- StumbleUpon Conrad Roset makes the most gorgeous watercolor illustrations. And the – what might seem – random splash of color just gives it that finishing touch. Conrad Roset is a 26 years old illustrator from Barcelona, Spain. Via mood proekt The Civilized Explorer 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! Um. Anyway, I found all I could really do was try to explain ways to teach yourself...and then add some pictures.
Polaris Music Prize The 2009 Polaris Music Prize Winner - Fucked Up Artist: Fucked UpAlbum: The Chemistry Of Common LifeFrom: TorontoLinks:Website So people say Canadian songwriting is ironic and distanced? Carl Wilson, Globe And Mail, Toronto The 2009 Polaris Music Prize Short List Nominees Artist: Elliott BROODAlbum: Mountain MeadowsFrom: TorontoLinks:Website Mountain Meadows has the old-shoe familiarity that’s essential to good roots music, but there’s something wild and dangerous around the edges that flashes like heat lightning and crackles like ozone. Jill Wilson, Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg Artist: Great Lake SwimmersAlbum: Lost ChannelsFrom: TorontoLinks:Website Lost Channels isn’t a record you listen to. Amanda Ash, freelance journalist, Vancouver Artist: Hey Rosetta! From Newfoundland you say? Roch Parisien, Galaxie Folks Roots, Ottawa Artist: K'NAANAlbum: TroubadourFrom: TorontoLinks:Website My first experience with K’NAAN’s Troubadour album was a complete revelation. Robert Benson, Bravo, Toronto
Tutorial Tuesday: Foreshortening Tricks Hi folks! Tutorial Tuesday is going to be a basic one – I’m a bit under the weather currently so this may not be the best post, but I want to give you something that I feel is important in the world of drawing – some pointers on foreshortening. Check this out. Foreshortening is basically an optical illusion created from a compressed looking drawing in perspective. This perspective is distorted in order to create a false sense of depth, and is used a lot in comics – Superman flying with his outstretched arm coming out of the page, or a fist connecting with a villain’s face, etc. These comic drawings you see that appear to come off the page use some form of foreshortening to create that illusion. There’s several ways artists choose to render their drawings using foreshortening. Receding Plane Technique Scruffy Ronin uses a method that relies on a drawing a flat plane that recedes into space as a boundary. Five Points in Foreshortening Size, Overlapping Shapes, and Surfaces Blocks and Circles
Spinoza, Benedict De Benedict de Spinoza was among the most important of the post-Cartesian philosophers who flourished in the second half of the 17th century. He made significant contributions in virtually every area of philosophy, and his writings reveal the influence of such divergent sources as Stoicism, Jewish Rationalism, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Descartes, and a variety of heterodox religious thinkers of his day. For this reason he is difficult to categorize, though he is usually counted, along with Descartes and Leibniz, as one of the three major Rationalists. Among philosophers, Spinoza is best known for his Ethics, a monumental work that presents an ethical vision unfolding out of a monistic metaphysics in which God and Nature are identified. Table of Contents 1. Spinoza came into the world a Jew. The young Spinoza, given the name Baruch, was educated in his congregation's academy, the Talmud Torah school. Spinoza's intellectual reorientation, however, came at a cost. 2. 3. a. i. ii. iii. b. i. ii.
Retour sur le lancement de Monogrenade et critique du disque! - Baz'Art Virtuel Bien le bonjour, BangBangeux et BangBangeuses! Hier soir, à la Casa del popolo, c’était jampack, comme qu’on dit dans’vie. Pourquoi tant de gens présents ? Parce que Monogrenade lançait son premier album complet, Tantale. Le public avait été divisé en deux séances, l’une à 18h pour les médias et la famille, et une autre à 19h30 pour la plèbe…(ceci est une blague). Bref, ce fut un bien beau lancement du côté médiatique. En passant, c'est pas moi qui cadre croche. Et maintenant, une petite critique du disque parce qu’il le faut bien. [En partant, + 22 à la pochette de Christophe Collette et les illustrations sous-marines de feu Ernst Haeckel.] Bien que, dans les dernières années, on reprochait parfois à Monogrenade de s’approcher du son de Karkwa, Radiohead ou Patrick Watson, je crois qu’on peut déjà éliminer les deux derniers, desquels ils se sont distancés avec Tantale. Je donne facilement un 3 étoiles et demi (sur cinq, bien sûr) pour Tantale.