100 Things To Draw Challenge

I set myself a challenge last year to draw at least a 100 things with separate themes. I failed miserably and only did 3 out of a 100 and they where crudely done.

So I'm going to try and do it again, and I'm going to set up a new blog for it. (They'll look really bad and will clog up my Deviatnart art if I put them all on there.) It will also be good for geting me to draw more. I tend to go through phases of what I want to do. (read, draw, write). I once didn't draw for three months and it made me rusty.

(will link the new blog here in a bit)

Some Great Work...

Some pieces of art and graphics I've stumbled across of late.

All art can be found over at Devaintart.com

First and for most, one of my favorite comic book artists: Skottie Young. His style never ceases to amaze and amuse me. Marvel is doing a series of Wolverine covers done by different artist drawing in the style of old school artists, he picked Edward Gorey. (Another great and differnt artist)
Skottie Young

Some likes Pocky a little too much I think. I can really see the style all the way through this design. However, it's adorable and a part of me still knows it's female and I have to grin at grahics like this.
designslave.deviantart.com

I thought this was sort of sweet, sorry.
1saint.deviantart.com

I live near this guy, it was quite peculair to find him over on DA. We where making CVs last year in my ND class and I was over whelmed by this design which he knocked in no amount of time. He's got a a real eye for design and I actually see him being big in the world of Graphic Design.
weyforth.deviantart.com

And because I like the look of good logos that work well. Besides, i like the colour scheme.
schakalwal.deviantart.com

Badass...

There's a really cool cartoonist over on Devaintart who drew my main character for me:

Annoyed character is annoyed... ;D

http://javas.deviantart.com

How Too...

More Information on my Design Practice Blog:

I had no binding tape so I used masking tape, magic tape and...*cough* toilet paper. It worked just as well so...

My sewing on this thing is appalling but it held it together so that's all that matters for the mock up version.

The first cover I made was streaky from ink running out and then bubbly from the glue so that was binned. The second one was the wrong measurements so that's now part of my experimentation work...But the 3rd one, after tips from my class mates...worked perfectly.

I have some typo's to fix on the main content of the book and then it should be complete.

What Is A line: Take A Million and one! Part 6

1. I am going to make a continuous time line using one solid black line that flows through the differnt periods of the dinosaurs. (Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous)
2. It is going to be presented in an accordion fold book.
3. There is going to be information on each dinosaur underneath it's outline.

(I hope this is enough for the statment of intent and for the three rules. I'll come back and add to it if not.)

Don't Panic!

For more information on this brief see my design practice blog: http://designpracticeofleigh.blogspot.com/

My comment: Children are often thought of as Pure... Children are growing up far too fast, defined by the mistakes and beliefs their Parents put on them. They are almost warped into these little machines that need to be updated and programmed on a regular basis. Unfortunately, machines can break.

I had ten minute to upload it and had written nothing, so word vomit happened.

Overall I am not pleased. I like the shorter briefs, but....I think it could have been better. Going to re work it for submission. I really appreciated the the helpful comments about working with differnt paper to print the design on. I'm also going to look into defining it more as an image.

Don't Panic: http://www.dontpaniconline.com/designaposter/entry/?id=5544