Cool book I found at the library last week. Animals With Sharpies by Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber. And you can order a copy here if you do not object to ordering from a monolithic corporation
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cartoon life: Where can I find your free ebooks and stuff? Hmmm?
I can haz free cat books? I’m switching out stuff from Dropbox to Google Drive. The eight wallpapers I posted earlier have a new home, and all the free ebooks, cats and landscapes are also there. The 100 cats (nearly 150 cats only $0.99!) ebook is still at iTunes, along with
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Gravity’s Rainbow Illustrated
A screaming comes across the sky…Above him lift girders…the carriage, which is built on several levels…drunks, old veterans…hustlers…derelicts, exhausted women with more children… On a Giant’s Shoulders: Zak Smith Illustrates Gravity’s Rainbow By Creon Upton April, 2005 Illustrating Gravity’s Rainbow is like putting Ezra Pound’s Cantos to music, or writing
Continue readingcartoon life: The gang of eight: in charge of #ldnont
Filed under: caricature, cartoons, digital, drawings, London Tagged: Brian Orser, Bud Polhill, caricature, city, City council, Dale Henderson, Denise Brown, Gang of Eight, Joe Fontana, Joe Swan, Paul Van Meer Bergen, politics, Sandy White
Continue readingcartoon life: I think “Woof” is a perfectly good answer.
It’s best to just draw. Make some marks. Scribble some lines. Don’t edit. Don’t criticize, just make marks. Make it ‘better’ later. Filed under: digital, drawings, illustration, painting Tagged: dog, humor
Continue readingcartoon life: Skeptical kitty
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Continue readingcartoon life: Cat rests still
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Continue readingcartoon life: Holy cats! 100 cats is live on the iTunes bookstore!
100 cats: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/100-cats/id559121901?mt=11 What a fast turnaround! I thought I would have some time to set up a page for the book before then. Filed under: art, book, comment, digital, drawings, good stuff, iPad, painting Tagged: 100 cats, art, Cat, cats, digital, ebook, humor, humour, illustration, iPad
Continue readingcartoon life: Would you like to come up and see my #etchings?
Click to view slideshow. Laying about being bored, and somewhat on an enforced vacation, I downloaded Etchings app and ran a number of randomly chosen images through the filters. Some interesting results above. Filed under: art, drawings Tagged: etchings, filters, iPad
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Continue readingcartoon life: Link and page updates
I updated the pages for the books, and corrected links. An iBooks 2 version of the Cat book is up on iTunes at:http://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/cat/id499745919?mt=11. It’s a free download. An iBooks 2 version of 20 Landscapes IV is up on iTunes at: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/20-landscapes-iv/id497100073?mt=11. It’s a free download. PDF’s at Dropbox: 20 Landscapes I 20 Landscapes
Continue readingcartoon life: Sleeping cat 6
Filed under: art, digital, drawings, painting Tagged: 100 cats
Continue readingcartoon life: Shaggy baggy cat 2
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Continue readingcartoon life: Figure gestures
Some gesture drawings from last night colored and treated in Procreate. Filed under: art, digital, drawings Tagged: Figure
Continue readingcartoon life: Ocean Views eBook lost at sea
Update May 8 2012 ”Thank you for submitting your request to update your content. Your change request has been denied.” 🙁 Are there no hints? Suggestions? Guidelines? The Ocean Views eBook can be downloaded directly from here. Filed under: art, book, digital, drawing, drawings, good stuff, illustration, iPad, painting Tagged: art, cloud, illustration, iPad,
Continue readingcartoon life: Cat blob
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Continue readingcartoon life: tonights caricature job
I don’t ever have a chance to photograph the work on these jobs. I grabbed the quick chance tonight. Everyone was done up Hippy style, or period. The moustache was perfect, but a disguise! Didn’t recognize him without the Afro. That was really big hair. Filed under: caricature, cartoon, comment,
Continue readingcartoon life: Ocean Views eBook
The Ocean Views eBook can be downloaded directly from here. It seems to be stalled stubbornly under review, so may not be available through the iTunes book store. Once you have the download completed, drag the file onto iTunes, then sync your iPad. The objection—repeated boilerplate—from review staff is that: “Books must
Continue readingcartoon life: grassy cat
from the new Paper app Filed under: art, digital, drawings Tagged: 100 cats
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Taxonomy of things
Taxonomy of Things, a photo by lunchbreath on Flickr. This is extremely helpful, but the taxonomy is not complete. I believe it should also include the following, which can be slotted in existing branches: thingamabob thingamajig junk junk ‘n stuff … Continue reading →
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