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A common foible of learning to work in ink is accepting the fact that ink is not pencil. Most of us learn how to draw ("properly") with pencils, so it's the implement that we are most comfortable. Ink is obviously much less forgiving.

I held individual meetings with my 2nd year Cartooning students today and recommended to all of them to keep an Ink Only sketchbook over the summer. No pencil or preparatory drawings allowed. Experimenting with the media in a very pure form will help you learn what is and what is not possible. It's a matter of adaptation and working with the media's strengths. Very zen.

(I actually stole this idea from Sam, who kept an Ink Only sketchbook in the summer between 3rd and 4th year. He improved dramatically. )

This drawing is from a similar sketchbook I'm keeping now, experimenting with washes and painting.

Cultists 8 (The End.)

Cultists 7

Cultists 6

Cultists 5

Cultists 4

Cultists 3

Cultists

Mountain Woman

Strange Picture

Live, Laugh, Learn

New Year's Resolution 2010

Pencil Factory Draw Fest

Here are some scans of the collaborations we did last weekend. They went out to the first 100 orders of Newsprint (offer sold out). I'm not sure who remixed these, but I think most of them are me and Chris Neal, Josh Cochran, Rachel Salomon and PF intern Katie Turner. I just love some of these! More here.

Shiny

Taste Professionals

Twin Set

Spoonism

Spoon Family

The Connoisseur

In my humble opinion, one of the best things about New York is Street Treasure. People here place things out on the sidewalk, not as garbage necessarily, but with the full assumption that someone will likely pick it up... furniture, old computer stuff, etc. In fact, if it's NOT meant to be picked up, it'll be marked as such. (Broken. BEDBUGS.)

Found a bunch of late 1960s fashion and gossip rags the other day. DID YOU KNOW PAUL McCARTNEY AND JANE ASHER ON THE ROCKS?!! YES! AGAIN!

Rest of the Sculpey's

Note: these weren't actually made with Sculpy™, but rather Das Modeling Clay.

Sculpey Fun

I'm an incredibly terrible sculptor. Anything 3D, really. But sometimes it's good to do stuff you suck at. I think they're kind of cute.