January 2011
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is it just me...?
… or is uploading photos broken on tumblr today?
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sketchbook yummyness
the other day while researching into print on demand publishing sites, i came across this self-published sketchbook of the works of norman j schureman. not someone i’ve ever heard of before, but i’m loving his scribbles:
linky poo
EDIT:
wow! - i just googled ‘norman j schureman’ to see if any more of his artwork was available on the intarwebs and found this:
murder...
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REVIEW: pentel pocket brush pen
while i was working on my [to be honest, pretty risible] entry for the sketchbook project, over the chrimbo holidays, i did a wee bit of doodling using a brush and indian ink. a technique i used to be quite into ‘back in the day’ when i was a callow youth at art collge, but which i hadnae used that often since.
there’s something really satisfying about the physical craft of...
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british cartoon archive
this is a great site for anyone interested in the history of newspaper and magazine cartooning.
The British Cartoon Archive is located in Canterbury at the University of Kent’s Templeman Library. It has a library, archive, and exhibition gallery, and is dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years. The BCA holds the artwork for more than 150,000 British ...
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title sequence playlist →
for those first years working on the title sequence project; here is a selection of the typography heavy title sequences we showed you at the beginning of the brief.
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lateral thinking
i spotted this ‘be seen in the dark’ sticker on a bike outside college before. nothing particularly interesting about it, on first appearance, but my curiosity was idly piqued by the choice of a cheshire cat, as opposed to any other cartoon animal or object.
then i remembered the characteristic of the cheshire cat in alice in wonderland:
..when [Alice] noticed a curious...
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come and have a go...
..if you think you’re art enough!
if you’ve think you’ve got an eye for colour and graphic design, check out the munsell hue test and see how you get on.
i scored a whopping 99,4% – go me!
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paging KPP!... paging KPP!...
i just stumbled across this at random on amazon. looks like the kind of reading material any sketchbook obsessed scouser would love to have in their collection and, at not much over a measley tenner, they wouldnae even have to shoplift it!
linky
An Illustrated Life offers a sneak peak into the wildly creative imaginations of top illustrators, designers and artists from around the world...
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busman's holiday
damn! - cannae believe it’s back to the day job again tomorrow, after my all-too-brief christmas break.
however, i’ve not been idle over the holidays.
as i’ve alluded to before, i’ve been busy working on one of the websites i run; namely, the appletalker discussion forum. i’ve switched the site from using the unclassified newsboard [UNB] forum software to using...
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tumblr bollox pollock
i was hoping that santa claus might have brought the folks at tumblr some new servers for christmas. but apparently not, as i’m still getting that bloody annoying “…over capacity…” message almost every time i try to do something on the site.
so in homage to the now legendary twitter fail whale, i present the “tumblr servers are bollox pollock”