Bringing Animals to Life cartoon workshop
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery have asked Jonathan Cusick to repeat the animal cartoon workshop he ran during this year’s cartoon festival, during the October half term. ‘Bringing Animals to Life’ is on Halloween, 31st October. It’s one of the activities they’ve ran to tie in with a major exhibition by local comic leg-end Charlie […]
Drawing in the air
Technology moves on all the time and there is no reason drawing shouldn’t be part of change. For evidence, the crowd sourced fundraising platform Kickstarter is currently hosting a novel adaptation of the 3D printing technology from a startup called WobbbleWorks. You can watch a short video about what their 3D pen can do below. It […]
Tools for displaying drawing
Bloghorn enjoyed this video from Procartoonists.org member Alex Matthews on his working processes. We asked him about it and he told us. I always draw in Photoshop with a Wacom pad. I prefer to use paper, lightbox and a dip-pen and ink, but I find this is a massive time-saver and I can get results […]
Round up: What the Bloghorn saw
Rob Murray writes: Music by The Smiths has inspired a comics collection, Unite and Take Over, due for release in November. Smiths fan Shawn Demumbrum of Phoenix, Arizona has assembled 13 creative teams to interpret songs by the band as comic strips, each three or four pages in length. Demumbrum, who is currently looking for […]
Express yourself
The cartoonist behind the award-winning webcomic Lackadaisy, Tracy J. Butler, has produced a brief guide to drawing expressions. The guide, which includes tips about unlearning bad habits, reference, loose sketching and, of course, practice is one of a number of guides showing how Butler produces, draws, colours and finishes her comic. Lackadaisy, the story of anthropomorphic […]
The Illusionist – Review
PCOer The Surreal McCoy writes with a short review of The Illusionist, the new film by Sylvain Chomet. The perfect antidote to Hollywood’s current obsession with computer-generated 3D imagery, The Illusionist is the latest animated feature from Sylvain (Belleville Rendez-vous) Chomet. I defy anyone to watch dry-eyed as the poignant story of an ageing magician trying […]
Score draw
The legal battles over control of image rights and licensing may have benefit for those who can draw. England’s Plymouth Herald newspaper found it could not use the work of its press photographer at local club Plymouth Argyle’s away match at Southampton FC. This is because of licensing restrictions imposed on non-home club image makers at the […]
Drawing expresses ideas well
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New drawing website folds
The Campaign for Drawing – the group behind such events as the Big Draw and the Battle of the Cartoonists – have launched a website to encourage the general public to get their pencils out called Draw and Fold Over. The site is an update of the Exquisite Corpse parlour game, where the player first […]