1. 12:20 16th May 2013

    Tired Mule

    Tired mule
    you need MORE exercise!
    More tired.
    You need MORE weight on your back!
    Exhausted.
    You need to eat EXACTLY the right foods. Requires extra work though!
    Dead.
    “Such a shame. She didn’t take care of her health!”

     

  2. 11:42 24th Mar 2013

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    my contribution to the yelling goat meme. I was reading Andrew Loomis’ Drawing the Head and Hands and thought of it.

    my contribution to the yelling goat meme. I was reading Andrew Loomis’ Drawing the Head and Hands and thought of it.

     

  3. 16:23 20th Sep 2012

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    Orange Crush Ogre, and Ogre Crush Orange.

    Orange Crush Ogre, and Ogre Crush Orange.

     

  4. 13:39 17th Sep 2012

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    I was at a comic expo and this is what I worked on while I was there. Didn’t seem right to work on fine art, so I took a sketch from my DrawSomething pictures and added some color.

    I was at a comic expo and this is what I worked on while I was there. Didn’t seem right to work on fine art, so I took a sketch from my DrawSomething pictures and added some color.

     

  5. 11:32 30th Jul 2012

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    Tags: grieving timegriefhumour from griefcreativity

    Grieving the situation of a parent with NPD takes time. For me, the grieving has settled down significantly at the three-year mark. Recently it was kicked up again for a day after my dad’s accident, but it settled back down. And there was an interesting side effect: I was able to come up with some amusing ideas, which I am grateful to have written down. It seems that in times of grieving the sense of humour is heightened, which is a great mercy.

     

  6. 10:33 29th Jun 2012

    Tags: Idler MagazineKate BeatonProject Gutenberg

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    Original illustration by S.M. Fitzgerald, Idler Magazine, March 1893, available on Project Gutenberg. Inspired by Kate Beaton’s technique of taking an illustration and making a comic out of it.

    Original illustration by S.M. Fitzgerald, Idler Magazine, March 1893, available on Project Gutenberg. Inspired by Kate Beaton’s technique of taking an illustration and making a comic out of it.

     

  7. 10:27

    Tags: pull my fingercharlemagne

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    Reference is from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages, and During the Renaissance Period by Paul Lacroix, curator of the Imperial Library of the Arsenal, Paris. Available through Project Gutenberg. Image is King Charlemagne receiving the Oath of Fidelity and Homage from one of his great Feudatories or High Barons.—Fac-simile of a Miniature in Cameo, of the “Chronicles of St. Denis.” Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century (Library of the Arsenal).

    Reference is from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages, and During the Renaissance Period by Paul Lacroix, curator of the Imperial Library of the Arsenal, Paris. Available through Project Gutenberg.

    Image is King Charlemagne receiving the Oath of Fidelity and Homage from one of his great Feudatories or High Barons.—Fac-simile of a Miniature in Cameo, of the “Chronicles of St. Denis.” Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century (Library of the Arsenal).

     

  8. 18:43 23rd Jun 2012

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    DrawSomething sketches. That game is so fun! Formatted with StripDesign. The words are: hiphop, crown, sneakers, Korea, Tigger, carrot, and unibrow.

    DrawSomething sketches. That game is so fun! Formatted with StripDesign. The words are: hiphop, crown, sneakers, Korea, Tigger, carrot, and unibrow.

     

  9. 09:40 15th Jun 2012

    Tags: Drawsomething appdraw somethingdraw something appjules feifferdrapebucklejawrifledancerstewardessdinosaurhuntercurtainsdrawing style

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    I’ve been playing DrawSomething a lot and having a good time. I like it when I get compliments on my sketches. Here are my drawings for the words drape, buckle, jaw, and rifle. For “rifle” I tried to do that continuous line thing for clothing folds that Jules Feiffer does.

    I’ve been playing DrawSomething a lot and having a good time. I like it when I get compliments on my sketches. Here are my drawings for the words drape, buckle, jaw, and rifle. For “rifle” I tried to do that continuous line thing for clothing folds that Jules Feiffer does.

     

  10. 14:47 23rd May 2012

    I have an Etsy shop, and I heard a great seminar on The Art of Pricing for Profit by Megan Auman and Tara Gentile. http://www.etsy.com/community/online-labs As a result I bumped my prices up to boutique retail prices. So much of my decision making in my life has been based on low self esteem. Employers got such a great deal with me when I was out in the workforce. 

    My Etsy product is unique, I’m the only one in the world who makes them. Unless by now someone else is copying them. I allowed others to have too much input into my pricing. I even lowered my prices more to please a tire-kicker who had a bricks and mortar shop. After I lowered my prices and let her know, I never heard back from her! My prices were so low I didn’t want to make them any more. And my sales weren’t any better at lower prices.

    So my customer is someone who really appreciates having a unique, handcrafted, recycled materials product. I’m not a sweatshop, and I’m not going to get carpal tunnel syndrome.  I’m back making them, and feeling good about them again.