Slight Funny

A few days ago, when random_redshirt, Mr. Kitty, and I were all downtown together, I stepped into Turn to Nature, a gift shop that sells nature-themed toys, oddities, and tourist crap. By that point, random and Mr. Kitty had wandered off elsewhere, so I figured I'd look around and keep myself busy until they came back.

After browsing for a time, I found the store's collection of puppets. I picked up a goat, cuddled it, and then made it talk to me. After a minute or so, I lost interest in talking to a puppet. I hitched it up over my arm and let it watch the other customers, while I bent down to look through the rest of the puppets.

It wasn't long before I got the familiar "you're being watched" feeling. I turned around. A woman was standing behind me. She was staring at the goat. The goat was staring at her. I'd completely forgotten that the goat was people-watching. I'd just been letting it follow the sounds of people's footsteps. I think it took her a moment to register that I was the one holding, and thus controlling, the goat, because she laughed nervously, "I love puppets."

I nodded, "So do I."

"Baaaa," said the goat.

The lady left, and I placed the goat back on his stand.

I hope he's still there when I get back downtown. I kinda like the little guy.

Pretty!

Art: Progress

Sketch and in-progress pencils.



ETA maybe a week?

Art: It's Like Liveblogging!

Except I'll stop now, because everyone would defriend me after a day or so.

Art Recs for ja_bucc

A little while ago, we talked about me reccing some art books for the kidling, so--

Individual Artist Collections:
The Magic Pen of Joseph Clement Coll
  A turn-of-the-century newspaper and book illustrator with a keen eye for capturing emotion and facial detail.
Alex Toth: Black and White
  A collection of Alex Toth's inks, ranging from his work on Zorro and Terry and the Pirates to commissions and TV design sketches. Better for the cartooning end of things. Some raunchy material, but no outright sexual content that I recall.
Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein
  Shelley's novel accompanied by Wrightson's fantastic inks. Like Clement Coll, a much stronger leaning towards hyper-realism.

Anatomy:
Anatomy: A Complete Guide for Artists, by Joseph Sheppard
  Very thorough, including how muscles and ligaments attach and move underneath the skin.
Dynamic Anatomy, by Burne Hogarth
  More exploration of skin as planes and spheres reacting to the environment, rather than as having underlying machanics. Very good for people who like to build their drawings up from base shapes. Features lots of facial portrait studies.
How to Draw the Human Figure: An Anatomical Approach, by Louise Gordon
  A good beginner's book, and a good intermediary between hard medical anatomy and surface-only books. Has some nice focus on hands and feet, and has a nice look at turn-arounds.

I'll probably make another post with more, when I can think of what else to add.