So I suppose it is no secret I like activism, standing up for a cause and giving it your all no matter what. From my comics to my actual life I have been doing so.
But what about the imagery that gets such a thing across to an audience in ...
Buck the System Imagery
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 4, 2017Bill Paxton
Banes at 12:00AM, March 2, 2017
Bill Paxton, 1955-2017
Bill Paxton was a regular presence in my prime movie-loving years. As the punk in The Terminator, the Marine having a meltdown in Aliens (“no way, mian!”), and the nasty older brother in Weird Science, he could be tough, scary, AND funny. He was always memorable, even ...
Quackcast 312 - happy little trees
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 28, 2017 LISTEN!
In THIS particular Quackcast it's just Banes and I chatting about tips and tricks for artwork. Hopefully some of the stuff we mention is helpful to someone, I tried to illustrate some of that in the cover pic. Banes drew the image of Penny crashing through a scene ...
When the Hero Fails
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 25, 2017
Failure is the stepping stone to success. That’s what I teach my students and my clients, and it is true, right up there with “whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”: If you learn why you failed, you won’t fail again the same way- and that brings ...
MARDI GRAS ATE MY HOMEWORK
HyenaHell at 12:00AM, Feb. 23, 2017
Unless you live in one of a handful of places scattered across the globe, either still sucking on the dregs of medieval Catholicism or entrenched in the aftermath of colonialism, Carnival probably means jack shit to you. Or maybe it does, but it's likely not an entity in and ...
Quackcast 311 - Myth and modernity
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 21, 2017 LISTEN!
Myths and legends are often recycled and reused, but why would you adapt them to the modern day? This idea came to us from Tantz Aerine and her great news posts on the last two Saturdays. Read those if you want a good perspective on the idea! Ptface, Tantz ...
Used Books Celebrates Ten Years with an Anniversary Special!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 20, 2017
Used Books is celebrating its tenth anniversary on Feb. 23 (Thursday), so we are interrupting the story for a couple special extras this week. The first is posted Monday.
usedbooks writes:
The Beginning
Thursday, February 23rd marks the 10th anniversary of Used Books online. I started drawing UB shortly after ...
Adapting Myth to Modernity (part 2)
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 18, 2017
So last week I’d started talking about the reincarnation upon reincarnation of myth and legend into modern sequential and narrative art- and got some pretty insightful comments on why it persists for millennia (it is said that Euripides adapted the legend of Medea himself in order to make it ...