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Monday, April 02, 2007

Cartoonish figure drawing MORE

Well, mailing A - J on the Pictoplasma list (oh and I forgot to tell you, all the London members with a profile picture on Mojizu) paid off: around 5 new members and ONE RSVPed YES!!!!

Thanks to Alex Hughes (who sadly, lives in Birmingham so he probably won't be able to come along generally) for sending me this link to: Dr Sketchy

"We combed New York to find the most beautiful burlesque dancers, the most bizarre circus freaks, and the most rippling hunks of man. Then, every other Saturday, we let you draw them for three hours." Check out the Dr Sketchy Gallery

They're aiming for sexy in a light hearted way. Not sure I'm into the whole erotic arts thing (probably because I'm not a man) or the voyeuristic 'circus freaks' bit but I like the costumes.

Might go for a change!
- I could walk around on my knees wearing a long black coat and pretend I'm Toulouse Lautrec

re VENUE

Am following up a new lead at a place called the Hub just behind Angel tube station. Looks like it's perfect. It's not too arty and not too rent-a-nylon-carpet. The idea is that freelancers can drop in and work with other freelancers if they feel like it. For people who don't have their own office basically. Only £15 per hour in a room for 15 people.

Labels: angel tube, cartoon, dr sketchy, figure drawing, mojizu, pictoplasma, the hub

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Sunday, April 01, 2007

Progress on the cartoon figure drawing group

Cartoon drawing group now has around 15 non-spammy members.
Tonight I emailed character designers with names from 'A' to 'J' in the UK section on Pictoplasma.com which was very very boring, trying to spread the word about the group. Unfortunately you can't narrow down to 'London' on Picto. Kind of a mad thing to do but it would be great to get a few of the Picto character designers coming along. I noticed that Pictoplasma has closed the submissions to its archive! I haven't submitted anything for a while, because last time I did, they added the characters on but then deleted all the ones already in my section. Plus, I started using Mojizu where it's more fun to get votes and with the possibility of selling a t-shirt. I truly admire the Pictoplasma people though, for their heartfelt passion which I saw first hand when I went to the 1st Pictoplasma Conference in 2004 in Berlin.
Anyway, my friend Mish has committed to coming to the drawing group and a guy called Graham so if the worst comes to the worst and no-one else RSVPs 'yes' then we can meet at Hyde Park and draw outside (weather permitting) to save on the cost of the studio hire.
Talking of spam, a strange and mysterious member joined up today with a funny image something to do with the US elections. I googled it and it seems to be a sort of cult cartoon octopus alien / devil called CTHULHU. Dunno what that's all about... I hope it's nothing with dark undertones (must buy garlic).
Will post on some boards about the my drawing group. Only three weeks till the first session now.

Labels: cartoon, character designer, cthulhu, drawing, figure drawing, mojizu, pictoplasma, pictoplasma conference

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Sunday, March 11, 2007

Thoughts about Mojizu

I like Mojizu. Obviously I spose, as it's crammed full of characters!
I mean I like using it as well as looking at the character gallery. It's interesting to see how many points one character gets compared to another (of your own and of other people's). The ones I thought would be most popular weren't!

My most popular characters are: Candy Floss Rabbit and Rainbow Capricorn. However, they're not that popular compared to the top rated characters on the site. There's alot of competition, including from well known illustrators. Not sure if people rally around their friends to vote too? Another factor: my taste isn't necessarily a match to the taste of the majority of users on there because my favourite mojizu artists don't always get the highest ratings.

Good site to use, with a useful blog about the world of character design and a nice community feel.

Labels: blog, candy floss rabbit, character, characters, community, design, mojizu, points, popular, rainbow capricorn, rating

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Thursday, September 28, 2006

Imeldapede

Well, it's 10.30 at night and I'm at my friends house, babysitting their two children and guinea pigs and feeling very very sleeeeeeepy.

Did a little bit of drawing tonight feeling pretty rusty. Trying to work out the right kind of head for a character called Imeldapede who is a sort of pantomime millipede. She's not the kind of girl who keeps her Jimmy Choos in a cupboard!! Just a had a micro brainwave! I could put her on mojizu in three sections to show that she is long, long, long [you normally upload one character per picture but I could upload a third of a character per picture!].

Yesterday and the day before I added some Adsense Adunits to my website. The first time I tried anything like that... I rather like them. They show that my site means business... I think they authenticate it in a funny way. They pick up on certain keywords on my site, like "balloon" which is OK, but it's funny because the ads are for really kitsch things like balloon wedding bouquets. But it works, because those are things that inspired me to make mad balloon character sculptures in the first place! So it all works. Luckily I'm into anything goes, and the more the merrier. Make the site a bizarre bazaar.

That's enough for now, back to Imeldapede's visage. Well, maybe she can just have a millipede head - yikes!

Labels: adsense, insect, millipede, mojizu, shoes

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