101 Projects for Artists and Illustrators. February 21st, 2007 Don’t know what to do with your extra time?
There are plenty of odd jobs and tasks that an illustrator can do in between assignments. If you’re looking for some inspiration, here’s a long list of projects, ideas, and necessary chores to help make your free time more productive. Tell a Story Many images are used to help a narrative, and as an illustrator it is important to keep developing this skill in your off-time. Make a book cover for your favorite classic novel.Create a series of illustrations that show the passage of time.Illustrate a song.Make a narrative advertisement for a soft drink.Illustrate your favorite childhood memory.Make a children’s book spread for a fairy tale.Illustrate the four seasons.Why did the chicken cross the road? Academic Exercises Time to get back into the classroom!
Practical Projects Don’t let the promotion and organization of your business get pushed aside. Creative Exercises Online Communities And Last But Not Least… Overcome Writer's Block, Suggestions To Get You Writing Again. ^ Back to top We use cookies, just to track visits to our website, we store no personal details.
ACCEPT COOKIES What are cookies? Login Overcoming Writer’s Block Writer’s Block can stop your creative efforts in their tracks and overcoming writer’s block is a tough task. Share: start Save Punch a key to Break the block Dial 1 for Settings Dial 2 for Characters Dial 3 for Dramatic Entrances Dial 4 for Dialogue Dial 5 to Commiserate Dial 6 for Verbs Dial 7 for Calisthenics Dial 8 to Kill a Character Dial 9 for Endings Dial 0 for More Help Think you can do better?
Dial for your Saved Tips to Start Writing Toggle Sound The September Challenge: Every End Has a Beginning is now OPEN to submissions The Winner of the August Challenge: Read it Well, is... The Truth by Ernest_Lee The following six are this month's runners up: • I'm Not Crazy by JedAnderson • Space Robot Five by Sprayoncrayon • The Paranoid Pair by Josafat •• Chilli Cheese Dogs by FinneanNilsen • Let Me Count the Ways by lightningpastry • Photo Tips and Techniques for Beginners. I remember the day I got my DSLR camera in the mail-- I had saved up for months to buy my little Nikon D40 and I watched the postal tracking code like my dog waits for her food in the mornings.
(So. Excited.) :) When my brown Amazon box finally came, my heart was beating so fast that I could barely cut open the tape. I took out the Nikon and held it in my hands-- that weight and feel is so familiar to me today. I started taking pictures right away, the same photos that everyone takes with a new camera: everything that is in direct sight. My hands, the countertop, the microwave, my feet, the cat, a pile of newspapers. Ten minute no-sew recycled t-shirt bag! Tutorial time!
I got a gig teaching a recycled t-shirt project at the library a few months ago, with a request for a recycled tee bag – the only bags I’d made from tees in the past had required sturdy sewing, and I didn’t want hand-sewing to be the only thing holding the bottom closed in a class version of the bags, so I started brainstorming about some kind of hand-sewing-friendly or no-sew bag idea…. and here’s what I came up with! The simplest version of these bags is great for smaller tees, or the more light-weight kind of girl-tees – just turn the bottom of the shirt into a drawstring and tie it closed! As you can see, even with a not huge tee, this will still leave a significant hole in the bottom of your bag, but for purposes like grocery shopping, this size hole shouldn’t really matter… But to make smaller holes, just make more than one of them!
Here’s a bag bottom with 2 holes: You could make it rounded, V-shaped, or squared like this one:
Sculptures Popping Out of Paintings - My Modern Metropolis - StumbleUpon. Oh, to have been in Tokyo in June!
Shintaro Ohata just finished up a solo exhibition at the Yukari Art Contemprary in Tokyo, Japan. This Hiroshima, Japan-born artist is known for his ability to show us everyday life in a cinematic way. He captures light in his paintings, showering the world, as we know it, with carefully placed strokes of it. "Every ordinary scenery in our daily lives, such as the rising sun, the beauty of a sunset or a glittering road paved with asphalt on a rainy night, becomes something irreplaceable if we think we wouldn’t be able to see them anymore," he told Yukari gallery. "I am creating works to capture lights in our everyday life and record them in the painting.”
More than that, this artist has a unique style. Straight from the Yukari gallery, here's a sample of his stellar work. ' Photos courtesy of Yukari Art Contemporary. Design Crush. Mary Magdalene｜メアリーマグダレン. LOOKBOOK.nu: collective fashion consciousness. Salvaged Grace.