding their voice to this project annually. Together, they have formed a library of over 22,000 sketchbooks from over 130 countries and growing.
Anyone – from anywhere in the world – can participate in the project.
Anyone – from anywhere in the world – can participate in the project.
Seven Days The Workbook
Look! I already printed and stapled my free workbook
for the mini-project Seven Days
that starts September 8.
Are you joining me?
for the mini-project Seven Days
that starts September 8.
Are you joining me?
Download your free copy of the workbook by clicking here
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