December 2011
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Dec 26th
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Book review: Blacksheep! Blacksheep!
Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Meredith Nicholson One of those lovely older books they have for free on Amazon for the Kindle. I’ve only ever read one of Nicholson’s other books, The House of a Thousand Candles, and it’s a wonderful mystery. I was pleased to see that Amazon offers a jillion of his other books, so I snapped up the titles that sounded the most fun. Blacksheep! follows the story of...
Dec 26th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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I have an addiction.
Sega had a contest last month. It was just “draw some fanart of Sonic CD that may or may not include Metal Sonic.” My hubby urged me to enter, but I expected the competition to be something fierce. I mean, there’s some serious heavyweights in the Sonic art community. I expected anything I’d cobble together to get curbstomped by something like this. Umbra-Rockchick Sanitrance Instead, we got...
Dec 16th
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Dino-dragons
I’m becoming increasingly interested in dragon art from ancient cultures. I want my dinosaurs to look like real animals, and I’m suspicious of paleo-art that copies the same ideas over and over. Especially when new details come to light, like maybe dinosaurs were skinnier than we draw them, or the big sauropods had long spikes on their backs. This sends ripples of shock through the...
Dec 15th
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Dec 13th
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Dragon modeling and thoughts
Worked on this guy a little tonight. I had gotten a lot farther, then Painter inexplicably crashed and I had to start over. I’m back to obsessively ‘ctrl-s’ing again. I read this funny little article called Don’t Be Afraid to Fail Aggressively. They’re taking writing advice from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, namely, his statement about, “I would rather fail being aggressive than being ...
Dec 10th
“Is there any rationale for building entire mansions of words? I think there is,...”
Dec 8th
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Robo dragon sketches
More random sketches. Conceptualizing a mechanical dragon from my current story. Ignore the curvy dragon in the middle, he was just my warm-up scribble.
Dec 8th
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Visual notes
This sketch is my visual notes. You know how a picture is worth a thousand words? The delicious thing is, nobody but me has any idea what it means. It’s better than writing in Vorticon!
Dec 3rd
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Random sketches
Just some random sketches for tonight. I feel like I’m in creative limbo, wanting to write one thing and wanting to edit something else.
Dec 2nd