More Drawrings for the Corrigendopedia

Ah, my Corrigendopedia project! 'Correct yourself' is the idea behind this website of mine. It is supposed to encourage people to think for themselves, so they shouldn't take my word for it!

One article, which has been partially deleted, is about the UFO hoax pulled off by Chris Russo and Joe Rudy. They liked the article so much that they actually emailed me!

To see how these pictures and more, and how this web project of mine is going, a good page to stop by is How To Figure Stuff Out, And How Not To! I don't have much there, but I'm hoping to delve into the meat of it within a month.

Tons of new old artwork up on Flickr!

Life's been crazy as usual, but I somehow managed to get some old, old artwork up. And I mean old, starting with my earliest education, which ended here at first grade!
` As you can see, this was a class assignment of my imaginary encounter with the Easter Bunny! Hells yeah!

Not to mention, photos of what's been going on in my life, including my fiance Lucas' concerts (that's him on guitar)... that concert was with Johnny the Freeloader, now another X-roommate, who got up from his drums twice, in the middle of a set, to go get intoxicated!

That's all I have here for now, as I really have to go do more important stuff than blog. But rest assured, I'll be back here because part of the reason I've been not around much has been all the crazy crap going on, which is over with! Thank deity!
` Go here for links to Flickr, that stuff, including blog posts about what's been happening!

Illustrations for The Corrigendopedia!

For months, I've been making illustrations for The Corrigendopedia website, and... how could I not display them here? Lookit -- here's the title page heading!

Another illustration, which was going to be like a banner at the top of each page (because there's a section for that on the new layout), I finally decided to put in the Corrigending the Corrigendopedia, which is a record of all my updates for the site.

Also, don't forget the 'drawring' I made for the Preface back in August of my 'dedicated' face.' Cause I'm so dedicated.

There are more illustrations already on the site, which I will display in future posts. For now, I ought to fill you in on what's been going on since my last troubling update:
` We got the 'circus' to run away from us -- and you'd know that if you'd been keeping up with my other blogs.
` Basically, we pretended to get ourselves evicted so that the crazy roommates would stop trying to retaliate against our efforts, perhaps even after they had left, and finally the Crazy Couple and Drunk-O have left, once and for all!

Which reminds me; I'm due for another journal update on Science, Wackmobiles and Spurious Brainchildren, as well as Introspection of a Struggling Mad Scientist, but since I haven't made any 2010 updates here at all yet, I figured that updating this one first was more important!

Hope you enjoyed, and there's more where this came from (like The Corrigendopedia? Duh!). Also, there is a lot more of my artwork and thousands of fun photos you can get lost in on my Flickr site -- here are all my sets!

I'll be back soon!

Can you believe this circus?

Just when I thought it was safe to relax, disaster has struck me once again! Our psycho roommates are really making no sense and are terrorizing me and my fiance Lucas! No, really! And one called the police on Lucas for hiding from him! I wrote about it on another of my blogs!

Whooo hooo! Now I can blog again!

That's right - I've been offline for a while because I haven't had any personal internet access AT ALL - the best I've been able to do is write stuff on paper, then find a computer to use and type the stuff I wrote into it. It REALLY SUCKED. But now, with my new laptop, I'll be able to upload photos so easily and I'll have tons more new posts on all my blogs!

Be back soon!

How many rabbits do YOU see?

Over a month ago, I uploaded this picture to my Flickr account, then promptly forgot about making a blog post with it, for which I profusely apologize. I originally drew this for Thom Lee's art class back when I lived in the ghetto.

The object was to draw a rabbit and make it look like it was going fast. I drew my rabbit in the act of catching a bullet while at the same time running faster than two other abnormally-fast rabbits. I also used certain design techniques which add to the illusion of motion. I hope that much is clear.

I was also careful not to put the three rabbits going in a straight line, because one technique of creating the illusion of motion is to do just that. To make sure the rabbits looked distinct from one another, I made the one catching the bullet lightest in color, the rabbit on the right looking more like a hare with black-tipped ears, and the rabbit at the top is supposed to be a mini-lop.

So, imagine my surprise when Thom Lee put it up on the wall and asked the students how many rabbits were supposed to be in the drawing.

Most of them saw three, but some of them only saw one rabbit drawn three times! I failed to do what I set out to do, and thus got this comment:

That's right. I got a 3 on this project because I was unsuccessful at making my three rabbits look distinct-enough. That one I did not expect!

Night of the Living Dodo!

Sometime in 2007 I was reading a book all about... Dodos! And it had lotsa pictures. Dodos went extinct in the 1500s, so there's no photos of them, but people did think to draw a few pictures.

And then you know what I did? I drew pictures of the pictures they drew. Brilliant, huh? Many of them aren't that great, however, the head in the upper right was drawn by a naturalist or some such who had a dead bird in his lap before it was butchered and eaten, so he had a very good model (as opposed to after being butchered and eaten).

secondhand dodo sketches

Also, the lower right hand one is copied off of this painting by Cornelius Saftleven, which you can compare with here:

I call that dodo 'Flaky'!

Of course, bones have also been found, so I lightly sketched the articulated skeleton of a dodo, then drew some flesh on it.

dodo reconstruction

Many years ago, I used to read all about dodos (Raphus cucullatus) which were large, flightless and supposedly fat (at least part of the year). Dull in color, they had greenish bill sheaths which were apparently shed each year (like 'Flaky', above).
` People who messed around on Mauritius didn't like to eat them, which must have been why they kept pigs, who did. Supposedly, pigs eating the dodo's eggs was what really finished them off.
` Dodos were also of the same family (Raphidae) as similar birds that were boring brown instead of boring gray, called solitaires (unsurprisingly also extinct) who lived on the nearby islands of Rodrigues and Reunion.
` The males had large clubs on the ends of their wings, for fighting and for rattling against their sides as a display. They also had petite-looking bills, looking more like the smaller relatives of dodos and solitaires; pigeons (which are the same kind of bird as doves).
` To be precise, dodos and solitaires are of the same order of birds as pigeons (Columbiformes), though pigeons are a different family (Columbidae). That's about all I remember at this point.

Anyway, I highly suggest that you see what's going on in my other blogs - Lucas has his own TV show, plus I have a year's worth of photos up on Flickr, and I'm organizing my Corrigendopedia website. There is something wrong with you if you don't.