Second week’s worth of scroodls [and they said he’d never keep it up!] Forward we go into week three, scribbling away like a good ‘un!

The mighty Scroodl challenge; pick a start date and then aim to create and upload a hand-drawn piece of art, every day for the next 365 days –or a “year”, as it’s sometimes also called!

I started mine on 31st December, so 6th January marked my first ‘week’. Here are my first seven Scroodls. 

I’ve just stumbled upon this, through the randomness that is retweeting and I love it! It’s an entertaining read and it combines a review of the film with personal anecdotes and hand-drawn artwork.  what’s not to like?  Possibly something to ponder for you lot out there with reviews to write for your PDPs.

“Think outside of the box”,  and all thon!

War Horse –an illustrated review.

squid-vicious:

Tumblr Post limit:

Okay so it’s 250. I guess that’s like a lot of posts in one day. But as someone who used to spend like a whole day on Tumblr because I had nothing else to do and posted 300+ posts (not every day, on rare occasions), I have posted more than 250 posts in one day many times.

So…

I stumbled across this post, whilst trying to search the Tumblr API for a way to limit members of a shared blog to a certain number of posts per day.

WTF! –All these people crying, complaining and petitioning because Tumblr limits you to  a ‘mere’ 250 posts per day.

Why don’t you actually try and, you know, create something for yourselves, you fucking retards –instead of just sitting there, compulsively clicking “reblog” on every picture of a cat supposedly doing something  amusing, or of some bint with her norks out –that causes a momentary flicker of interest to pass through your vacant skulls?  

Jeebus! –anyone fancy starting a counter-petition to ask Tumblr to lower the daily post limit to single figures? That might do something to address the signal-to-noise ratio around here.

I’ve been racking my brain for a week or two now, trying to remember the name, web address [anything!] of a site I came across a while back, whereby you sign up with them as an illustrator and [subject to being accepted] you get to illustrate eBooks for iPad, from a selection they sell on iTunes. I thought it might be of interest to Vanessa in particular, but also to some of the rest of you, who enjoy a bit of illustration, on the sly.

Anyway, purely by chance, I came across the link to the site in an old post on this very self-same blog. I knew I’d mentioned it before *somewhere*!

So, here it is: Pictorical

Disclaimers:

1: The above link takes you to the signup page and includes a referral code from me [They say you’ll get accepted quicker, if you refer other people].

2: I’ve had no dealings with Pictorical at all, other than signing up myself. So read the small print and make sure you know what the deal is, before committing yourself to any work. This post is just to flag up Pictorical’s existence. It is *not* an endorsement.

Howdy boys and girls.

At that depressing post-Christmas  time of year, when you look at your haggard hungover face and turkey & mince pie-bloated carcass in the bathroom mirror and realise that you’ve spent the entire Christmas break stuffing your face and poisoning your liver and done “absolutely-no-work-at-all©” it’s nice to set yourself some aspirational New Year’s Resolutions.

And what could be more assuaging of your festive guilt than to pledge yourself fervently to some unattainable goal which, deep down, you know you’ll give up on, halfway through January and return to your self-loathing indolent ways?

Well, that dream can now become a reality!

Meet Scroodl, my fantastic new concept, for all boys and girls of an artistic disposition. The idea is simples. Just sign up, using the contact form on the Scroodl site and then your challenge is to upload a scribble or doodle [ie. “scroodl”] every day for a whole year. Read the details here.

Well –are you with me artistic brothers and sisters? Are we gonna do this thing and show those nay-sayers that we’ve got what it takes to produce crap artwork, all year round?

Brothers?…

Sisters?….

Where’s everybody gone?