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Jason Learns How To Draw
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2008.01.14 20.22
The Greatest Meme.
Bold talk, calling it "the greatest meme," but who can argue with this for all the benevolent educational awesomeness it'll produce?
beatonna just finished drawing 20 comics about historical figures, and now the gauntlet has been thrown, and a whole slew of people are jumping on board to do the same, but for different subjects, from literature to sports to comics, and more. Against my better judgment: Count me in!
I'll take the first twenty comments about scientific principles and draw comics about them. Lasers! Botfly gestation! Hawking radiation! Quantum mechanics! Bring it ON.
(Science. Who can resist SCIENCE?)
EDIT: The list is complete! Thank you all. Stay tuned for... 1. Human Attraction 2. The Fundamental Theorem of Combinatorial Enumeration 3. Cold Fusion 4. Delta-32 Mutation 5. Quantum Double-Slit Experiment 6. Evolution 7. Ant Pheremones 8. Fitt's Law 9. Stem Cell Research 10. Strong vs. Weak Nuclear Bonds 11. The Periodic Table of the Elements 12. Bernoulli's Principle 13. The Coriolis Effect 14. Prisms 15. Phylogenetic Systematics 16. Exothermic Chemical Reactions 17. Background Radiation of the Universe 18. Prions 19. Something To Do With Parasites 20. Echolocation
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2007.12.15 00.13
Meeeeeeme? Meme. (FIVE QUESTIONS.)
No fancy exposition here, because it's late. Waaaaay back in early August(!), I volunteered to be asked five questions by shumashi in some LJ meme, with the intent of answering in comics form. This month, I picked up a homebrew cartridge and a truly amazing little drawing program for the Nintendo DS after reading about it on a blog somewhere. The nice thing is that there's an associated Java app (by Ben Jaques) that can re-render your paint strokes at larger resolutions, or let you playback the paintings in faster than real-time.
So, after much dalliance (I've been rather busy), I've started to draw the answers on the DS. It's a bit of a challenge, what with the newness of playing with color...with no layers and no undo...but I figure it's a fun experiment to learn the ropes and doodle in free time.
I'll put all of the answers in this post, with a new notice as each is finished, so if you check back, they'll all be in one place.
1. What's the best meal you've ever eaten? I really hope this didn't come across as picking a fight with vegetarians.

( ..and the other four questions. )
Same rules apply. Want to play the game? Ask in the comments if you'd like me to come up with five questions for you, and I'll oblige.
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2007.10.20 00.08
24 HOURS WITH FOURTEEN ARTISTS. Insanity. Hilarity ensues?
This Saturday (and Sunday), starting at 10am MST, I'm doing a 24-hour-comics day, against my better judgment, at Night Flight Comics with the likes of jatg and jimmytrout, others from slcomix, and possibly some "professional" comickers, too. I don't know if I'll have internet down there, but feel free to post random ideas here, and I'll refer to the comments here (if I can) when the creativity well is running dry in the long, dark teatime of 2:30am.
Wish me luck. Or just cluck your tongue at me. It's all good.
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2007.09.16 15.04
(SCA != LARP) ...or so I'm guessing.
jimmytrout is fascinated by the SCA, so he proposed a sketch night at Sugarhouse Park to draw the local knights and fencers.

That looks nothing like jimmytrout, but he was moving his head faster than the fencing swords behind him.
Then, yesterday, I was riding past Liberty Park, and there was a gaggle of LARPers making funny voices and hitting each other with boffers. The difference between the two groups? The local SCA seems to take their re-enacting far more seriously—they had actual suits of actual armor. The LARP participants had actual suits of actual cardboard. (Take your pick on which is more endearing.)
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2007.09.16 12.28
I'm not dead yet.
Here's the first of a couple artdumps.

It's a bit of a crosspost with slcomix but these (sometimes friends-only) artdumps will have more commentary.
jimmytrout challenged me at one of the SLC RoCo meetups to draw 10 minutes every day for a week. He kept it up a whole lot better than I did, but ( here are the results... )
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2007.03.16 23.22
Not Penrod Pulaski Day
Andy, I'm sorry I missed your day. I even had printed your wonderful bit of self-deconstruction, but the insomnia doodles in the wee hours of Friday morning were only of Sufjan's sad, sad song.

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2007.03.12 22.58
My first ever life-drawing class.
As much as I love to draw, I've never done an actual nude life-drawing session until this past weekend, while visiting the Bay Area. On Saturday, Kate let me tag along to her regular drop-in life-drawing session on the Berkeley campus (in Kroeber Hall).
I was a bit nervous, to be honest, more of trying not to look like an idiot among these "real" artists than anything else, but it turned out not to be a big deal at all. The first poses were underway when we stepped in, and so we just dived into drawing. During the breathers, I'd ask Kate (who has far more experience in life-drawing) for pointers, and peek at the amazing renders on the canvases around us. Some people were sketching precise crosshatched contours with microns; one woman was even watercoloring with her fingers and a fat brush, if I remember it.
( Figure sketches behind the cut... )
I probably ought to pick up that Force book, too, before I go again... whenever that may be. (Thanks, Kate! This was fun.)
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2007.01.25 07.47
Sundance '07 Sketches, Round 1
One of the nice things about living in SLC is the Sundance Film Festival. We won't see Pan's Labyrinth in local theaters until February, but that's because the local theaters (even here in the heart of the city, miles from the freezing Los Angelinos and fur-coat-chic Park City) are stocked to the brim with festival entries and all sorts of indie goodness. I was able to score a few tickets early thanks to shumashi, and saw the first two the other night.
( One was very, very good, and the other was insane. ) Tonight, I'll be seeing an Australian cop drama called Noise that sounded good (har, no pun intended), and Friday Sunday is the zany New Zealand romcom Eagle vs. Shark.
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