Another artist I would love to be like is Scott McCloud (whose home online is at ScottMcCloud.com). He’s probably given more thought to his art than any other artist I’ve encountered; Scott strives to understand and to share his understanding of the comic. He has carefully analyzed the place comics hold within the worlds of…
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Art Heroes: Mark Kistler
Here’s another sketch tribute to one of my earliest art heroes: Mark Kistler, television drawing teacher! He’s got a site over at Draw3D.com. I still have never seen Mark on TV, but as a young boy I was given the Imagination Station book and tore through its pages, learning important concepts such as foreshortening, perspective,…
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I thought that while I’m getting back into sketching I should say thank you to some artists that I really admire and would like to imitate. First up is Scott Johnson over at MyExtraLife.com. Scott’s artwork has always struck me as sort of Muppet-ish, and coming from me that’s a compliment. Not only is his…
Read moreTemporal Spirituality
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo (of the ’71 Stanford Prison Experiment) has some pretty crazy ideas, but I think he’s on to something with his talk at TED 2009 (6:34). He suggests that the way we cope with temptation (and eventually our overall success in life) is tightly linked to a personal trait that we don’t give…
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