Monday Morning Minnie -- Variations

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Taking the simplified image of Minnie from last week, I've made some simple variations to convey a series of moods or emotions.

(Thanks to Jack Atkins for the idea -- the "surprise" variation was his!)

My apologies for the lateness of this post. Blogger is having a problem uploading image files, and I've been trying since yesterday. It wasn't until now that it occurred to me I could upload it myself and then just link to the image here. Duh.

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Inspiration: Otto Soglow

Goofbutton.com has posted a great collection of single-panel cartoons and sequences of Otto Soglow.

Soglow's one of those artists whose work you've probably seen, but didn't know who did it. I've seen his work in countless old books and magazines growing up. His little king character might seem familiar. Enjoy!

Thanks to Drawn: The Illustration and Cartooning Blog for letting me know about this post.

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Baldo Artist Draws on YouTube -- and I Open My Big Mouth!

The Daily Blogger has a link to a YouTube video of Baldo artist Carlos Castellanos drawing his character. Well, when I say drawing... He's really just doing the inking, which he does digitally. It's a nice video, but ever since I was a kid, whenever I hear about someone showing how they draw something, I want them to reveal everything. I want to discern all the secrets of cartooning and storytelling and illustration, and all I get is to see someone drawing a picture.

It's a standard no one could live up to. And this wasn't supposed to be a tutorial -- which Carlos himself tells me in his response to my curmudgeonly post. Me and my big mouth, I had to say that I wanted to see the whole creative process in this quick little video.

So now that I've said that, and Carlos so graciously turned the tables on me, now it's on me to produce a video of my own -- one that shows the entire creative process. Are you kidding me? I have to live up to my own standards? What have I gotten myself into?

Well, it's going to be a while, since I don't even have a video camera, and I'm going to be moving cross-country in two weeks, but once we get settled in, and I find a camera, and I figure out how to do this...

...I'll have that video.

In the meantime, some really great stuff happened from all this. I got to communicate with Carlos, who said he liked my work -- cool! This whole blogging thing is already paying off!

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First Post!

Many bloggers look back on their first posts, months later, and marvel and the feebleness of their first attempt. But I plan on doing that immediately with this first post.

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