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crantz: Can you draw me a unicorn with a flowing purple mane wearing a fake beard?
Me: What sort of fake beard?

(three hours later)

Me: Scanning...sent!
crantz: I like the mane and the tail and the little feet.
Me: Yay!
crantz: But you forgot the horn.

I didn't get to draw much this year, but here's some stuff:



The new baggage claim drags DTW kicking and screaming into the 1964 World's Fair. Yes, I was bored enough to draw baggage claim. As always, click for more biggery. ( MOAR )

For the sandfordpolice Princess Nicholas Fanart Challenge. The Princess as he appears in The Bellman's Map. Ink and marker on Bristol. Seriously overworked the hands, but screw it.

The results of your analysis say:

You tend to pursue many different activities simultaneously. When misfortune does happen OH GOD KILL ME, it doesn't actually dishearten you all that much SUICIDE IS A VALID CHOICE.
You are a thoughtful WHOOPS SORRY WASN'T AIMING FOR YOUR HEAD and cautious person HAY GUYS WATCH THIS. You like to think about your method THROW STUFF AT IT, seeking to pursue your goal in the most effective way IT'LL PROBABLY WORK AND IF IT DOESN'T WE CAN REPAINT.
You are creative NAP, mentally active NAP and industrious NAP.
You have a sunny, cheerful FUCK YOU CUNTBISCUIT disposition.

What does your drawing say about YOU?

nicked from indigo

Huge and terrifying mall clearance sales this weekend. I went last night, because I like cheap shit but hate everything else about the place. Yes, I will take a lovely Hogwarts t-shirt for $5.00, thank you. $10 for a scary-ass Little Apple Doll? Sure! See y'all after Christmas.

Weekend temperatures will be in triple digits, so I will stay in, doing laundry and cowering in fear of this goddamn doll. (Note to self: buy milk.)

Meanwhile, bits of the household art and furnishings are going to my siblings (since they, like, actually own them, the fuckers). I will not be sorry to lose the watercolors of barns. But this leaves me with walls that need filling, and no matter how much I wish otherwise, the Buckaroo Banzai one-sheet just doesn't look good in the living room, and costs the Earth to frame.

So I figured, fuck it, Dick Blick has big canvases for under ten bucks, and if you finish the edges you don't have to frame the damned things. So...I am trying to paint with acrylics.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAyeah.

I now have examples of objects for which hanging is, quite literally, too good.



_{Thank God they've started making watercolor canvas.}

crantz asked for a picture of the Batman villain* Anarky. I did this from Web pics and memory, mainly as a decorative thingy. He'll get a better one now that I've got some comics refs. If I feel like it. And he's nice to me.



Click for bigger.

*Anarky thinks he's a hero, and that knows what's best for all of us poor unenlightened common folk. If he didn't have good intentions and massive financial resources, he'd probably just write moody poetry in his blog until he could work himself into spraying his high school with an AK-47. Sadly, he has the common sense of a panicky ground squirrel, and his actions generally necessatate a good old-fashioned Bat-whuppin'.

I bought a clutch of Sailor Moon animation sketches off eBay a few weeks ago. They were way cheap (two bucks for the whole set I think). Two went neatly into little standard-size mats. One will be diary fodder. But the two that had enough artin' on them to take up the whole sheet were badly damaged from being pried off the backs of their cels. Pretty much valueless to a serious collector, not restore-able, but still the remnants of a once-proud civilization. What to do?

Well, Dick Blick had a canvas sale, so I grabbed two stretched canvases in whatever-size-they-are (9x12? 11x14? I forget) and some matte medium. Coated each canvas in the medium, then put down the drawings, letting the moisture help stretch out the crumpled bits and sticking the totally ripped-off bits back where they belonged, like a jigsaw.

The sketches are in pencil, with one or two colored pencil bits to indicate shading or whatever to the people who did the cels -- in this case red, yellow, a light blue, and an orangey thing. Not very bright, but I brought out the blue/yellow picture with some compatible pale blue acrylics and yellow Prismacolor (thanks, evil Cabal!). The orange and red one got tinted with yellow and gold mulberry paper. Mulberry paper is neat with matte medium -- it goes totally transparent, and you can also mush it up to disguise where the edge of the sketch meets the canvas if you like. Let that dry, then cream and yellow Prismacolor to lighten up some passages and ease the transitions in others. Apply a final coat of medium as a varnish, let it dry, and you have two pieces of scrap transformed into pop art for around ten bucks, ready to hang.

The August HP monthly entries have been posted. Go have a look, and vote if you want. Also, the topic for September has been announced, so get t'drawing.

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