Admin Monday 24th SEPT 2012... Whaddya mean it's the 26th

Another round of announcements and links for the Galway Pub Scrawl! Sorry it's a bit late, it's been a crazy week.

Announcements:

We had an AMAZING time at our third birthday last Monday. Go back and check out the photos! There was Cake!

And our most recent partnership with 091 labs for Culture Night was last Friday. Check out those photos too!

We're fast approaching my plan for the next group-wide project - a little plan I like to think of as Sketchtoberfest! Check out the page for more details. :)

Linda pointed us in the direction of this interesting post by the Galway Continental Christmas Market... anyone have any ideas for us reaching out to them?

Also, everyone should go "like" Mykul's Sword Page on Facebook to help him beat someone else in the race of Likes. :)

New remote Scrawler, Joris Burla, filled the gap in our 31 Day Drawing Challenge - The Tarot - with this awesome pic of The Tower. Joris may be familiar to me from conceptart.org... then again, we're not saying. :P

Links:

If I were a Millionaire, I'ld soon be penniless buying Golden Age Illustration paintings...

I really liked these Origami-based artworks by Marc Fichou.

These photos by Dominik Smialowski made a weirdly poignant story...

I'm probably going to plump money for this awesome book by Aly Fell as my Christmas present to myself.

Also, you just have a few more days to investigate Top Shelf Comix' amazing annual sale!

Chris Schweizer offers these print-out-and-play Dr. Who designs!

I thought these photos of decay and fungi on the Jungle floor were beautiful.

We saw pictures of Pirates for Talk like a Pirate Day.

I found a fun Comics Jam tool on the internet.

And that was that! Make sure to tune in Monday for Galway Pub Scrawl #71 - Sketchtoberfest Begins!

Admin Monday 02 JUL 2012 - Drawing, drawing, drawing!

Hey y'all - we're just starting into our month of the Daily Drawing Challenge! Still - that's no excuse for slacking on administration! The rules control the fun, my friends.

Notices:

You can now be part of the Group on Google+. We'll have to work out how to keep that page as up to date as the facebook group, but we'll get there.

July is the Month of the 31-day drawing challenge!
Day One - Self Portraits
Day Two - Favourite Film


And - although it is technically a link - the guys had tons of fun with the Online Colour Challenge - give it a go & share your results in the comments! Some Pub Scrawlers got disgustingly low scores (lower is better).

Links:

James Gurney breaks down the Loomis scheme for tonal organisation in your pictures.

Jenni Sparks shows us how patient an artist can be with this hand-drawn map of London.

Mike Lee has a book coming - Bodega - which is a collection of cool cartoon drawings of the same corner once an hour over a 24 hour period.

Blade Runner - in watercolours!



Sharon Moody trompes your l'oeil - http://www.sharonmoody.com/.

And speaking of which, this 3-d effect art by Nagai Hideyuki is also pretty mindblowing.

Art & Science meet in Bodies in Space.

If you want to learn how to make animated GIFs, Anthony Holden shows you how!

Here in Galway, Daire Lynch Art is offering Life Drawing classes -

Greg Manchess gives you 10 tips for Portfolios!

Mary highlighted that Pixar are hiring.

And that's it for your updates! This month is the month of the drawing challenge, so this is it for Admin Mondays til August, but I reckon you'll have plenty to look at here on the Galway Pub Scrawl!

donalfall out.

Admin Monday 18th June 2012

Another fortnightly round up of the best links from the Pub Scrawl Facebook Page!

Notices:

Some of us are gathering together material to print a comic! We're using a "Secret" group on Facebook to organise at the moment, but it's no secret, just kept organised for the moment. If you follow through the group link to facebook and find me, send me a note and I'll add you if you're interested in joining this project. If you're not on facebook, send me an email (donalfall - at - gmail - dot - com) and I'll keep you updated. We'll be moving the group to it's own website or blog or whatever soon enough.

After our fun month of member focuses, we're thinking about doing a 30 day drawing challenge! Keep an eye on here & at the facebook group for more details as that evolves.

Links:
If you are (or know) someone under 21 who likes drawing Dragons, you can enter the contest over on The Dracopedia Project to win cool prizes. There's just a week left now, go for it!

I love these painterly works from Hiro Shisato.

Rich Pellegrino has an upcoming solo show.

Mike Hawthorne talked about how he approached making his latest Star Wars cover over on the Dark Horse blog.

The Powell's paintings are pretty sweet!

Unbelievably inspirational artworks are collected over on the, well, Inspirational Artworks blog.

Brandon Graham is giving away comics on his Tumblr in a contest - either reblog his post or enter his colouring contest.

Renae De Liz, one of my favourite artists, is in hospital with a serious infection. You can wish her and her husband, Ray Dillon, well on their respective blogs. You can help out with a donation, if you see fit, or show support by buying yourself a copy of Womanthology.

Adam Paquette's Sketchbook could beat up your sketchbook.

These old Pulp Novel Covers are crazy misogynistic, but they're pretty enjoyable.

Kevin Wueste kicks ass at the whole life drawing thing.

Justin Gerard is calling for Wacom to bring innovation in Digital Painting to the next level.

That's your bunch of links!

donalfall out.

The other monday

So a quick line on updates as is usual for the monday in between Scrawls. Hmmmm...

Oh yeah, okay. So there are two *great* art blogs that I think you guys might get a kick out of. I've been reading these guys for an age, but there's no better time to jump aboard.

Leif Peng runs this great blog which is called Today's Inspiration his routes, wanderings and explorations of the last centuries' most talented illustrators are such a fantastic and inspiring read.

Stapleton Kearns, whom you can email with technical questions for his ongoing "Ask Stape" feature where he runs through technical questions, as well as theory and development of colour/light/paint/materials/setup etc, also runs a great blog, here. He recently started a feature called 100 paintings an artist should know, which starts with this link. As he discusses later, it's not totally subjective, but there is always a question mark over what paintings etc. to include in these "lists", but he's making a good case for the ones he's run so far.

Also, he included one of my favourite pictures of the English Rococo - George Romney's Lady Hamilton as Circe, with some background included. It only matches Paul Jamin's, Le Brenn et sa part de butin as pictures that came up during college, were critically panned, but I kind of liked them. :)

If you wander over to my sister's blog and comment in her most recent post, you can be in with a chance to win some crafty goodness!

And for your entertainment needs, try Battlepug! and Ratfist. Webcomic goodness.

Ciao!