“a gigolo is a professional dancer”
via Gunslinger
Etch-a-Sketch art
Wow. Portraiture on the Etch-a-Sketch by Gila Rayberg for Julia Kay’s Portrait Party at Flickr.
T-Rex Trying…
Hugh Murphy’s tumblr documenting The Unfortunate Trials of The Tyrant Lizard King.
(thanks, Amy)
Sam Bosma: Hobgoblin
In my last D&D session a bunch of hobgoblins teleported into a room because someone — I’m not saying who — said that he didn’t want to work as a slave in the necromancer’s tower.
This hobgoblin, additional D&D figures, and more from Sam Bosma.
(Via @wilfreeborn, who says that D&D passed him by, though he remembers a super-secretive group meeting at school.)
my current desktop
Recession Christmas
via ★gruber
Smell Them; You’ll Know.
Fade from black to black.
New Christmas Catalog Price List
There are a bunch of good’uns.
Miguel Endara, Hero
Watch as Miguel Endara draws a portrait of his father by meticulously tapping out millions and millions of dots. Like 2 Years & +200,000 Jelly Beans, this really made me itch.
(via ★glass)
sketch out of context
via Aaron Cohen
sketching in others’ styles
Mike Holmes is drawing himself in the style of other cartoonists. In anticipation of seeing the Tintin movie, I give you some Herge.
Penny // Wil Freeborn
Is this not lovely?
I’m putting a couple of drawings into this year’s Paisley Arts drawing competition. You’re allowed to enter two pictures so I thought I’d go with one more finished and the other more gestural. This has been the first time in a while that I’ve tried to work on a life drawing much further than I’m used to.
The Vulcan
A huge sculpture by Eduardo Paolozzi called the Vulcan carefully walking through the café in Edinburgh’s Gallery of Modern Art like a benign transformer.
windoodles
Friend of clusterflock Garrett Miller’s got himself a new endeavor.
Russian Constructivist Calvin and Hobbes
By friend of clusterflock, Derrick Mosley.
Abner Dean
From what I can see, everything Abner does is gold. (via Austin Kleon)
I don’t even know what this means
This Monday’s Puddin’ is nicely concise
justification for drawing within the chaos of visual experience
From a review of a new book, Field Notes on Science & Nature, edited by Michael Canfield:
Ecologist Jonathan Kingdon writes that drawing “represents a species of translation that is different from what emerges in photography. Given the new research on how the brain processes visual input and given that drawing is a mental process, no further justification need be made for the utility of drawing in lifting out relevance from within the chaos of actual visual experience.”
About the above illustration he writes, “The iconography of caracal ear- or head-flagging is intricately crafted, and fingers on a pencil can scarcely keep up with the rapidity of their flickering movements. Nonetheless, I believe drawings can be a clearer medium for exploring such a visual Morse code than laborious written accounts or quantified records of frequencies.”
courtroom illustration out of context
an exhibition of drawings by Wil Freeborn & Stuart Kerr
I’m doing an exhibition with Stuart Kerr at Coffee, Chocolate & Tea
If you’re in Glasgow over the next few weeks it would be cool if you could visit.
blackberry
Not local, but very good.
from the comments
1. Draw pants on Donald Duck
2. Look at the pants
3. Understand why they left the pants off
smokestack
Part of the (now closed) Iron City Brewery.
church on the hillside
The dome of Immaculate Heart of Mary on Polish Hill, and a closed warehouse.
