Click to enlarge! On throughout May! Show starts tomorrow! Check SONSI for more deets!!!!1!eleventy!!
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Original artwork on The Flying Trilobite Copyright to Glendon Mellow
under Creative Commons Licence.
Friday, 29 April 2011
Starts Tomorrow!
Click to enlarge! On throughout May! Show starts tomorrow! Check SONSI for more deets!!!!1!eleventy!!
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
My atheist billboard
The Freedom from Religion Foundation has a fast, neat little application to make your own atheist billboard. Mine's above and you can see more of them here. I learned about it from radio-show host Mike Haubrich.
When thinking about a quote, I thought about how a lot of people will possibly reference science or morality for these quotes (you can see them all here). As an artist and an atheist, I thought I would try to sum-up some of the feelings I wrote about it in this post two years ago: Gift from God? I don't think so.
In the post, addressing the 'compliment' of artistic ability being a 'gift', I said;
Just because something is hard to understand, just because complicated processes occurred that you did not witness, does not mean it was caused by a benevolent mythical being who hands out aptitudes like Santa with presents...
...That was studying. That was attempts at keen observation. That was making countless mistakes I attempted to learn from. Feedback. Crits and criticisms. Learning from indifference. Trying new materials. Replicating happy accidents. Sharing techniques.
I received a lot of support in the comments. When I re-posted it at my RedBubble (online store) account, I ended up with concern trolls.
Far too many artists believe in the divine - probably more in New Age nonsense than organized religion, though there are plenty of those types too. "Meant to be" is the cause of many happy accidents to many artists, when in fact, happy accidents have a lot more in common with Richard Dawkins' ratcheting up Mount Improbable: you hang on to the successes, duplicate them as close as you can and eliminate the artistic attempts that fail in your eyes. Developing a skill, technique and style in art has a lot in common with natural selection.
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Original artwork on The Flying Trilobite Copyright to Glendon Mellow
under Creative Commons Licence.
Monday, 25 April 2011
Trilobite Boy Tumblr
Trilobite Boy now has his own Tumblr.
After a lot of discussion and suggestions from various peeps on Twitter and elsewhere, I thought Tumblr might be a good way to collect the new Trilobite Boy daily sketches. I've made some of my feelings about Tumblr before, and the culture of non-credited artwork that seems to exist there: so this will be an experiment for me.
Do more eyeballs actually translate to greater popularity (and hopefully, as an artist who needs to eat, revenue)?
Saturday, 23 April 2011
Trilobite Boy Daily Sketch #2 - Waking
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The second daily sketch that's part of my new regimen. I'm giving myself a 30 minute time limit for each sketch in the Trilobite Boy story in an attempt to loosen up and in some cases, sharpen my style. And quite frankly, to crank this story out. As a new dad with other items on the go, it's been pushed back far enough.
What do you think?
First Trilobite Boy Daily Sketch is here.
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Original artwork on The Flying Trilobite Copyright to Glendon Mellow
under Creative Commons Licence.
Friday, 22 April 2011
Daily Regimen
Since our little scamp was born at the end of December, it's been difficult to maintain routines. This week, I plan on going back to being an early-riser by getting up everyday at 5:30 to draw, paint or sketch for 30 minutes, even if I go back to bed afterward.
I'm not going to restrict myself to what little sketch I'll do, but then again: what better way to make some headway on the Trilobite Boy story than this in my time-crunched schedule?
At the moment, I'm envisioning Trilobite Boy less of a traditional comic book and more of a series of captioned illustrations, tied to a single narrative. Let's see how it goes.
Day 1, click to enlarge:
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At the moment, I'm envisioning Trilobite Boy less of a traditional comic book and more of a series of captioned illustrations, tied to a single narrative. Let's see how it goes.
Day 1, click to enlarge:
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| Trilobite Boy - Late. 2011, ArtRage. © Glendon Mellow, share under Creative Commons, see sidebar. |
Original artwork on The Flying Trilobite Copyright to Glendon Mellow
under Creative Commons Licence.
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
Dimetrodon-Sphinx - a continuing wip
Still playing with digitally colouring this image of a Dimetrodon Sphinx. It's become an idle work to spend a few minutes on when I need to take a break from more pressing projects.
I think I'd like to use her as a character in the Trilobite Boy story. That's coming along, but I'm starting to think it will be more of an illustrated story than full-on comic with my schedule.
Most recent dabble at the top, older descending. Click to enlarge.
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Original artwork on The Flying Trilobite Copyright to Glendon Mellow
under Creative Commons Licence.
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