Congrats to the Heat

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Guthlac

Well they’ve done it and finally won the NBA Championship Not five nor Six but one. Just wonder how many they will win after all. Anyway, over the past few weeks I have become more and more interested in graphic novel art work and so I though I would try and draw Lebron James only problem is this looks like James in a few years time when perhaps is superb body is now not quite as slim as it was. This of course is one of the fun side effects of trying to draw things with a pen and ink – very difficult to correct errors.

Anyway, congratulations to the Heat and LeBron James.

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Jimmy Carr row: ok for Jimmy Carr to be put through the shrewder but not the PM

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Guthlac
Seems like the PM is happy to moan about other people’s tax affairs but won’t let the public know about his own.  I think there is a strange smell rising….

Jimmy Carr row: No 10 set to shelve plan to publish ministers’ tax returns
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jun/21/jimmy-carr-ministers-tax-returns

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Messing around with the iPhone

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Guthlac
There is a purpose to all this – isn’t there always?   Possibly – anyway the iPhone.   There is no two ways around it the iPhone is one of the most awful cameras I have had the mispleasure to use.   Now this is strange for me as I used to rave about the crudeness of the images and this was true with the 3G where the poor quality added to the interest of the image.   There is only one camera worse than the iPhone camera and that is the iPad camera.   

I know that the iPhone is now one of the most used cameras anywhere and of course there is a reason for that – there are so many of them around but the quality of the jpeg produced by the camera is not that good.   That being said I have made many images with the camera on the phone and when used for ref purposes they are fine.  Just don’t use them to make anything serious.

So here are 4 examples of the images I have made with the iPhone.

Simon Marchini 

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Life Drawing – Well done Zite

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Guthlac
I suppose you can’t have everything.  I use the news feed site zite a lot, perhaps too much.  The site, in common with a number of other such sites, is it goes out into the internet and finds news items that you might be interested in given a set criteria which you set.  One of the criteria I have set is for drawing and so this is one of the news items/sites it has produced for my information.

Yes it is about life drawing but some how I think things got lost in translation! 

Life Drawing
http://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/drawing.htm

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Apple store v independent retailers

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Guthlac
So perhaps Apple isn’t the great white knight after all …. Hope my prejudice isn’t showing too much.  Seriously,  Apple are a wonderfully run company producing fantastic computers etc and making vast profits as a consequence.  They are not some fluffy loveable little puppy of a company.

Arizona???s iStores close up shop as another Apple retailler bites the dust
http://9to5mac.com/2012/06/20/arizonas-istores-close-up-shop-as-another-apple-retailler-bites-the-dust/

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Examples of Illustration

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Guthlac
There are some really talented people out there.

Examples of Illustration and Hand Drawn Artworks
http://www.graphicmania.net/examples-of-illustration-and-hand-drawn-artworks/

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Work in Progress

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Guthlac

This is the largest canvass painting I have done and I have another session to complete it. I guess you could say this is the under painting only I really like the looseness. However, I do have to resolve the two right feet!

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Learning things about oil pastels

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Guthlac

I have had these oil pastels for a while now and have not really got to grip with them. So today I thought I would have another go and this is the result. There are things I would improve but overall I think it is not a bad attempt – especially when compared to what I had done in the past.

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Brushes Painting…oh no it’s not

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Guthlac

Just cannot create anything at all using Brushes anymore. These two sketches were made using a pencil and pen on paper – so much more rewarding.

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iPhoneography, the worlds #1

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Guthlac
Some really great photos

iPhoneography, the worlds #1 iPhone photography blog, bringing you the latest news, reviews and events – iPhone Journal – This week “Through the Lens of an iPhone”
http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2012/6/17/this-week-through-the-lens-of-an-iphone.html

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