A pic from London
Art
Every once in a while, I do artwork. These are posts related to that.
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London by night, from the London Bridge (click for larger image) -
Quick dragon sketch
Quick dragon sketch Was noodling around with a dragon to add to a Metaplace world I was fiddling with, and sketched this. Then I ran it thru a few Photoshop filters. Been a long time since I put a doodle up on the blog, so here it is.
This was done first with Adobe Sketchbook Pro on my tablet, using “pencils” “airbrush” and “paintbrush.” Then I brought it into Photoshop and filtered one layer with charcoal, another with craquelure, and blended the two together with around a 60% opacity. For comparison, the dragon’s head used to look like this.
His wings don’t line up. Oh well. 🙂
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Sweeney
We watched Sweeney Todd tonight. The kids had my tablet PC in the room, so I grabbed it and doodled a bit. Then they got ahold of it. It was a bad end for one Pokemon who got the closest shave of his life, and perhaps ended up in a meat pie.
Was a bit disappointed that “More Meat Pies!” wasn’t in there. Or this lyric, which has stuck in my head ever since some of our friends in college staged this musical as their senior project.
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd
He served a dark and a vengeful god
He shaved the faces of gentlemen
Who never thereafter were heard from again
We’d been telling the kids for weeks about those two bits, singing them over and over…
So, why can the kids watch this with us, but not GTA? Good question. Perhaps because Rockstar just isn’t Sondheim for me yet.
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Gorgeous retro arcade images
Rosemarie Fiore has some really beautiful time-lapse sort of images of old arcade games. I am particularly taken by Gyruss, Tempest, and Qix. I want!
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