So. It's been a while. I'm going to ignore that and just try to jump right back in. I can't think of a better way to do this than with the good old National Dog Show.
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Showing posts with label Meta. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Ye Olde Traditional National Dog Show Sketches!
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
The Six Fanart Challenge!
This was a lot of fun! First, the Twitter thread that started the whole thing:
I eventually did use the grid thing for the cleaned up color version:
And now, closeups of each color version!
I’m going to do it why not? #SixFanarts pic.twitter.com/6uPwnh1Siy— Trish (@Babbletrish) April 8, 2020
I eventually did use the grid thing for the cleaned up color version:
And now, closeups of each color version!
Thursday, June 7, 2018
MerMay 2018!
Yay I did it! I drew a mermaid for every single day in May! Wooo! Here they all are in a big ol' Twitter Moment!
MerMay 2018
And - AND - because I love you, some bonus mermaid art and fun stuff I posted elsewhere during the month, with bonus bonus comments, like Instagram:
Great day in the morning, the Illo is a fantastic Sketchbook! I've gone through a rash of Moleskine-alikes and this one is my favorite so far. Perfect size, takes all the media I like joyfully, and scans like a dream. You know a Sketchbook is quality when you've moved on to the next one (which isn't even bad, just very very different) and you already miss it and want to get more of them.
From now on, if I can help it, I'll never not use this stuff when painting Loons.
This was just a silly thing I made for fun but I broke the first rule of Animorphs cover parodies: the eyes are the "anchor". Woops.
And for younger "My Little Pony" fans thinking, "Wait, I don't get it?" enjoy.
And stuff from Tumblr:
Now, I'm a little burnt out so maybe I won't be doing the daily JuneFae Challenge, but a periodic piece of Fairy fun isn't unreasonable. Here's a little rainy day Fae:
MerMay 2018
And - AND - because I love you, some bonus mermaid art and fun stuff I posted elsewhere during the month, with bonus bonus comments, like Instagram:
Great day in the morning, the Illo is a fantastic Sketchbook! I've gone through a rash of Moleskine-alikes and this one is my favorite so far. Perfect size, takes all the media I like joyfully, and scans like a dream. You know a Sketchbook is quality when you've moved on to the next one (which isn't even bad, just very very different) and you already miss it and want to get more of them.
From now on, if I can help it, I'll never not use this stuff when painting Loons.
This was just a silly thing I made for fun but I broke the first rule of Animorphs cover parodies: the eyes are the "anchor". Woops.
And for younger "My Little Pony" fans thinking, "Wait, I don't get it?" enjoy.
And stuff from Tumblr:
Now, I'm a little burnt out so maybe I won't be doing the daily JuneFae Challenge, but a periodic piece of Fairy fun isn't unreasonable. Here's a little rainy day Fae:
Monday, March 12, 2018
In Which Barbie and I Both Celebrate Our Birthdays In EPCOT!
😍😍😍 HEY WOW WOWIE WOW AWESOME COOL FUN PARTY BARBIE BIRTHDAY AWESOME WOW YIPPEE YAY WIZARD WOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😍😍😍💩🍹🍰
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Okay, this one is going to take some explaining.
If you spend any significant amount of time in the Disney fan portion of this vast sea we call the Internet, you'll find that one thing Disney Park fans like to complain about is the inclusion of popular established characters in Epcot attractions. This hasn't been bothering me nearly as much as it does others, but after watching "BARBIE BIRTHDAY PARTY AT WALT DISNEY WORLD EPCOT '94!!!" (henceforth, "BARBIE IN EPCOT" because I just... can't) I can see where the dissent is coming from.
The whole "BARBIE IN EPCOT" thing was actually a contractual obligation between Disney and Mattel and ye gods, does it ever look like it. I feel like this must have been the Faustian bargain for all the Mattel characters they got to include in "Toy Story". The stage show lasted a little over a year and a half, and just about the only real evidence that it wasn't some kind of group hallucination is this video. The video was available for purchase with special Barbie dolls for a penny, which seems about right.
On the one hand, it's always neat to get a behind-the-scenes look at Disney stage shows, and the segments about how birthdays are celebrated around the world are very nice. On the other hand, you have the screaming 90's child actors. Do anything you can to prepare yourself, because the screaming 90's child actor hosts of this special are like entire seasons of "Full House" made flesh. I hate them, I hate them so much, and it's as much about the screaming and their being genuinely horrible (get your damn fingers off that beautiful cake you monsters!) as it is that I wish I could get as excited about anything as these screaming 90's child actors get about literally everything.
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Because it's my Birthday and I love you (and also because Faebruary's still in my rear-view mirror and St. Patrick's Day is this weekend) have a Bonus Especially Weird Disney Thing! Let me show you the traditional dances of my people:
This isn't what I saw a few nights ago in Raglan Road after downing two Kilkennys (though it's close). This is "Light Magic". It's from 1997 and was meant to be the replacement, in Disneyland, for the Main Street Electrical Parade. Once again, home videos like this are about the only real evidence this wasn't a mass hallucination.
It's also from that very weird, very specific, and thankfully very over period where Disney Parks defined "parade" as "Three or four floats that ride down the street, then stop and stay still for several minutes at a time to do a long elaborate show, then start moving again to suddenly stop and do another show and so on". It went over even less well than "BARBIE IN EPCOT", not even surviving one whole year.
To paraphrase Cap'n Wacky,
May the good Fairies draw near to you,
And spread love and luck with their weird little dances every day.
And may a good strong drink
Make the memories of horrible screaming 90's child actors go away.
😨
Okay, this one is going to take some explaining.
If you spend any significant amount of time in the Disney fan portion of this vast sea we call the Internet, you'll find that one thing Disney Park fans like to complain about is the inclusion of popular established characters in Epcot attractions. This hasn't been bothering me nearly as much as it does others, but after watching "BARBIE BIRTHDAY PARTY AT WALT DISNEY WORLD EPCOT '94!!!" (henceforth, "BARBIE IN EPCOT" because I just... can't) I can see where the dissent is coming from.
The whole "BARBIE IN EPCOT" thing was actually a contractual obligation between Disney and Mattel and ye gods, does it ever look like it. I feel like this must have been the Faustian bargain for all the Mattel characters they got to include in "Toy Story". The stage show lasted a little over a year and a half, and just about the only real evidence that it wasn't some kind of group hallucination is this video. The video was available for purchase with special Barbie dolls for a penny, which seems about right.
On the one hand, it's always neat to get a behind-the-scenes look at Disney stage shows, and the segments about how birthdays are celebrated around the world are very nice. On the other hand, you have the screaming 90's child actors. Do anything you can to prepare yourself, because the screaming 90's child actor hosts of this special are like entire seasons of "Full House" made flesh. I hate them, I hate them so much, and it's as much about the screaming and their being genuinely horrible (get your damn fingers off that beautiful cake you monsters!) as it is that I wish I could get as excited about anything as these screaming 90's child actors get about literally everything.
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Because it's my Birthday and I love you (and also because Faebruary's still in my rear-view mirror and St. Patrick's Day is this weekend) have a Bonus Especially Weird Disney Thing! Let me show you the traditional dances of my people:
This isn't what I saw a few nights ago in Raglan Road after downing two Kilkennys (though it's close). This is "Light Magic". It's from 1997 and was meant to be the replacement, in Disneyland, for the Main Street Electrical Parade. Once again, home videos like this are about the only real evidence this wasn't a mass hallucination.
It's also from that very weird, very specific, and thankfully very over period where Disney Parks defined "parade" as "Three or four floats that ride down the street, then stop and stay still for several minutes at a time to do a long elaborate show, then start moving again to suddenly stop and do another show and so on". It went over even less well than "BARBIE IN EPCOT", not even surviving one whole year.
To paraphrase Cap'n Wacky,
May the good Fairies draw near to you,
And spread love and luck with their weird little dances every day.
And may a good strong drink
Make the memories of horrible screaming 90's child actors go away.
Friday, March 2, 2018
The Faebruary Gallery!
Whew, I did another month's worth of daily art challenges! And I made my first Twitter Moment to share them. Enjoy:
#Faebruary 2018!
I'll be honest, part of why I turned this into a Moment is to see how one looks like here. Storify is going down in May and I need a new home for my Tweetmentaries after all...
#Faebruary 2018!
I'll be honest, part of why I turned this into a Moment is to see how one looks like here. Storify is going down in May and I need a new home for my Tweetmentaries after all...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
The... Somewhat Delayed Inktober Wrap-up
So, an awful lot of things happened between the last blog post and this one and most of them were, indeed, awful. I apologize in advance for the sad news but having hadn't posted in ages, I feel like an explanation is owed.
The month began with the sudden passing of my uncle, one of the funniest people I ever knew and the husband of my Godmother, who passed away last year. This has, all told, been a hell of a couple of years for me. Much of October was spent dealing with the fallout from this. And just as my family and I were starting to get a handle on things, the month ended with The Nameless Storm. At least ten trees were down in our neighborhood and we lost power for a week (we have a generator thank goodness, but still). Fun times.
So October, the month, was a seemingly endless nightmare.
INK-tober, however, was fantastic. I loved seeing everyone's art; it really did cheer me up during a terrible time. I also drew a picture for every single day in October and honestly, I have no idea how I even did it. To tell the truth, I'm a little soured on daily art challenges even though this was mostly stressful because of extenuating circumstances. Anyway, here they all are. Head to Flickr for the larger versions and more information:
Friday, July 7, 2017
Pardon Our Pixie Dust
Yeah... I have a mess of broken images; basically anything that wasn't hosted here or Flickr. I'm in the (long, long) process of fixing it, though.
7/7/17, 6:19 PM EST - Got all my images off the Image Hosting Service That Shall Not Be Named (except in the comments below, whoopsie-daisy). Tomorrow I'll do the part where I read my entire Blog in chronological order and fix the broken image links. (Cries quietly.)
7/8/17, 10:00 AM - Yup. Going to go through and fix all those broken image links and basically get rid of this ugly sucker that is freaking everywhere:
5:30 PM - My God, I'm not even done with 2009 yet...😰
Though I did skip around a little and fix nearly everything in the Chronological Disney Canon and the Dougal Dixon book posts.
7/9/17, 4:00 PM-ish - Ugh, this is (if you will forgive my language) such a sh*tshow. I'm about as far as the basement cleanout of 2010. Why'd I have to be so good about posting something at least twice a week back then?
8:00 PM - Worked backwards to switch things up a bit and now I'm somewhere in the middle of August 2015. Gettin' there.
7/10/17, Noon-ish - Archiving my Twitter so it'll be a little easier to convert The Princess Project and other Tweetmentaries to Storifys. Go enjoy the "Frozen" Tweetmentary!
7/12/17, 3:00 PM - I realize I'm in the home stretch of converting the Princess Project Tweetmentaries...
Then I think of all the Vintage Paleoarts and trip reports...
6:00 PM -But the Princess Project is all Storified and looks, if I may say, better than ever. Go and enjoy!
7/13/17, 7:30 PM - I think, I THINK I have all the Animation marathons done. Tomorrow, I tackle the vintage paleoart books.
7/14/17, 9:00 PM - And I think I'm done? I think I'm done. I get to reward myself with dinner now.
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7/18/17 - So now that the dust has settled and the blood has dried and the vomit has congealed, and most importantly I have had a chance to rest, what is there left to say about this?
I am, first of all an most of all, unspeakably angry that all of this happened and I can't believe it went down the specific way it did. It also made me think of how God-damned ephemeral everything we ever do ultimately is, and I, like most human beings, hate that. Thank you, a-holes behind the Image Hosting Service That Shall Not Be Named (except in the comments below, whoopsie-daisy), for making me think about this. I do not like you and I hope you lose loads of users because of this.
I'm sad to say that a lot of quirkiness has had to go. I'm using the default Blogger smilies instead of the ones that I've been collecting since - jeez, back in the Yesterdayland days. I lost a lot of gardening photos but I'm not sure who ever came here for gardening advice anyway. Thankfully, I think only two entire posts (both local comic convention trip reports) were lost altogether. I was able to save all the really popular posts and for that I'm extremely grateful.
But boy, would I have liked to have not had to do any of this at all.
7/7/17, 6:19 PM EST - Got all my images off the Image Hosting Service That Shall Not Be Named (except in the comments below, whoopsie-daisy). Tomorrow I'll do the part where I read my entire Blog in chronological order and fix the broken image links. (Cries quietly.)
7/8/17, 10:00 AM - Yup. Going to go through and fix all those broken image links and basically get rid of this ugly sucker that is freaking everywhere:
5:30 PM - My God, I'm not even done with 2009 yet...😰
Though I did skip around a little and fix nearly everything in the Chronological Disney Canon and the Dougal Dixon book posts.
7/9/17, 4:00 PM-ish - Ugh, this is (if you will forgive my language) such a sh*tshow. I'm about as far as the basement cleanout of 2010. Why'd I have to be so good about posting something at least twice a week back then?
8:00 PM - Worked backwards to switch things up a bit and now I'm somewhere in the middle of August 2015. Gettin' there.
7/10/17, Noon-ish - Archiving my Twitter so it'll be a little easier to convert The Princess Project and other Tweetmentaries to Storifys. Go enjoy the "Frozen" Tweetmentary!
7/12/17, 3:00 PM - I realize I'm in the home stretch of converting the Princess Project Tweetmentaries...
Then I think of all the Vintage Paleoarts and trip reports...
6:00 PM -But the Princess Project is all Storified and looks, if I may say, better than ever. Go and enjoy!
7/13/17, 7:30 PM - I think, I THINK I have all the Animation marathons done. Tomorrow, I tackle the vintage paleoart books.
7/14/17, 9:00 PM - And I think I'm done? I think I'm done. I get to reward myself with dinner now.
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7/18/17 - So now that the dust has settled and the blood has dried and the vomit has congealed, and most importantly I have had a chance to rest, what is there left to say about this?
I am, first of all an most of all, unspeakably angry that all of this happened and I can't believe it went down the specific way it did. It also made me think of how God-damned ephemeral everything we ever do ultimately is, and I, like most human beings, hate that. Thank you, a-holes behind the Image Hosting Service That Shall Not Be Named (except in the comments below, whoopsie-daisy), for making me think about this. I do not like you and I hope you lose loads of users because of this.
I'm sad to say that a lot of quirkiness has had to go. I'm using the default Blogger smilies instead of the ones that I've been collecting since - jeez, back in the Yesterdayland days. I lost a lot of gardening photos but I'm not sure who ever came here for gardening advice anyway. Thankfully, I think only two entire posts (both local comic convention trip reports) were lost altogether. I was able to save all the really popular posts and for that I'm extremely grateful.
But boy, would I have liked to have not had to do any of this at all.
Friday, January 27, 2017
The State of the Chronological Disney Animated Canon Series
See the thing is, I reviewed "TRON: Legacy".
Let's back up. The issue I'm wrestling with right now is the question of what I should and should not count as a Disney Animated Feature for my ongoing "Review Every Animated Disney Feature" project. It used to be easy to answer: "Duh, it's a film with animation by Walt Disney Feature Animation. Also, whatever Disney movies with animation in them were considered animated films by all those Disney Channel specials and montages and such. ALSO also, whatever is listed on The Official Walt Disney Features Animated Canon Big Ol' List Thing on Wikipedia and elsewhere. Golly, maybe this isn't an easy answer?"
So what's going on in my head right now is, like, do I have to review the new "Pete's Dragon" if I reviewed the original? Cause again, I reviewed the "TRON" sequel. And "TRON: Legacy" doesn't have any more or less animation in it than any other blockbuster released by Disney in the past twenty years (and I really don't want to have to revisit the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series). And what of 2016's "The Jungle Book", which is an animated Disney film by any meaningful definition of the term? If I review that, does that mean I have to do the other remakes of movies that are very definitely officially Disney Animated Canon features? (Which would of course mean having to revisit Tim Burton's "Alice" movies and... no, please, God, no.)
I know all of this is ultimately up to me. It's getting very tricky though. Any helpful suggestions in the comments will be greatly appreciated.
For more posts in this ongoing series, go here, or click the Chronological Disney Animated Canon tag below.
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Art of the Day!
Thanxalotl.
Let's back up. The issue I'm wrestling with right now is the question of what I should and should not count as a Disney Animated Feature for my ongoing "Review Every Animated Disney Feature" project. It used to be easy to answer: "Duh, it's a film with animation by Walt Disney Feature Animation. Also, whatever Disney movies with animation in them were considered animated films by all those Disney Channel specials and montages and such. ALSO also, whatever is listed on The Official Walt Disney Features Animated Canon Big Ol' List Thing on Wikipedia and elsewhere. Golly, maybe this isn't an easy answer?"
So what's going on in my head right now is, like, do I have to review the new "Pete's Dragon" if I reviewed the original? Cause again, I reviewed the "TRON" sequel. And "TRON: Legacy" doesn't have any more or less animation in it than any other blockbuster released by Disney in the past twenty years (and I really don't want to have to revisit the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series). And what of 2016's "The Jungle Book", which is an animated Disney film by any meaningful definition of the term? If I review that, does that mean I have to do the other remakes of movies that are very definitely officially Disney Animated Canon features? (Which would of course mean having to revisit Tim Burton's "Alice" movies and... no, please, God, no.)
I know all of this is ultimately up to me. It's getting very tricky though. Any helpful suggestions in the comments will be greatly appreciated.
For more posts in this ongoing series, go here, or click the Chronological Disney Animated Canon tag below.
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Art of the Day!
Thanxalotl.
Thursday, January 19, 2017
In Which I've Been Trying to Make Janphibianuary a Thing
Well, we had MerMay and JuneFae and either AnJuly or JuLycanthrope. We had Draw DiNovember and DecemBird and March Mammal Madness is coming up. So why not dedicate a month to drawing frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians?
It... does not appear to be catching on. Well, here's everything I've drawn so far:
(It says something when even the person trying to make a monthly art challenge a thing has to do a make-up day. Twice.)
And while it's not in chronological order, I'm saving this Kermit portrait for last because I'm very proud of it. It's about the only time I got overpriced art markers to cooperate.
Maybe I'll have more luck making FebruarFish a Thing?
It... does not appear to be catching on. Well, here's everything I've drawn so far:
(It says something when even the person trying to make a monthly art challenge a thing has to do a make-up day. Twice.)
And while it's not in chronological order, I'm saving this Kermit portrait for last because I'm very proud of it. It's about the only time I got overpriced art markers to cooperate.
Maybe I'll have more luck making FebruarFish a Thing?
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