Ursa Major constellation from Uranographia by Johannes Hevelius
The night sky in southern California has been clear the last couple of nights. When I look up at the sky I see Orion the Hunter and the clear dots that make up the Big Dipper. The night sky shows different constellations ...
The Art of Constellations
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 17, 2017Traveling Back to the Beginning
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 10, 2017
Paris Street; Rainy Day, Gustave Caillebotte, The Art Institute of Chicago
In less than twenty-four hours I am going to board a plane and end up in the city of my childhood. I am returning to the Windy City because it is Spring Break and because I yearn to have ...
World Building Is Ubiquitous
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 8, 2017
image from The Art of Veiling, by yours truly
There have been posts before (I think) about how to go about creating a world, especially when it comes to fantasy settings. You’re supposed, if you want to do it right, to build everything that makes up the world in ...
UHG I CAN'T EVEN
HyenaHell at 12:00AM, April 7, 2017
We've all been there: all of the sudden, the trajectory of your own life seems to thwart you from your ambitions! Maybe it's obligations to schoolwork or your day job; maybe your partner or family; maybe you wind up homeless or awkwardly crashing on a series of couches ...
Basic Shapes in Character Design
Banes at 12:00AM, April 6, 2017
From the Best of Banes Collection…
CHARACTER SHAPES
I've never consciously designed characters this way, but I recently remembered hearing about this notion some time ago, on the dvd special features for an animated movie or show. I don't remember which one.
Characters derived from basic shapes can ...
Quackcast 316 - The Quirkcast!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 28, 2017 LISTEN!
For this Quackcast we decided to chat about quirks- the things that stand out about a character, help you remember them, get interested in them, traits that pick them out as individuals and can ALSO be used to point at deeper character traits! These are so useful in so ...
The Differences Between a Formal, Social, and Psychoanalytic Reading of Art
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 27, 2017
Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith beheading Holofernes, 1611-12, oil on canvas, (Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples)
There are several different ways to read a painting. The perspective of the reader adds a new insight to the history behind the art. For the purpose of this article, I have selected Judith beheading Holofernes ...