September 2007
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Drawing
Silhouette tree (study: Trees)
I thought that I’d finaly found a method to draw trees in color.
Starting out with the silhouette of a tree in one color and then adding more colors. But I don’t like this drawings. The drawing I made yesterday is better.
I’ll have to go with the theory that it’s quite possibe to work rough when [...] -
Drawing
Abstracting a tree (sketch: Tree)
09.26.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsIf I can’t trace the picture in my mind I should try to draw something that looks like it.
For the last few months I’ve been trying to draw objects in the way I see them in my mind. Photographic memory quality.
But that doesn’t seem to work. Probably because I don’t have the skills.
So I’ve decided [...] -
Personal
Computer teaches life lesson
A computer game teaches me to always play my “A” game even when the odds are stacked against me.
Practice, practice, practice. Every teacher and every coach will tell you that is the only way to learn skills. To practice and to learn them in the right order.
When you want to learn to tennis you’ll start [...] -
Drawing
Knowledge versus skills (Sketch: Tree)
Or why having a photographic memory seems to be a disadvantage when you’re learning how to draw.
Over the last two years I’ve learned how to play poker. I won’t say that I’m the worlds best poker player but I can hold my own in free games.
Two years ago I saw something about poker sites on the [...] -
Blogging
Marketing my drawings
I’m going start a shop to sell my drawing. That makes it possible to change my blog and make it interesting.
There’s a blogging saying that goes something like “It’s nice when ten people read your blog. It’s nicer when a hundred people read your blog and it’s very nice when a thousand people read your [...] -
Blogging
Amazon shop on my site
There are a lot of books about drawing and it would be nice to have a way to link to them. For that end I’ve been looking for a widget that will automatically link to interesting Amazon products. I finally found one.
The only problem with this widget is that it creates context links. Those links [...] -
Blogging
Viral traffic gain method for starting bloggers
I’ve found some more information and figured something out that makes Blogrush very interesting for people who just started a blog or any other kind of website.
Blogrush is a new service by John Reese (a big name in Internet marketing) to increase your traffic.
Blogrush places a little widget on your site with links to related sites. [...] -
Autism
Two methods to fail at everything you try
Over the last forty years I’ve found two ironclad methods to never succeed at anything I try.
The first method, off course, is good old procrastination. Just don’t start at anything that could lead to some kind of succes.
At this moment for instance, I should be drawing trees. But although I have a fairly good idea [...] -
Drawing
How should I draw trees (Sketch: Trees)
I wanted to draw a little group of trees in fall that where loosing their leafs. With all the reds, browns, yellow and greens. But when I started I realized that I still don’t know how to draw trees.
I have all those pictures of real trees and painted trees in my mind. The real trees [...] -
Drawing
Sketch: Basket case
At night lying in bed I close my eyes and look straight ahead and all sorts of pictures pop into my head. Usualy they’re quite nice and sometime they’re very complicated.
Basket case
This drawing resembles one of the most complicated pictures I’ve ever had. Resembles. The colors are all wrong. In a few days I will [...]
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