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Overall Review (in brief)

Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist is good, solid book for artists even if it is a bit… simplified. That is the point, after all, and Christopher Hart Seems to accomplish it well. This is a simple ‘breakdown’ of anatomy. Rather than get too terribly specific about the details of each sinew of a muscle, he teaches the basic shape. In a world of deadlines and concept art sketch work, this seems a nearly mandatory book to have in your collection - even if you’ll only use it ‘once in a while’.

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NaNoNoteBook

Art fans - a warning: this isn’t really art related, but I wanted to ‘offer this up to the world’, so the more spots I can place it, the better.

I think that I’m going to take part in NaNoWriMo this year. I’ve never done it before, but it seems like a Really Good Thing™, so here goes.

As many of you who know me personally know, I’m a huge fan of Jeremy Ruston’s free wiki notebook TiddlyWiki. I’m currently working on a modification of that delightful file for use by authors - especially NaNo authors.

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