My friend (and much better doodler), JJ Harrison, pointed out this super-fun Wall-of-Fame, where you can scribble and scrawl to your heart’s content and even interact with other artists. It’s a real-time drawing board, where you can comment, like, and draw with one of eight different markers and leave your mark for all to see.…
The Minneapolis’ City Pagesย have put out a call for comics for their annual comics issue. The theme is really fun: imagine what your life will be like in the future and make a comic about what your life is like. You can find their guidelines and more info here. The deadline for submissions is July…
What’s the only thing more addicting than playing Tetris? Playing Human Tetris! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0LtUX_6IXY]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWj5Q1oiM9Y] Peter Jackson is vlogging his progress on the making of The Hobbit. Apparently they’ve started production and left us with this 11 minute behind-the-scenes. Can you imagine all those cameras filming the other cameras filming the actors? Wild.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0FC9hmBm08] Anyone else get that feeling in your stomach when inking, or watching someone else ink? Like you’re at the top of a roller coaster that’s about to drop, or like the feeling you get the night before a new school year? I still feel this excitement whenever I’m drawing with a brush, or when…
My brother had surgery on his ankle and asked me to perform a little Feng Shui on his cast. These dinosaurs are a little teaser from an upcoming project.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wckBXTOMWgY&feature=player_embedded] Dad showed me this amazing comic concept via TOR a year or so ago. It’s basically two comics on a single sheet of paper that can be folded this way and that to reveal tens of comics possibilities. Pretty crazy. I’ll have to make one of my own some time.
Oh, gosh. Ivan Brunetti again. I love this guy and his book on cartooning. Ivan was interviewed on The Comics Journal about teaching cartooning and his involvement with comics and writing. He mentions how some beginners tend to get too wrapped up in “technical stuff right off the bat” (which is true in nearly all…