Say What? A Brief Audio History of Lyrics That Aren’t Lyrics
What do Elton John, Seal and Eminem all have in common? Well, apart from fame, they all have hit songs with lyrics that aren’t actually words. This short video clip spans 49 years of nonsense lyrics from 26 different songs. It’s pretty amazing how recognizable nonsense can be. MORE: The Top 10 Songs With Silly Lyrics
How to get GOOD at drawing
I made a mini-comic to answer the question I get more than any other.
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List of emoticons
A simple smiley This is a list of notable and commonly used emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's mood or facial expression in the form of icons. The Western use of emoticons is quite different from Eastern usage, and Internet forums, such as 2channel, typically show expressions in their own ways. In recent times, graphic representations, both static and animated, have taken the place of traditional emoticons in the form of icons. Emoticons can generally be divided into two groups: Western or Horizontal (mainly from America and Europe), and Eastern or Vertical (mainly from east Asia). Western The emoticon in Western style is written most often from left to right as though the head is rotated counter-clockwise 90 degrees. Eastern Eastern emoticons generally are not rotated, and may include non-Latin characters to allow for additional complexity. Unicode characters References
how to draw female comic characters (according to Wizard)...
brown_betty asked for examples "to illustrate the exactly how and why female comic characters are illustrated differently than the male." And I thought, really, what's better to illustrate these things than the books teaching the style in the first place? A while ago I posted some scans from Wizard How To Draw series on drawing female superheroes (here and here), and I thought I'd post a bunch more from the first book of the series on "How To Draw: Heroic Anatomy". As everything, it starts with the basics, i.e. proportions. The female example is similar, but slightly different, notice how he stands firm and straight, wheras she stands with her hips cocked a little and the leg thrust forward? Also notice in the direct torso comparison below, how the male one is ramrod straight, but she curves and leans just a little bit in the same pose? Now onwards to the chapter "Sultry Women". Next, Michael Turner explains "Sex Appeal".
Creative Street Art
Creative Street Art September 20th, 2011 | Inspiration | Incredible street art created by talented French artist OaKoAk shows popular fictional characters integrated into the urban environment. Bart Simpson, Pinocchio, Spider-Man, and other characters all interact with traffic lights, cracks in the walls, and random objects on the street. For more art, check out: 3D Pavement Art and 3D Chalk Drawings Share this Page: Elphi This is absolutely amazing! Add Your Comment
Heartfelt Calvin & Hobbes Documentary Will Make You Feel Like a Kid Again
What’s your favorite Calvin & Hobbes comic? You have one. Everyone has one: the Snow Goons, or the Transmogrifier, or Spaceman Spiff, or careening through the woods on that little red wagon. Rooted in filmmaker Joel Allen Schroeder’s lifelong adoration of the strip, Dear Mr. Bill Watterson himself doesn’t appear in the documentary, but he doesn’t really need to. Watterson’s career also offers Schroeder a vehicle to explore the evolution and current state of comic strips. Photo courtesy DMW Press As a cultural artifact, Calvin & Hobbes is inseparable from its medium. But Calvin & Hobbes has neither waned along with newspapers, nor carved out a digital home alongside strips like Doonesbury. This last choice is among the most controversial of Watterson’s career, and one that’s set him at odds with many of his contemporaries.
Lackadaisy Expressions
Boy, I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I started this. I've had requests for some sort of expressions tutorial dating back a while now, so I figured, "Sure! I can explain expression drawing...and it'll be way better than all those tutorials out there that are nothing but charts of generic expressions. Yeah! Just give me a day or two to whip something up..." Um. Anyway, I found all I could really do was try to explain ways to teach yourself...and then add some pictures.
Copper - Step-by-Step
After finishing up the pencils, tightening up the dialogue and any difficult-to-manage shapes (fine details) with the pencil, I use a 03 Staedtler Pigment Liner pen to letter the comic. Microns are also a good choice, although they tend to rub off a bit when erasing over the lines. I prefer to hand letter my pages because I like to have control over each image's composition in the drawing stage. Since dialogue takes up so much room in a panel, I treat the letters like images. I also like it for the more organic control over the volume and flow of the characters' dialogue. After the lettering is finished, I move on to the panel borders. The trusty old Hunt no. 102 Crow Quill nib pen. I began using the crow quill in middle school, when a guy at the local art store told me he was Rob Liefeld's friend, and that Liefeld used these babies to ink his pages. I make my way down the page from left to right, not necessarily in order, but in a way I can avoid running my drawing hand over the ink.
mental_floss Blog » Image Macros: Intro to LOL Cats
I've long been interested in Image Macros , which are best described as web based images with text superimposed on them. Okay, that's a poor description. Here's an example: Image Macros apparently started as web forum responses -- a way to respond to a message with an image containing some embedded textual content (the image at left says "Oh Really?") This week I'll explore some common forms of Image Macros. Many more after the jump. There are many varieties of LOL Cats (which are themselves a subgenre of Image Macros), and we'll explore some major forms starting tomorrow. Some of these images are snagged from I Can Has Cheezburger , a blog which catalogs all forms of LOL Cats (the blog is named after this image ). This article is part of a series.
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Funny Signs I Saw on Vacation
It started with one...really that's all it was, the first picture you'll see - and I had to take a picture of it, and then, well the signs seemed to be everywhere, and I knew they would make a great blog post so here you have it the Funny Signs I Saw on my 2011 Vacation - these were taken in a variety of locations including, Steveston, BC; Carcross, Yukon; and Juneau, AK. And my personal favorite...
