Tip : Spot the Flaws with Flipped Images
Here’s a tip on using your computer to spot your drawing/painting flaws.  I was too lazy to grab my camera and take photos of two recent drawings that i did and used the webcam and Photo Booth instead.  What i got was the images reversed and what I saw was a whole bunch of flaws glaring back at me   This is another tool that I will use to spot mistakes in future.  I’ve put a the two examples side by side for you to see.  The first in each set is how you would view it and the second the mirror image.

Odosketch
Not sure whether I saw the reference to the Odosketch website on twitter, fb or one of the blogs I visited a few days back.   I surf with at least 15 odd tabs open on my browser and some remain open for days.  Back to the subject, Odosketch is an online sketchpad.  I’ve tried a few in the past which were not as responsive.  With the bandwith available now I’m sure the earlier sites will be snappy too.  I had fun trying this one out.  Used the trackpad to sketch as the wacom wasn’t handy.

Pattern : Illustration Friday
Pattern. Face after face. Follows a pattern, a formula.  Actually it is more like a guideline.  First to learn then to forget. I didn’t get that when I was learning it. How was I supposed to forget? The eyes to be centered from the top of the head to the chin and so on. I’m taking it into account but it’s not such a conscious decision anymore, more a part of the background conversation.   I remember talking to myself while positioning his ears though.

Underdogs
Looking forward to indulging myself for a while and going back to experimenting and learning.   I now have a fairly large image bank of photos taken by friends and me. When I saw the ref for this it brought to mind the image that you see above and must’ve seen before on posters etc..  I too feel sorry for the underdog.  Hope I start doing something about it too and soon. This is where I’m at so far and wondering how to pr

Honesty
I’m on week three, day two of the twelve week journaling programme from Julia Cameron’s book, “The Artists Way“.   All kinds of thoughts and ideas are bubbling into my head and spilling over into the notebooks filled with my out of practice, illegible handwriting.  I’m not so sure I’ll be able to decipher them at the end! Billy Joel’s song