Sort-of-art update: I’ll be raising prices on my prints within the next week. Truth be told I massively underpriced them when I first started selling them, just wanted enough to cover ink, but they’re selling well enough for printmaking time to be eating into my other art-making time. Which means they need to move on…
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Caricatures & Site Redesigns
I’ve been trying to teach myself how to draw caricatures, which for the most part means repeated pausing during various TV shows to try to draw out the characters. Currently at the clunky phase where the caricatures are not quite recognisable as who they’re supposed to be. (I guess Cragen might be recognisable? But his…
txtpile
This is what happens when i learn a new trick. (Two of these are just Lorem Ipsum gibberish. The top-left one is a bunch of various Star Trek quotes.) This is set up as a gig on Fiverr now as well. Cheers for cheap wordart.
2013 [Soft/Hard]Ware Calendar
![2013 [Soft/Hard]Ware Calendar](http://illo.keelanrosa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/softhardwarecalendar.jpg)
It’s a bit late for anyone who wants a calendar before 1 January, but a [Soft/Hard]Ware calendar now exists. (Meanwhile, those of us who are already practically linked to our computers use calendars more as frequently-changing decoration than as actual timekeepers, making the date completely irrelevant anyway.) [Soft/Hard]Ware: A Calendar of Cyborgs I may make…
Make Your Pencil Art Last Forever
Are you an artist who loves the fine grey art of pencil drawing? How about an art lover with a few pencil pieces in your collection? Either way, odds are good you want your pencil art to stay in good condition for a long time to come. Read on to learn how to keep your…
on nudity
Every now and then (okay, actually quite frequently) I come across a site which encourages sharing photos or art but completely prohibits nudes of any form, or only allows a very tiny (and often ambiguously-defined) type of nude. This is something I gripe about every time I see it, and I figure it’s about time…
Traditional half of mixed-media illustrations now available to art lovers
For over ten years, my preferred method for creating art has been to start off traditionally, then move to the computer for experiments not easily performed in traditional media. As such, my artworks have long been available only as online images or prints of the digital work. Until now. Starting with my current series, ‘[Soft/Hard]Ware’,…
Pre-filling the Pinterest Description
I am not the most avid pinner around, but I do use Pinterest, and more relevant to this post I’m one of the artists who doesn’t mind their work ending up on Pinterest – as long as it’s properly credited. Which I figure is a bit more likely if the Pinterest description field is pre-filled…
oops.
TLDR: my site is going to be a bit messy for a while. Details below, for those who want to mock my IT failure. So I used to keep my illo site over at torncanvas.net. I’ve been meaning to switch it over to my keelanrosa.com space for a while now, for a whole pile of…
Speaker Designs
Zazzle sells speakers now (has for a few days, but i’ve been lazy about cross-posting.) which means i have speakers now. Also, Zazzle is (until 30 May) running a deal for 10% off orders of $30 or more for anyone who uses the coupon code ZAZZLEMMSALE – so. have fun with that. My personal favourite…
Sales Gallery
To make it easier for me to put prints on sale (…and easier to actually remember to put prints on sale…), i started a 25% Off gallery in my Imagekind store. I’m planning on switching the images in the gallery every week or so. This week is just a semi-random selection of my more popular…
2010: Year of the Writer
Non-art-geeks may not already know about this, but every year around this time the major colour companies declare a ‘colour of the year’ (ie, Pantone has declared 2010 to be a Turquoise year.) Of course, experts can’t even discuss straight data without arguments cropping up over interpretation of said data. Experts announcing a colour naturally…
‘Connection’ and Artists for Charity
The print of ‘Connection’ has been donated to Artists for Charity, a deviantART group which… donates money from prints to charity. Pretty straightforward. They’ve plenty of other beautiful prints for sale, and all proceeds will go to a selected charity (currently the Autistic Self Advocacy Network), so go look around a bit. Good stuff.
Furoshiki!
The theme for Illustration Friday this week is ‘pattern’. And i recently found out about Spoonflower, one of about a billion print-on-demand companies – the unique thing about Spoonflower being, their product is fabric. I wonder if Spoonflower will be seeing a sudden increase in customers this week, or if i’m the only one to…
Product Pileup: Mecha, Elves, and Beta Testers
I’ve been putting about one new product a day in my Zazzle store for the last week or so (trying to take over the marketplace, MUAHAHAHAHA… erm… trying to give myself a right proper shop, i mean.) This includes two entirely new designs which haven’t been mentioned here at all yet, so i figured i’d…
New Shirts – “Inventor Of…”
I whipped up a customisable “inventor of…” t-shirt today. The default is “robots” but really, you can claim to be the inventor of whatever you like. The colours are customisable, too; they’re listed as “black” and “white” on Zazzle but again, that’s just the default. Even the style is customisable. I think that covers pretty…
Stupid artist statement.
I’ve been working on rewriting my artist statement lately, so i have something a little cleaner when i send it out to publishers. My feelings on this range from “ew” to “argh.”
Modified Fae Skateboard
Yep, there’s now a skateboard for the M is for Modify faerie. Available in eight different styles for all your skating needs.
New shirt, old shirt
I have a new mecha-inspired t-shirt design up, featuring an almost-anatomically correct mechanical heart (or, um, biofuel pump. Depending on how techie you want to be.) Somewhat unrelated, and much older, is the Emo Gardener shirt. I honestly cannot for the life of me remember if i ever actually mentioned it here or not, but…
Earth Day Sale
There’s nothing to say here i didn’t already post on Twitter – it might be brief, but sometimes that’s all you need. But for those not on Twitter: Imagekind (through which i sell my prints) is having an Earth Day sale. 25% off custom framing, today only, if you use the promo code EARTHDAY09. And,…
Reminder: Last day of print sale
Just a reminder my Imagekind prints are only on sale for one more day. That includes both the on-paper prints and the on-canvas prints, the little tiny eight-by-ten prints and the giant forty-eight-by-sixty-inch prints. It even includes the giant prints on paper types so fancy i can’t pronounce them, like “Hahnemuhle Torchon” – actually, this…
Reminder: Prints on sale for two more days…
Just a reminder my Imagekind prints are only on sale for two more days. That includes both the on-paper prints and the on-canvas prints, the little tiny eight-by-ten prints and the giant forty-eight-by-sixty-inch prints. It even includes the giant prints on paper types so fancy i can’t pronounce them, like “Hahnemuhle Torchon” – actually, this…
Reminder: Prints on sale for three more days…
Just a reminder my Imagekind prints are only on sale for three more days. That includes both the on-paper prints and the on-canvas prints, the little tiny eight-by-ten prints and the giant forty-eight-by-sixty-inch prints. It even includes the giant prints on paper types so fancy i can’t pronounce them, like “Hahnemuhle Torchon” – actually, this…
Price Juggling, Sales and Un-Sales
Here’s the deal: I want to raise my prices in my Imagekind print shop. Lots of little reasons, most of which i don’t think anyone really cares about, so i’ll spare the long-winded details. Especially since it’s not exactly a huge massive price increase. The cheap $9 prints are now $9.25. But before i do…
Fun with Google Custom Search
I spent an absurd amount of time today looking around for good blogs on book illustrations and the publishing industry and all the other pretty ideas related to my goal of becoming a book illustrator. I found about twelve worth subscribing to in my RSS reader, then tossed them all in an illustration-crazy Google custom…
My Big Huge 2009 Goal
Soar ©2009 Sharon Rosa When i was little, one of the things i wanted to do when i Grew Up was illustrate books. I liked reading and i liked drawing and what better career than one which combined both?
Blog Action Day: Poverty & Starving Artists
Today’s the second annual Blog Action Day, a day on which thousands of bloggers all bring up the same subject, in the hopes of actually making a difference somewhere. This is an idea which i think is pretty clever, though i don’t hold out much hope of it actually making said difference. (How long have…
New Freebie: “Chinagirl” Wallpaper
Free wallpaper based on Chinagirl – click image for full size.
New Wallpaper: The Emo Gardener
New wallpaper on the Freebies page, the Emo Gardener. Currently available only in 1024×768 ’cause i’m really… really tired and lazy right now 😛 Yes, too lazy to resize an image.
CIA Update
Yeah, i suck at updating the CIA. There’s finally a new one, though… yay! Originally i was planning on doing a new CIA every time i finished a new illustration. Obviously that didn’t work out. I tried it a few times and it shortened my light-bulb lifespan by 66%. So now i’m planning on doing…
New Blog: How to Draw People
I briefly mentioned my new blog, How to Draw People, when i posted “Detachment” yesterday, but HTDP hasn’t had a proper introduction yet. Come to think of it, though, i’m not sure it really needs one. It’s a blog. On How to Draw People. Ta-da! At any rate, HTDP has been recently updated with its…
Robot Slideroll
I made an attempt at a slideshow with Slideroll and some of my robot pictures: View Photo Slideshow Make a Free Flash Slideshow Overall? Not bad. It’s easy and free and looks pretty good. I think i prefer iMovie, though… it’s been a while since i used iMovie, so maybe i’m remembering it as better…
I am Cool. w00t.
I’m not so shallow as to still be holding a grudge against everyone who ever teased me in elementary school. (Which is just as well, as if i were, i’d go insane trying to hold grudges against 109 fifth-graders.) But i am shallow enough to be pumped when anything i do is considered even remotely…
Digital Art Squidoo Lens – Tutorials Wanted!
I’ve started a digital art lens on Squidoo, and added links to a few of my favourite tutorials. I’d like to get some more tutorials up there, though, so if anyone knows of any good ones (or even if you just want to promote your own), feel free to add it! The way Squidoo link…
First post of a (maybe) regular series.
As an experiment, i’m going to try blogging the work-in-progress of this week’s IF. This is a stupid decision on my part, because this week is crazy busy. However, i’ve noticed whenever i let crazy business push back an idea i have, it either never materialises… or something forces me to do it during an…
What is Art? – My art spectrum
Spend five minutes with the “search” function of any art forum, and i guarantee you will find a “What is Art?” debate. Odds are you won’t even need to search; there’ll be one right on the front page. It might be cleverly disguised as “Is anime Art?”, “Are comic books Art?”, “Are ‘arts and crafts’…
Drawing Day 2008
Just a heads-up: tomorrow, 07 June, is Drawing Day, a worldwide attempt to create one million drawings in a day. I honestly haven’t figured out exactly what i’ll be doing just yet – i already draw every day, so i want to do something bigger for the occasion, but tomorrow’s already shaping up to be…
Introducing… the CIA!
No, not that CIA. Comment Incentive Art. Either way, it’s still very secretive and hush-hush. Every week or so, new password-protected posts will appear in the Sketchblog. Behind the locked doors of these posts will lie hidden works of art, and it won’t just be eye candy – it’ll be some kind of freebie for…
New Print Account
I’ve set up a print account on a new site, Imagekind. I’m still testing it out a bit, but i think it may end up replacing deviantART as my main print account. There’s several reasons why i want an alternative to deviantART – the biggest one is gift certificates. I’d like to be able to…
RSS Awareness Day
Pencil, 8×11 in. Today, 01 May, has been dubbed RSS Awareness Day, so i’m going to go off on a bit of a tangent from art and ramble about just how awesome RSS is. But first, a bit of an RSS-centric announcement: you can now subscribe to only the completed artworks posted on Torn Canvas….
Art and Earth Day
Just a quick post to say deviantART is donating 10% of today’s print sales to the Nature Conservatory in celebration of Earth Day 2008. I’m going to be using this as an excuse to get a piece or two from my wish-list… In sticking with an Earth Day theme, i’d like to recommend two of…
IF update and nonsensicalness.
No IF this week (um… last week. No “Fail” IF. I should have a “Primitive” IF). And thus no drawing this week (Radha won last week’s, for the curious). ‘Twas a crazy week, and today promises to be a crazy day, and this weekend… oohh. Let’s not think about this weekend just yet. Anyway. Now…
Eep, T*C kinda died, sorry :(
For a “daily” site, i haven’t updated in over a week. Which would be okay if i had so much stuff to do i had no time to draw or paint… and, well, i have been pretty busy, but i’ve got a Special Backlog of pictures for occasions like this. I really have no excuse,…
Missing a few days. But! Shopping. Sort of. Soon.
No Daily Drawing today. First off, my scanner’s being mentally unstable at the moment; sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. New one’s supposed to be coming in tomorrow… when i’m not going to be home at all. Rar. Plus, it might very well come in late. If it does i’m switching back to Oekaki…
Sketch: Collectible + News: Twitter
Collectible Item. Do Not Remove Original Packaging. This is a pretty shoddy-looking collectible, though, and even with the original packaging i don’t think it’ll fetch much on eBay. Just when i think i’m getting the hang of oekaki… i put out something like this. *shudder* [Oekaki Animation] In unrelated news, i have a Twitter account…
February Art-A-Day Challenge
Starting tomorrow i’m going to be participating in an Art-A-Day challenge, kind of like Get the Lead Out but for only a month, and with daily themes. To add a little extra challenge for myself, i was planning on switching to digital sketches for the month and using something like Sketchcast to show my drawings….
New tutorial
I wrote up a tutorial (well, more of a “making of”/process documentary type of thing) on my last IF illustration, “Stitches.” The tutorial is here and can be accessed from the Illustration page. Any comments/questions/critiques are more than welcome.
Review: MOO MiniCards
I’ve been meaning to order business cards for ages, and didn’t get around to it for the longest time, and frequently ended up kicking myself for not ordering them whenever someone expressed interest in my art and i had nothing to show them. Right before New Year’s i decided to just get down to it,…
Big Print Sale! Except not really.
I just made up a new price list for my deviantArt prints – up until now, every time i submitted a print, i left the prices as dA sets them by default. Mainly because i didn’t have a proper price list and i knew if i tried to set the prices any different without a…
About to do something drastic.
Well, i wasn’t going to finish the switch from Blogger to WordPress today but… why not. Let’s get it over with, shall we? Actually switching the blog should be easy. Getting the RSS feed right should also be easy. I’m not entirely sure, though, that Feedburner will fully realise what’s happened. So there may be…
Aaaah…
Nothing quite like the endorphin rush of finishing a tricky picture. Even if “finishingâ€? actually means “finally finishing the #!&# line-art and i’ve still got a few days, if not weeks, of colouring to do before it’s really finished-finished.â€? I’d post the line-art, just because i’m so bloody proud of myself for finally getting that……
Sketch: Медведь + Bloggerificness
I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog. It covers: The best blogging techniques. How to get traffic to your blog. How to turn your blog into money. I’ll let you know what…
Sketch + News: Still alive
Oi, haven’t posted in a while. Haven’t done Illustration Friday for a while, either – but i’ve got a new screen-capture programme, and i think i might make a video of the next digital picture i do (which will likely be next week’s Illustration Friday). Of course it depends at least partly on how much…
Sketch + Not-Quite-News
Man i haven’t updated a sketch in forever um, several days. I bought a new Wacom Intuos3… i’m planning on getting an airbrush accessory for it at some point in the near future but i want to wait until my upcoming money issues (moving, returning to college, switching jobs, и Ñ‚.д.) are sorted out. I…
On the sudden lack of updates
Friday, when i said i was “caught up” on my back sketches, what i really meant was, “I’m caught up now, and i’m going away on a long trip tomorrow, but i’m bringing my scanner with me so it’s all cool, right? Right?”Well, yesterday my scanner was taking the day off (hiding deep in the…
News: Mm, widgetness.
Today i added a LibraryThing widget to the front page that shows whatever artsy book i’m currently reading. Clicking the cover goes to Amazon to buy the book and clicking the title goes to LibraryThing to look at LT goodness. Also i have an account as an Amazon associate so i get money if you…
meh.
Yeah, i haven’t scanned anything in for a few days.I have drawings, really. I’m just too sleepy/lazy to actually scan them in. It’s been a tiring couple of days and i’d rather sleep than do… um… anything else. Also it’s highly unlikely i’ll get this week’s illo friday pic done. I haven’t even started it…
IF: Total + Random news
Total freedom?Yeah, it’s a bit of a stretch on the definition… oh well.My alternative was a computer geek totally immersed in WoW. This is based on an old sketch of mine, one of about a billion tattoo designs from back in the days when i was planning on getting a tattoo. Never did come up…
Sketch + Random news
I’m leaving for PA tomorrow morning. I’m not entirely sure yet if this will be updated at all while i’m gone… this computer isn’t set up to work with the internet where i’ll be staying (yet), and i’m not bringing my scanner with me. If i can get the internet connection working, i’ll update with…
News: E-mail subscriptions! And a lesson on RSS.
I just want to say that i hate e-mail newsletters. I despise them. In my mind, RSS is much cooler. It’s easier to get an RSS feed than to sign up for an e-mail, and RSS doesn’t clutter up my inbox. I’m subscribed to maybe two e-mail newsletters and about a hundred RSS feeds. Of…
No pic today.
No picture today; my scanner’s… um… i think it’s in a closet, actually. It’s certainly not anywhere near my computer.I moved today. Just down the hall, nothing big… but i didn’t know i was moving until a few hours before the fact o_0 So my stuff is piled all over the place in a mass heap of…
News: New layout!
The new web-site layout is up, and snazzier than last year’s! PLUS: New writing section added! A side-note, for anyone who happened to bookmark any of the pages: i switched the site to use SSI, so all the page extensions got switched from .html to .shtml. I left all the .html pages up, but they’re…
Oops…
So, somehow i broke the PHP version of the sketchblog. I’m not sure how this happened, or even when it happened (though i know it was fairly recently), and on top of that, i can’t seem to get it working again. I’m therefore switching to Blogger. The RSS feed will be nicer that way, anyway…