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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Swords and Sorcery

Overall Review (in brief)

I’m not really sure why this one falls under the ‘How to Draw’ heading. Yes, there are a handful of ‘step-by-steps’, but the vast majority of the book seems to be a collection (and analysis) of concept art. The art is what saves this one – not the ‘how to’-ness.
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So anyone who knows anything about my web browsing habits has heard me talk about the ConceptArt.org forums. It’s an amazing place chock full with some of the very best artists alive today. Thing is, that’s not really what makes it amazing to me. What really makes it rawk is the willingness of a large number of those artists to be helpful and give constructive critiques to… well… to guys like me. They do this free of charge (so long as you show genuine effort) and are doing an amazing job of building a community of artists who bolster one another.

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