Whether your medium is traditional, digital, or in a realm of its own, if it’s visual (or you hope it will be one of these days), here’s a place to talk about it, dream about it, or share ideas, no matter if you’re an artist or not.
Patience, Please
This site is under reconstruction and will look strange for a while. We regret the inconvenience.
We have some artwork to kick off the new thread in style.
Bunny art by Kagcomix:
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Works by Nthanda the Laugher:
Oil Pastel
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Pencil Drawing of Trystan Evander and Kyrra Nyx*
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*two characters from a novel Nthanda is writing (see Books in Progress)
aw, the bunnies are adorable, Kagy! Super awesome drawings!
Whoa. I love the cornucopia, Nthanda, it looks so real. *wishes i could draw*
And I really like the sketch of the two people as well. *note to self, check out Nthanda’s book in progress*
Seriously, you guys both have wonderful talent!
first post?
SFTDP……I especially like the drawing with the multiple bunnies attacking the girl in the green shirt. The bunny on her head is so adorable, as is the one spring at her. (yes, I’m crazy)
oh, and i’m an idiot…..how could it be first post when i’m replying to the first post? *whacks self upside the head*
Ag! *is nervous* My audition is this morning and I’m not sure how I’ll do—my portfolio is pretty good, I have a few good pieces in there, but I don’t know if I’ll be good enough on the on-site audition. We have to draw a pile of tools, and I’m not too good at that sort of style.
Wow, Kagy and Nthanda have super different styles. I love your stuff Nthanda, and Kagy, the bunnies are the best. Especially the bunny hat.
Good luck, THF! A little bit of nervousness isn’t bad — it keeps you alert. I’m sure you’ll do fine. Tell us all about it later.
5: Ha, I have bad luck. I have to wish for something bad to happen for something good to happen. One day in PE, Alfalfa, Frosting, and I ended up together for basketball, and I noted my bad luck. She said she had good luck, so we touched the edge of our fingers together. Right when we made contact, and did an explosion sound. Scared the wits outta her.
My piece of artsy stuff has been colored and will be sent in now!
1-I love the pictures/drawings/sketches/ummmmmmmmmmm…….. Anyway, I love it!
Hey, Kags, can I get a pair of those jeans?
I’ll send in some art soon. I just have to work on it. I’m writing a new novel, and haven’t had much time lately.
Thanks guys. Thank you GAPAs. I was wondering when they’d be up.
Notes: The skin is patchy (and on the purple shirted one, white) because my scanner destroys colour. Seriously. They are much less patchy in my sketch book. The one in the purple shirt is simply a lighter skin colour than the other two. In the first on there were light blue shadows but like I said, my scanner destroys light colour. And the last picture with “Kagcomix 2008” was my original MB signature. But my scanner didn’t decide to work until after the deadline.
8- Sure! *sends imaginary jeans* In real life the HPB pattern would probably be beading or sequins.
Thanks all! And thank you so so so so much for linking the BiP thread, that’ cool.
they’re great.
Kagcomix, I like your drawings, especially the one of the bunny leaping out of the air
5 – Fangs! The audition went quite well, I think. I drew a nice drawing of a pile of tools (very difficult, but I’m thinking it was actually a pretty good drawing), I had a nice and diverse-ish portfolio, and my essay… wasn’t horrible. The interview went pretty well, I showed them that I was a nice person, and got the chance to talk to them about the pieces in my portfolio—I didn’t have any 3-D stuff, which may have brought me down, but that’s all right.
Oh and if anyone cares, the on-site essay was comparing “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space” by Umberto Boccioni to “Study for the Libyan Sibyl” by Michelangelo. I accidentally interpreted the movement in that drawing as the opposite kind that it actually was, but that’s okay. Oh well, you know—I’ll just hope that the other things brought me through. Yeah, now that I think about it that essay was actually pretty darn crappy. Whatever.
Oh and I forgot to say—Nthanda, I love the cornucopia, it does look very real.
I should probably scan some of my portfolio in, shouldn’t I? Hm… maybe I’ll get around to that someday.
I feel sorry for the girl in the second and third pictures. Attacked by faceless HPBs.
Kai, send your robot girl pictures in!!!!!!!!
12- I would, if the scanner at my house didn’t stink. I’ve tried scanning artwork before and it always comes out too light.
13- Yes!! She so has to. I’ve been dieing to see them.
All of my water colors are really weird, I guess I could send them in but their not really of anything, their rather, uh abstract.
I love the pencil drawing. I’m not at all good with profiles but I love the look of them. *sulks* I’m not a crazy artist because everything I do is so abstract and comes to me in uh randome spurts.
14-Oh. Can you use a scanner at school, or something?
(14) Why not try sending one anyway, as an experiment? Photoshop can do some remarkable rescues, sometimes. It’s worth a shot.
17- I’ll attempt it when my mom gets home, as she knows more about sending E-mails than I do.
18-Yay!
Ooh, I feel ashamed of my cartoon-thing. It looks weird. Sent through my mom’s email.
(20) Aww, your “cartoon-thing” is fine, Zinc.
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I haven’t been here in ages…
Zinc – I like your picture! It’s a very good cartoon.
I think I’m going to send in a picture that I made in Photoshop.
Ooh, Kagy, I really like the girl+clothes in the first one, and the jumping bunny in the second… it looks so squishable! ^^
But lo! Is that an uncolored shoe I spot?
Nthanda- Wow.
Zinc- Ooh! What is she holding? A mystical portal or mirror of some sort?
23- it was really light blue (my scanner destreoys light colours). and it’s a sock.
This was created in Photoshop by groundhog22:
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Sweet! I like it, groundhog. It’s very cool.
Ahaha, oh yes, I was going to send in some photography a long time ago. Oops.
These look great, everyone.
I haven’t drawn in forever. It makes me kind of sad. I used to really like drawing actual things (I occasionally still do abstract stuff in school notebooks, but even that not so much anymore : / ), but I haven’t done so in… I don’t even know how long. I was thinking abut painting one of the abstract things I did (we have some old small canvases/paints in the basement from Grandma’s) but then I realizrd I have nowhere near the time.
BUT I am going to be getting a nice camera for Christmas!! A DSLR if all goes well, which I am hoping… I like the Canon Rebel Xti (something like that) from what I’ve read online, but I haven’t had a chance to just handle one at a store or anything… I need to do that soon. Anyone have any input?
I like your “cartoon thing” zinc. Is she a character? 90% of my “cartoon things” are characters. I have about a million stories in my head that I will never get around to making into comics.
26 – Thanks.
27 – A DSLR? That’s awesome!! I don’t know much about them, but I do know that Canon makes very good non-SLR digital cameras, so I don’t see why a Canon DSLR wouldn’t be the same or better in terms of quality.
25- Wonderful!
30 – Thank you!!
Totally splendiforous, Groundhog!
23: Um, it might, but the sparkles are from the pouch around her waist, FYI.
28: Not that I know of…. maybe…?
I’ll be drawing another one sooner or later. When I get time. And a decent sheet of paper.
25-OMG! PWNAGE!
Sorry for the short girlish word.
32 – You can get a pretty good sketchbook from the drugstore, unless I’m very much mistaken. *hasn’t been in a drugstore in years*
By the way……….how many people here have a DeviantArt account? [Snip! Sorry, MBers — we discourage discussion of personal accounts on other websites. –Robert]
34: *blink* Good idea. Beginner’s luck… (just kidding!)
35 – I do, but that’s probably all I’m allowed to say on the subject.
35-You didn’t with NationStates…
A bit more on my thing…
The hair was originally just pencil, but I just used the impressionist tool and left it at that.
The wand wasn’t in the original drawing.
I left the rune untouched.
I entitled the image, “Sorceress.” I got the basic idea from what you guys guessed on the “Let’s Get Physiognomical” thread.
How do you get your art posted here ? Do you e-mail it ? To what adresse ?
39) Zinc, “Let’s go Physiognomical” wants you !!! (Lack of people)
40–To gapa@musefanpage.com I would suggest attaching your picture (instead of just copying it into the email).
I have a couple little silly comics I’d like to send in. But only a couple are muse related and one is art history related….
I’d send my stuff in if I knew how to get it onto the computer. How do you get the stuff on a computer?
42- We’d like to see them. (Or atleast I would!)
43- Mostly by scanning, but if you don’t have a scanner, a digital camera works too.
I love the bunny pictures, Kagy. The faceless hpbs are so so so so adorable. ^^
I’m sending in some stuff… be there in a sec.
To Kagcomix: I love your signature!
44- I’ll send them sometimes over the weekend.
45/7- Thank- you guys.
I will probably scan them tomorrow.
Gwyn, by my request, is drawing a “Museblog photo,” where all of us where called from various threads to have a picture taken. It’s getting quite long, and I think Lady B. will have to post a link instead. I think you can guess who ZVX, Beavo, Meow, RtH, and Aggie are, but she’s going to make you guys guess the rest. Some of you guys are quite hard, and I need to make her draw Beat, POSOC, and Alice next. Leafy used to be in there, but now I had her erase the emblem on her shirt to make her someone else (I’m not saying who!). But it looks rather strange to have someone other than Leafy be leaning up against me. And now things are healing a little with us, so I don’t know whether to let her come back or not. Maybe I’ll just have her erase that person and make someone else.
I really shouldn’t be discussing this sort of stuff on this thread, huh?
50- Oh, that’s so cool! I can’t wait to see what everyone looks like, and I’m sure it’ll be fun to find me! Where do you think it will be posted?
P.S. GAPAS, I sent you guys about four or five pictures, I think. Should be in the mail.
Thanks!
(52) Yes, we got them, Agrrrfishi. I have to convert them to a postable format, something I simply haven’t had time to do, with all the holiday craziness.
50–That’s awesome! Hey, if I’ve never sent in a picture of myself to Museblog, can I send one and get in the pic? No problem if you think it’ll be too much work.
51: I don’t know. It’s like a combination of Let’s Get Physiognomical and Visual Arts. Maybe it deserves its own thread.
54: No, this is all specualation. I think I know waht Kagy will be doing, but you, hmm… aha! I’ve got it now. But alas, my sister’s still asleep.
That’s pretty sweet. I’m going to just send in some Photoshop doodles. That’s okay, right?? I like this thread! I mean, where else do you get to post art and people will be so nice about them?
By the way- Absolutely AH-MAZING drawings, all of you!!!
So perhaps I’ll send them tonight or tomorrow. It really depends when the downstairs computer is free.
I’m going to attempt to send in one of my paintings, not sure which and not sure when, but… It will be here someday.
50-That sounds really cool, Zinc. Really cool. Send them in soon!
And just one thing I’d like to add- it was all her I idea, POSOC! Not mine! Blame Gwyn! I tried to stop her!
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I drew something from the play my homeschool group performed today (that is, I drew it today, not we performed it today), and I kinda wanted to send it in, but our scanner is horrible and destroys pencil color, and I don’t think anyone other than electros would really get it…. I have to start drawing people from BA:TNG. I’v done sketches, but…..
I have no idea where I’m going with this. I think I’ll post before I get too off topic.
Kagcomix’s Cliff Eagle comic:
[Note to Kagy — the email contained only one part. Also, the other graphics you sent were too small to post. I’m not sure what happened.]
From Nthanda the Laugher, another character (Serkan) from one of her stories:
62-Awesome! I like your drawing of Cliff Eagle, Kagy. The penguin’s pretty awesome/cute, too.
I don’t know who “Serkan” is, though, Nthanda!
62: That is marvously stupid, but hysterically funny!
62- I am honored to finally be a part of a Kagcomix official strip. Wow.
62- I am also unsure of what happened. Should I try enlarging them and sending them again? I sent some bunny comics earlier, did you get them?
65- that’s only the tail end of the comic. The first part is basically you being awoken in the night by a ninja from the south pole, what you see is you’re introductory penguin. That is why the comic makes little to no sense. *is off to try to fix the first part*
Okay. I doubled the size and sent it. That will hopefully work. *crosses fingers*
(67) The attachment was missing. The bunny comics were the ones that were too small.
Yay! I just sold one of paintings!
68- okay. Let me try again. (what is wrong with me????)
WOOO CANON EOS REBEL XS YUSSSSSS!!!
*dances*
I got a DSLR!!! And a 75-300mm lens along with the kit lens!!!
We’re going to visit my out of town relatives though, and then straight to Connecticut for a hockey tournement (not sure I’m going to bring it there…), so I won’t get to upload any to a comp for a while yet.
picturespicturespicturespicturespictures
Rebecca- I am so sorry to waste all of this time trying to send you the right thing. I made sure they were all big and attached this time.
71- YAY! I don’t know anyhitng about cameras. So I will assume what you got is good.
62) I don’t get it.
That’s a nice pic Nthanda!
Wowsers! I can’t believe I’ve never been to this thread before!
I love art!
50) oooooooo! I wanna see it!
Maybe I could send in a sketch or two of mine……. Maybe……
Gurgle.
I have been declined permission to use our scanner. I’ll try using my photobooth, but then my pic will turn out slightly blurry. 
63–he was just introduced on the Books in Progress thread
69–Wow! That’s so cool!
71–You. are. so. LUCKY!!!!! *turns green with envy*
I sent a watercolor of a tree. I think its moving through cybespace but… I’m not at all a computer genious.
Nathanda- I wish I could draw people like you, mine turn out like alians, Serkan looks really cool.
Kagcomix- Cool comic, I didn’t get it but…. since when do I get things?
Re- I don’t get Kagy’s comic
Go to the Romance and relationships thread and find the story about the stalker girl.
RE: Not getting my comic. Like Cliff Eagle said: check out the R&R thread. that is also the tail end of the comic. The first part will be posted when ever the GAPAs have time (they are pretty buisy right now). I think I managed to send it properly this time.
ha! kagy that’s hilarious. i love that he’s an actual eagle lol
i love everyone’s art! i should send something in..hmmm
We now have both parts of Kagcomix’s Cliff Eagle comic. I’ll post other stuff when I get the chance.
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Oh my gods, that is so funny, especially after the R&R thread…. But does CE have a nightcap or something? He looks a bit more like a chicken….
81 – It does look like a nightcap…
81- It’s a nightcap. Personally I think he looks more like a pigeon. I’m sorry about that, I don’t really have any practice drawing the eagle. My country’s animal is the beaver.
I sincerely appolagize to the GAPAs, who had to have their inbox littered with emails from me. Thanks so much for posting the comic Rebecca.
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Hilarious! 
More artwork from MuseBloggers:
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From YodaShmoda
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From kiwimuncher
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From Tessera Rose, who says:
“It’s a dream image, which for me are often full of cool colors. I’m pretty sure the drawings on the pillars were inspired by a recent vandalism.”
A set of drawings from Agrrrfishi:
1. painting of a panda.
2. A sketch of a chipmunk, drawn in the early fall.
3. My character, Jean, from the Steampunk Jungle RPG
4. The blue sky over a hill.
5. A caricature of Superman for one of the Muse Magazine contests
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More comics from Kagcomix:
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Lawnbunny
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Top 10 Side Effects of Being a Muser: Number One
I absolutely love everything!. Just for the record.
I have suggestion to anybody experimenting with drawing. That suggestion is…
Now I was actually going to reveal my suggestion now, but I have just been told to go to bed. Darn. I guess I’ll reveal it later.
Awesome art, everyone!
The tree is nice. I like Kiwimuncher’s bird. And Agrrrfishi’s Panda and Chipmunk are both so cute!!!
And, of course, Kagy’s comics and art are great as usual! The “Their loss” line is fantastic.
Lady B. is doing a lot of work on Christmas! *Sends Christmas pies*
Red-tailed HAWK
All the drawins/comics/paintings are awsome! Thank you for putting my tree up.
Wahh ! My desk ate my artwork (and my history homework,chess books,chocolate,calculator- maybe I should make a list of what my desk didn’t eat) !!!
(=desk): *ignores*
: *ignores*
Unfair !
*headdesk,headdesk,headdesk*
*commands desk:” Surrender my art (and my history homework, chess books…e.t.c.) or I’ll keep bashing my head against you !*
*bashes*
*ouch !*
*thinks* I could draw a painting called “The conqueror desk” !
Then I’ll have artwork anyway ! I WIN !!!
*goes on epic quest for a scanner or a digital camera*
Wow! These are so good!
Your bunny drawings pwn the rest. Yoda, nice tree, I love the attention to detail. Kiwi, what a flamablamablous bird! It looks so real! Cool drawing, Nthanda, I really need to read your story! And tessera Rose, tat dream place looks cool. I’d love to go there someday.
Kags, awesome work as usual.
Thanks for ze compliments, all!
I have been meaning to send in the “side affects” one for almost 4 months. I drew it at the beginning of september.
Oh my gosh, I love the panda! -squees-
And all of the others too! Kagy, I love your bunnies. They’re so adorable!
8. Wow all of this is so good!
Yoda, I love your tree, it looks like some of the Tolkien illustrations–simple and elegant.
Kiwi, that bird is incredible! It must have taken you forever to do the fuzz on the head. I love its expression.
Tessera, the “dreamscape” picture is really cool–very surreal. I like how it’s all pretty concrete, except for the abstract-ish splotch on the side (which, by the way, looks exactly like a leafy sea dragon).
Agrrrfishi, the panda is sooo cute! I want to pick it up and give it a hug. And the chipmunk is awesome–really lifelike. I like the blue sky one too, it’s so neatly blended that it looks like it was airbrushed or something. Really nice work.
Kagcomix, your comics are so funny! I love the second one especially, particularly the “their loss” line, ha ha!
Whew…I think that’s everyone.
Ok, I’m planning a massive epic long graphic novel series. May have to get a Deviantart account for this one. And practice my human/animal expressions.
CHIPMUNK! It’s so CUTE!
And that dream pic is fascinating!
Really nice, Tessera Rose!
Thanks for the comments guys!
I always draw “better” when I’m copying somebody else’s lines (not tracing, but looking back and forth between my version and the original) then drawing my own. I’m better at 2-D stuff (more cartooning, I guess?) then anything 3-D. I’ll have a 3-D picture in my head but then it comes out totally flat or completely odd-looking when I try to put it on the paper.
Not that that’s a bad thing, I guess. It’s just my own style.
Whoa Tessera Rose. For some reason I skipped your picture but I just saw it and it was really cool. *applaudes!*
Hhmmmmm. No one has posted in 3 days. But now I’ve broken that amount! So……. YAY!
Maybe I could send a few more of mine………. *ponders*
Okay, I have sent my picture in!
It’s five pages across and 3 1/2 feet long.
Yay me!
WOW! COOL! *can’t wait to see*
100- Yay! I can’t wait to see it.
I’ll send in a short animation I made, I guess, but it’s not really complete or meaningful. I just liked the kangaroo.
100- I’m really exited to see this!
100- Wow. That’s big. I can’t wait.
100-YAY!!!!! GAPAs,please post it before Thursday!
100) Ooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
For future reference, for anyone who scans in multiple sections, please allow an overlap of at least an inch on each adjoining side. Since the pieces never match up perfectly, the allowance provides some wiggle room in the re-assembly. Fortunately, this is a line drawing, so I can sketch in the joins, but doing so will delay posting until at least tomorrow.
101-106: I have the original drawing right next to me. Gwyn wanted me to bring it along for the Kokon, but she wasn’t finished inking, so the picture won’t be with the photos.
Alice isn’t in there (Gwyn couldn’t think of anything for you to do, Alice- sorry!), along with others. The GAPAs are in there (and Robert is Robert, and she did a great job of drawing him.). I do not like what she did with Master Baker, but I forced her to get rid of the “yo” and the mustache. but she will not get rid of the hat! Grrgh!
Fiddler’s jacket is, in fact, one of my one. In real life, instead of the Kokopellli, there is a tiger.
Favorite people- Cliff Eagle, Beavo, IBCF, ZVX, and Groundhog.
I had to pose for some of you, so you better like the positions of Miss Swann, Luna, and Fiddler (Fiddler especially, because I had to stay in that position for about five minutes!).
RtH looks like a little kid (I hate that cape!).
Beat and RoseQuartz, you’ll have to look closely at yourselves to figure it out.
Gwyn’s very happy because she did Nilly well. She doesn’t do Asians very well.
Gwyn and I can’t wait to read your thoughts!
Okay, I’m done torturing you. Do you like it, Lady B.?
(108) I do like it. Very much. There was no way to do it justice here, so I’ve created a separate thread for it.
108) It’s totally awesome! THough I said that on the other thread.
I’m trying to draw a series of dinosaurs. So far only the iguanadon has worked out. It’s an iguanadon with a baseball cap, giving the sumbs up. With “super cool” writen around it. I want to do a T-rex one that says “I am not Barney”. and one with raptors saying “we are coming for you and you are tasty”
111) Sweet. I’m currently at a loss for what to draw.
111- That sounds cool!
112/3- The one with the raptors is now with the bremin town musicians. Because raptors are hard to draw. It would be better with raptors in fancy hats.
These are way cool, I have no idea why I’ve never been on this thread…
62- Ooo… he is kind of smexy… Nthanda? Does he have a girlfriend in your story???
Ooh, sorry I haven’t been on this thread for a while! Thanks for the compliments, people.
‘Museblog Photo’ and ‘Side effects’ were hillarious and I also really liked ‘caroline’ tree (Zat your name, YodaShmoda?) Great work to everybody!
116- Ya. Couldn’t get rid of that part. I was afraid it wouldnj’t be allowed up on the web. Thanks for the compliments all.
I drew a really cool picture of my charectors from a fan-fic I’m writing. I could send it in… maybe.
115- Thanks, MS. I thought the beak would ruin my smexiness, but it looks like nothing can stop it. (JUST KIDDING)
115–Yes, unfortunately, although I must say he is rawther smexy and hot. And did I mention he’s a vampire?
Btw, Nthanda, I didn’t get the chance to properly express my adoration for your Ironman drawing on the last thread. It’s great. I just watched the movie again, and remembered it, and had to come and let you know again
121–Thanks! It’s funny, I loved that movie so much, and the suit, that the only way I could think of capturing it was to draw. The result is, I think, one of my favorite sketches I’ve ever done.
Just finished another sketch for art class. Not sure if I’ll send it in, I’m thinking of re-doing it.
Hey GAPAs!
Did you get the art I sent you?
OMG OMG OMG ART! That looks reeeally cool. I just got a horse manikin over vacation. I didn’t know they even made those. *awesome* Unfortunately, I haven’t done anything with it yet. I’ll send it in when I do, though.
Where is everyone? Well, alas, with the end of the semester has come the end of Art 2. I’ll have to take Art 3 next year.
If I can fight that battle with my Dad. But I won’t get into that here. *frown* Well, our teacher gave us our portfolios back, and I guess I should be happy, but my teacher ended up keeping like half of my art! all my favorite pieces are GONE! So I won’t get to show them to my family. But I suppose I should be happy that my teacher liked them so well that she wanted to keep them. I guess she’s entering them in contests. I guess. I kinda wanted to see them again though…….
Poopers. I failed. I tried to start up a conversation and I guess it didn’t work. Where is everyone?
Maybe watching the pre-Inauguration festivities on TV?
127) Maybe……. Perhaps……..
Sorry I haven’t been here in awhile!
Anyway, yesterday I got a brand new petfishie (yay!) and I also got a really god picture of him, too. I’ll send it in. His name is Delta, and he’s a red male Crowntail Betta. with blue mid-scales and white fin tips.
129) FISHIE!
I love fish! They’re so fun!
130-I know! I love fishies. As you can porbably tell.
Soooooooooooooooooooo…………. what’s everyone’s favorite form of art to work with? *hopes this starts conversation*
I like Artrage, but traditionally, I’m a sketch artist.
Artrage? What’s that? *is curious*
I usually use pencil with portraits. THose are fun.
Artrage is yet another Tablet PC drawing tool, but it’s a program that you have to purchase. I got it for Christmas. It’s got more tools and better detail than InkArt, the default art program for Windows tablets.
135) Oh. I was never good at that kind of thing. What kinds of things have you done? Maybe you could send them in?
I LOVE looking at computer art! Though i stink at it myself. Some of the stuff is so aweSOme!
136- Sure! I’ve just completed a close-up of my own eye, I’ll send it in right away for you to look at.
137) Thanks!
Last night I drew a comic. It stars Luna the Lovely and perhaps Kagy. I think l shall scan it and send it in. It’s actually right next to me, and I think l’ll do some editing…
From Agrrrfishi, see comment 129. Pardon the delay in posting.
FISHIE!
Awwwwww! He’s so pretty!
140: FishfishfishfishfishfishfishfishfishFFFFIIIISSSSHHH!!!!1!!!!one!!!!
I like your fish.
Love the fish, Aggie!
Has anyone here heard of woot.com? Or I guess shirt.woot.com?
Woot! sells one single item every day at a bargain. Shirt.woot sells one t-shirt (only one design, and up to three shirts per person) designed by a lone artist every day.
Well Shirt.Woot! has these derbies. The derby is woot!’s “weekly design competition, where users submit their own design ideas to a public vote, and we produce and sell the three most popular designs.” It gives you a theme, and then you submit your design. All the woot! members vote on their favorites, and the three winners get printed. And $1000, but that’s secondary. Isn’t that awesome?
So try it out, people.
You too, Rebecca, you could make some great t-shirt designs, I know it.
140- No worries. It’s fine.
141- I know, isn’t he? i love his finses.
142- I can tell.
143- Ooooheee, I want to try! *goes off to take a whack at it*
Artwork from Agrrrfishi:
Kagz, I love your stuff.
Wow, I haven’t been on here forever. *not sending anything in, though*
Mostly all I’ve offered to the world of art is a bunch of designs for costumes for various plays, mostly Pippin. Almost everything I draw is very Bob Fosse influenced.
145) Ooooooooooooooooooooooooo. I reallly like the eye brow. That’s awesomely awesome how you did all those little lashes in all those alternating colors. Its frankly hypnotizing.
Guess what?! I won in an art show with one of my pencil drawings!
Yay! I just heard it over my school’s announcements this morning……….
146) Pippin! You mean from the LOTR? He’s so awesome! :smile:Hobbits rule the world. (not the universe, cheese rules the universe)
147 – Pippin the musical.
Aggie, sweet layering and attention to detail. I would add more texture to the iris, it seems a little flat compared to everything else. Also, the eye is round, so you could do some shading.
I just downloaded Seashore. It’s pretty cool. Right now I’m using it as more of a paint program than an image manipulation program, but I’ll get there eventually. I tried to do a photo editing type thing, but I don’t think I completely understand the “alpha” channel, and I still don’t really understand the concept of layers.
Does anyone have any wisdom?
Sigh…I have no computerish skill when it comes to art-related stuff. The most technically advanced art program I currently have on my computer is Microsoft Paint.
Hence I use pencil, pastel, acrylics, and anything else I can get my hands on to make art. I’m thinking of doing an airbrush piece next. We’ll see how THAT comes out…could be a disaster.
139- Zinc, you should be sending in this comic imediately!
146- Thank-you very much Beavo.
Agrrrfish- your eye reminds me a bit of VFD.
151: Am doing. i’m sending it in through my mom’s email, methinks.
‘Snot here yet. *drums fingers on desktop* Is it too big?
GAPAs did you ever get the art I sent a while back? I think I sent something…. *tries to remember*
140: Love the fishie! ♥
I’m in an art class this semester. So far it’s fun, but kind of weird. It’s kind of a weird concept, actually. Art classes. Hmm.
If I draw something good I’ll send it in.
From Zinc, a “Muser Stick Figures” cartoon. Click through to see a larger version if you can’t read this one.
Zinc, the titles may look a little different because my computer doesn’t have the same fonts. Photoshop made substitutions, but I don’t know how close they are to your original choices. The dialogue should be the same.
157: YAY!
157 – Haha, that’s amazing. I’m rather like Luna on the subject of the end of the series.
(154) Kiwimuncher, yes, we have your pictures. Sorry, I lost track of them during the holiday travels and general craziness. Here they are:
“The first is a dot portrait of a woman made with marker. And the second is a pencil drawing of an old man’s face.”
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I added a little border to the pencil drawing so it would show up better.
160- How are you all so damn good at drawing and I suck!
157–but the movies suck!
I didn’t even realize it was starring me (and Kagz) until I read Tesseract’s post….. Yeah, I’m slow. long day. *is honored*
162- Yes, but there’s still the expirience!!!
161-Meh, life isn’t fair, huh. Let’s just get drunk.
Not really.
I finished this thing in Art, and Ms. Vail is always like “wow you’re good” which makes me feel bad because everyone else has been doing art forever, and I can’t even hold a paintbrush right.
164- I prefer to think of art as not holding a paintbrush correctly, but the visual conception of beauty in objects. Art can be anything, but not everything.
160 – Those are fantastic, and the second one is very powerful.
165–Profound
Yeah, art isn’t whether you’re “good” or not, it’s how much time you spend on a piece. I know for me, the longer I spend on a drawing/painting/whatever the better it is.
I just finished a few drawings…I’ll try to send them in w/in the next few days.
(164, 165) How you hold a paint brush isn’t about rules per se, it’s about allowing yourself enough freedom of movement to make the kinds of strokes you wish to make. There is not one correct way, any more than there is one correct style of painting. Mostly you’re just trying to stay out of your own way — which for most of us is not an easy thing to do, I might add. The paintbrush is an instrument, not unlike a piano or a fiddle. If you don’t learn the skills you can’t follow your vision when it beckons.
167- Time doesn’t necessarily make the outcome of an image more pleasing to the eye.
I don’t know what art is. I feel it like an aura, a spirit that flows between people, making connections.
There is a difference between art and making art. Confusing the two has induced many a potential artist to stash ens art materials in the back of the closet.
Another thought on paintbrushes (yes, it’s an obsession of mine right up there with “student grade” artists materials).
An English teacher I knew once mentioned that after observing students over the years, she’d concluded that one reason so many people hate to write is that they don’t know how to hold a pen or pencil comfortably. They twist around like a contortionist or clutch the pen in a death grip, so that the physical act of writing becomes unpleasant and fatiguing.
I see something similar in art students. They want to hold the brush as if it were a pencil, their arms are tight against their sides, their movement is constrained to their wrists and fingers. You might as well try to type wearing mittens.
169–Oh definitely not. I just have found in my own art (and in that of my friends) that the longer I spend on things, the better they get. Maybe it’s more about patience and work ethic than time.
Zinc, I am really, really flattered to be in your comic (no one ever puts me in comics). Thank you so much! That made my day! I am guessing I have the short hair? If so you got me pretty well for never having met me!
I’ve drawn countless more in my sketchbook, with bunnies, mr. Joe, and a number of other things.
161: It really sucks that the stuff I’m good at is acting, and you can’t act on a blog. I WISH I COULD DRAW! *pounds table*
157- i love your comic zinc. it is almost exactly how my brother acted when he realized there were no more HP books coming out
160-holy bananas kiwimuncher!Those drawing are amazing
i am sad to say that although my art teacher says i have a “gift” my parentals do not enjoy my sketches very much. they would rather i go study than make “scribbles on paper.”
how do i send my stuff in to be put on here? do i have to scan it or can i mail them to you by post? …your comic just gave me a kinda evil idea zinc. thank you
174: You scan it, then mail it to gapa@musefanpage.com . standard stuff you need to know.
157)
I know exactly what you mean. 
160) Thanks Rebecca!
Thanks for the comments guys!
Um, Administrator Rebecca… I know that foreign links aren’t allowed, but I can’t send any e-mails right now, and some of my photography is here:
[snip — See next comment.]
Maybe you could paste them here and then delete this post or something?
(177) KaiYves, I’ve made a space for your photos in the MBer Art Photobucket album. Nice work, by the way!
Thanks so much!
OMG! Those are totally awesome!
How did you do them? I loved the one with the bike! And the steps! And the column! And the yellow squiggle thing!
Hm. I’ve never been much of an artist, but I do enjoy fiddling around on [an excruciatingly old version of] Photoshop, so I think I’ll send in this one thing I made from scratch. It’s not terribly good, in my opinion, but I’ll send it anyway.
Piggy, you might be interested in Inkscape or GIMP if you’re looking for up to date software.
Very nice, KaiYves! I like the column a lot.
I’m planning on entering a piece of art into an art contest! I made an example of it to show my art teacher and she gave me some suggestions and I’m really excited about it! I think I might send it in!
At least, the one I haven’t changed yet. I haven’t completed the things my teacher suggested yet. 
183- Good luck, I hope you win!
182- Why would someone name a program “GIMP”?
Ay, the Fates have prevented me from sending email until this moment. Now I shall send my humble artwork to the GAPAs before sacrificing a goat to appease the gods.
182- Thanks. I’ll Google them.
185- It stands for ‘GNU Image Manipulation Program,’ which is why it is proper to say ‘the’ GIMP.
GNU stands for ‘GNU’s Not Unix’, which is a recursive acronym.
180- I just took some regular pictures and played with them in Photoshop. I think my favorite is the Film Grain Leaves or the Neon Glow Headlight. (The names are from the filters used and the name of the object being photographed.)
Did my picture come in fine, or is it too big?
Hello? Rebecca? Robert? Anybody?
Should I send in my HG2G illustrations?
189- Better too large than too small.
191-Yes.
Does anyone have any information on how to learn about the ‘rules’ of art and design? Things like balance and color. My art class is seriously lacking.
(192) Hard to know where to start. One place I can think of off the top of my head is handprint.com. (Start on handprint.com/HP/WCL/water.html) The site is geared towards watercolors, but it covers a lot of other territory about color theory, composition, perspective, and other aspects of design.
You might start with the section called “format proportions” (handprint.com/HP/WCL/tech11.html) to see if the author’s style of explanation works for you.
The site was put together by a guy named Bruce MacEvoy, who apparently made some money in the early dot.com era, then decided to tackle art. He did some meticulous research on everything from paint pigments to color theory and was generous enough to share.
The site can be aggravating at times, because he hasn’t written some of the more tantalizing articles. His technical approach may be overwhelming for some people, but I found it refreshing and much more practical than a lot of stuff out there. Reading his essays on color theory, vision, and light were truly transformative for me.
Thanks!
That’s exactly what I’ve been looking for. Art class is great, but I don’t feel liken I’m learning any lessons, just wandering by trial and error, into what looks good and what doesn’t. I suppose that’s what most of life’s learning is like though.
Haha, that was quite an expansive question.
(194) You’re welcome. Let me know how it goes.
One never escapes the trial and error, but the right kind of information can help you move it to a more productive — and interesting — level. Learning how to think about how art is constructed and how the mind perceives it goes a long way towards building intuition.
Another book I found especially helpful was “Vision and Art: the Biology of Seeing” by Margaret Livingstone. Much of the book is simply fun — optical illusions and how artists have made use of them. She also has a technical section on how our eyes interpret the world. While it’s not a guide to design in the usual sense, I find that the more I understand about how human vision works, the better decisions I can make over such questions as what to leave out, how to guide the eyes where I want them to go, and so on.
Keep us informed as to how it goes.
I understand the frustration with art classes. Except for a sculpture class in college and portrait painting courses I took on my own, I didn’t get much by way of useful instruction.
Cheese. Well, I’ve totally abandoned the first drawing a made to another! I’ve gotta start enlarging it soon…..
hmmmmm. I was never very good at painting. It’s just never worked for me. I’ve always preferred pencil or oil pastel. *feels tired*
I sent a picture in. Can you check your emails GAPAs
187- gimp is a derogatory term for someone who is unable to walk. Which is why what used to be called gimp (that plastic string stuff) is now called boondogle or moondogle or whatever. Hence my “why would they call it that?”
I like art classes because they give me a chance to experience all mediums. I’m really excited for next year because I’m taking more specialized courses (drawing&painting and life drawing). I hate working in clay but have had to in my art classes so it will be nice to only work on paper next year.
I just sent a comic and a paintingishthing.
Sooo… did my email not come or something?
I just looked at the photobucket thing “MB maps”, and by Bunny Planet map isn’t there………….*sigh*
(200) AthenianPsycho, that’s because I published that particular map as a Google doc instead of placing them in Photobucket.
(199) Piggy, I am right at this very moment catching up on the backlog of images that collected while I was away at the museum conference. Stay tuned.
Yay! Just sent some of my AP Studio Art stuff. More will probably be on the way, now that I’m photographing all my pieces…
From Midnight Violet (previously Nthanda the Laugher). These are from her AP Studio Art portfolio.
I like the middle one…..
The top one is creepy (it’s the eyes, or lack there of).
Although the last one is nice as well. Except that it makes me think of Twilight, due to the (presumed) vampire….
From kiwimuncher, who wrote:
From Piggy, as mentioned above:
From Trust Kokopelli, who describes it as “an abstract photo of my backyard.”
From Kagcomix:
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207- OK, the barney one- hilarious!!!!
207: I don’t get the first one, but I know I will find it hilarious when I understand it!
And I love them, by the way.
204–Yeah, I was inspired by Neil Gaiman’s “Vampire Sestina”, one of my favorite poems.
205–Wow, kiwi, that’s awesome! It’s very…I guess epic is the word I’m looking for, although that’s not quite right. In any case, I like the composition/placement of the piece. Nice job.
206–Piggy–I like it. It looks almost like a pixelated view of the world–like the purple part is the outline of continents…I dunno. It’s cool either way.
Trust Kokopelli–very cool. How do you do that type of effect (I assume it’s on a computer?)
207–Ha ha! I love the distance formula one.
209- It’s the formula for distance. It’s grade 10 math.
210–I don’t know that this is how trust kokopelli did it, but on my laptop (mac) under photobooth, I have the option to take a “thermal camera” picture. It’s not really thermal, it just does it based on amount of light, but…..if I were to take a picture w/ my computer out my window, it would look fairly similar….
Sorry, TK, if I’m giving your secrets away!
211: Oh. *is a sixth grader*
It’s okay. That’s not how I did it anyway. Oh fine, it is. I still like it though.
214–I like it, too. And that is a perfectly acceptable way of doing things. Especially if you are like me and artistically challenged.
Or even if you’re not.
I am artistically challenged Thanks!
213- I know.
203) I love your mask! Very well done!
206) Wowsers. I have no idea what that first one is but how did you do that boxy effect?
207) Hee hee.
Well, I think I already said this, but I’m totally abandoning the buffolo pic for something else. But I still like it anyway.
My school has this thing called Academic Olympics. It’s like a field day, but academic. There’s carictures of teachers (for art), an obstacle course (for PE), solos/ensembles for instruments/pianos (for band), alumminum foil boat-making (for science), and more. Anyone can enter them, so I’ve drawn a caricture of mr. Fish. i may send it in. Maybe not. *privacy issues ensue*
219- Well, what’s a field day?
203- That middle one is awsome. I love the contrast of the red and black.
205- I really like the buffalo. I tried to draw a buffalo once, it sucked.
WE did this Chuck Close inspired work at our school. It was really fun. We took one of our facial features drew it and shaded it with ink finger prints. Mine got in the art show. It’s not amazing but… I mgiht try and send it in once I get it back. If I get it back.
I’ve drawn this cute little cartoon that I want to send in, but sadly, I don’t know how to extract the PDF!!!
ARGH!
I’m enjoying art class immensely, actually. We have to do a drawing of our shoe, which is a little bit cliche, but very fun, given that my shoe is falling apart at the seams. I’m very proud of my drawing, though–I don’t think I’ve ever drawn anything quite so accurately, and while I know that accuracy isn’t everything, it’s still quite an accomplishment for me.
Before that we got a teensy bit of magazine and had to extend that into a picture, which was fun, because I got to play with colored pencils and learned how to make them look really good.
223) Oh! We had to do that assignment! I had fun with mine because it was shiny!
You know, shiny shoes and the light reflecting off of them is fun to draw.
post 220?
ANYONE HERE?
Me! I’m here! Sorry for the delay. You don’t know what a field day is? Doesn’t everyone have field days? You know, it’s where the whole school takes off a whole day near the end of the year to show off their sportyness at various races, games, track stuff, etc. And it’s very hot outside and everyone buys icecreamy things and everyone manages to have fun somehow, even if they don’t like sports. So, an acedemic field day would be much like that, except you would be showing off your smartness instead of your sportyness. Get it?
227: Something to add- there are physical competitions too. And I found out that one of my friends played the piano at Carnegie Hall. It all went like this:
(Mr. Fish)
and our gold medal winner is a sixth grader. not that surprising, really, since she played at Carnegie Hall. But give it up for Phoebe ***!
*clapclapclap*
WHHAAAA?! WHOWHATHUUUHH????!!!!
(everyone else)
(Me)
227- We don’t have them
227- We have those too! Boarding schools are much more competitive against other boarding schools than normal schools.
I painted yggdrasil with all the animals on my coat. Very pretty.
230- Oh my gosh! -wants- Can you take a picture and send it in?
I have created several very odd HG2G illustrations.
More artwork from kiwimuncher. The drawing of the girl won first place in the state.
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233- Oh my gosh, Kiwi, those are so good! First place in the state, congratulations!!! *victory pie*
This reminds me, I’ve been meaning to do this…
[Sorry, Flickr allows two-way contact. Instead I copied the pictures. Flickr normally requires a link back to the site, but I’m considering your intent to post as permission to use them here. –Rebecca]
I have some cartoons that I drew recently, and I opened a special Flickr account just for them, would it be possible to let these links through or copy them here please? It would save a whole lot of trouble.
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All you people are so good at drawing!
I need to draw more. Most of my stuff comes out too tiny and cramped or it looks weird or I draw too dark. I did draw this interesting finger puppet thing recently that looks good, though. And one of a guy golfing. But the guy is too skinny. I should really stop criticizing my drawings.
234- Thank you!
234) *scream* OMGTHEY’RESOCUTE!
I want to hug them! It’s the widdle lion! Aw! And the widdle dinosaur! *scream*
The Warty Pickle is awesome!
Those are so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Moochas gracias
Hopefully my pictures are coming.
I messed up on scanning- I put ’em in a word document. I’ll scan them (including the May Ball dress) and send them in again.
I draw House MD-based comics. Here’s a link:[Snip. No links to personal web sites.]
The GAPAs have asked in the past that you not post links to personal webpages or blogs, even if they do have cool comics on them.
Thanks, Cat’s Meow. That one slipped past me.
but its not personal! theres nothing but comics on it!
It is personal, if it’s yours. Besides, the site contains a comment form that collects email addresses.
so does museblog!
Cheese. I like to draw hands. *thinks random thoughts*
Muse a pied!
Drawings from RoseQuartz:
Drawings from small but fierce:
Those aren’t my best drawings, but I like them nevertheless. You shall see more of SBF’s drawings, MuseBloggers! *laughs maniacally*
Those were lame drawings on my part, and I will send in my good ones soon.
Are you kidding? They’re great!
The drawings are characters in my novel. See BiP.
I am going to send in my photoshop images!
Hello? Did you receive my images?
Hello?! CAN YOU PLEASE POST MY IMAGES?! Come ON! PLEASE? Pretty Please?
With-
Luigi: Lotsa Spaghetti!
Mario: No.
Luigi: Lotsa Spaghetti!
Dr Ivo Robotnik: NO!!!
Luigi: Lotsa Spaghetti!
Me: T_T …i was going to say sprinkles on top.
Luigi: Lotsa Spaghetti!
Me: You DARE bring up “Lotsa Spaghetti!” in my lair?! You must…
Luigi: Oh No! *runs away* Marioooo!
Me: -_- …i didn’t even finish my sentence. Luigi must be a fan of CDI Link. Or CDI Gannon. Or something.
Luigi: Halp!
Mario: No.
Dr Ivo Robotnik: NO!!!
Luigi: Whaaa! Bye Bye! *runs to canada*
Me: T_T I give up.
Oh, by the way, I might put the above dialog in a comic. So, Grate… er, Great and Powerful GAPAs, please don’t destroy it.
*puppy eyes*
You sent a bunch of pictures that have to be converted to postable formats. I wasn’t home long enough yesterday to get any further than unzipping the contents.
Oh, okay.
*is happy*
What *is* postable format? If I ever get around to sending in pictures I’d rather just convert them to something myself than make you guys do the work.
JPG, PNG, or GIF. We appreciate your thoughtfulness.
I’m probably going to send in some pictures I took, once my sister finds her camera. I don’t have one, but my sister does and she’s not too enthusiastic about it. See, you don’t want to look at my drawings. Though I can do decent stuff with watercolor pencils, and I drew some birdhouses a while back that I was proud of…
Doom? That’s sad.
But it’s a good drawing, despite its being crumpled up. 
Ello, I have exciting news!!! I won a local art contest with a picture I drew on Ink Art! *squeals* Oooh, I’m excited. This may be one of my biggest life’s accomplishments. I wonder if you guys would like it to…it’s a portrait of one of my best friends after she just got her hair cut. Not very special, but I think she liked it. I gave it to her for her birthday.
I’ve actually copied the picture to a Flickr I just made; would it be okay just to copy the link so that I could put it on the blog? Or, if you would, I could just send it in. I’m in no hurry. =]
Congratulations, Agrrrfishi! We’d prefer you send it in.
How do you post a picture?
Agrrrfishi- Nice! I like it.
I’ll send in my Three Griffins once I have enough free time to scan them into the computer.
Woah, what happened with my post?