Category: General

Portrait Night 11/8 (John Peel)

I watched a couple of good BBC documentaries about influential DJ John Peel last weekend, so I thought he’d make a good #PortraitNight subject.  For what it’s worth, the two documentaries were John Peel’s Record Box (about the small box of Peel’s odd favorite 45s discovered at his home after his death) and John Peel’s …

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Why The Single Vanishing Point In 1-Point Perspective Is Always Dead Center

Or, maybe instead of “is always,” I should say “should always be.” You certainly see plenty of drawings where it’s not. But, hear me now and believe me later: this is just plain wrong–or at the very least, unnatural looking. This came up in class today, so I thought I’d do a quick post about …

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D is for Diakk

You can follow the other “D” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by following the #AlphaBeasts hashtag. View all previous AlphaBeasts entries at the AlphaBeasts Tumblr: http://alphabeasts.tumblr.com/. You can also find some submission guidelines there, as well as links to bestiaries and lists of creatures. Here’s one from the second Monster Manual… …

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Portrait Night 11/1 (Pink Floyd)

It’s a four-fer! (?) Here’s a #PortraitNight drawing of Pink Floyd, taken from the cover of the last MOJO Magazine. I did this at the Winston-Salem Comic & Toy fair weekend before last. Like most red-blooded American males, I had a “Pink Floyd phase” in high school, but these days the only stuff of theirs …

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C is for Catoblepas

Here’s the “C” entry in my Dungeons & Dragons-themed AlphaBeasts series. I love the hilariously-written entry on this creature in the original Monster Manual. It begins with: “This nightmare creature is loathsome beyond description and has no redeeming features.” You can follow the other “C” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by …

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