Monday, March 19, 2012
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This one wasn't a direct request, but I couldn't resist. It's taken from a book about Monkeys given to me by our French au pair (Jackie?) before we left Birmingham when I was a child. We spent quite a bit of time looking through it and comparing the monkeys to members of my family. This one we compared to my sister. No, this is not much to my credit and will only fuel a recent controversy about the fact that I once compared her to Mavis Cruet. What can I say? I'm a terrible brother.
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Not one of my favourites, but a direct request ('A scary fish that lives in the arctic where the penguins are'). It took some time to decipher this and it turned out that what was desired came from a talking penguin app on my iPad.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
More animals - the little notebook
After a long hiatus, another set of animal pictures. At some point last year I asked my son for commissions and this is the list that we drew up (once I'd completed the first requests, we added more).
Then I tried to draw or complete one a day, using a pocket-sized cahier from Moleskine. Half way through I discovered that other, more accomplished people were already doing similar things here and here, but ho hum. You may notice that there are still things on the list that I didn't fit into this notebook, and a recent request was made for 'more hyenas', so this may keep going. The complete notebook can be viewed as a flickr slideshow here and I've posted some individual images above, with comments added.
This should link to a flickr stream of the entire notebook. (Sorry, I haven't got the hang of this.)
Regarding process: a couple of months into this, I came across Pinterest as a useful way of capturing and storing the reference images and created this stream:
This obviously has copyright implications: I think what I've done falls under 'fair use' and whatever theory of copyright underlies Pinterest. But if you own copyright to an image I've pinned and would rather that I removed it, just let me know via and I'll take it down.
Then I tried to draw or complete one a day, using a pocket-sized cahier from Moleskine. Half way through I discovered that other, more accomplished people were already doing similar things here and here, but ho hum. You may notice that there are still things on the list that I didn't fit into this notebook, and a recent request was made for 'more hyenas', so this may keep going. The complete notebook can be viewed as a flickr slideshow here and I've posted some individual images above, with comments added.
Regarding process: a couple of months into this, I came across Pinterest as a useful way of capturing and storing the reference images and created this stream:
This obviously has copyright implications: I think what I've done falls under 'fair use' and whatever theory of copyright underlies Pinterest. But if you own copyright to an image I've pinned and would rather that I removed it, just let me know via and I'll take it down.
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