[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-friday-in-black-and-white":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I found today's sketch in Greenwich Park terribly frustrating. I've been drawing a lot of close-ups of trees, which is pretty much the same thing as doing a life drawing of a person. But I've never been good at landscape drawings where I step back from one big foreground object (unless I draw it highly stylised, like \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/324795.html\">this picture\u003C/a>), and today was no exception. I really need to keep working on this.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/grnwichpk_17dec10-ec10f02a36.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOn an interesting note, you see that little ball at the top of the tower on the left? That's Greenwich Royal Observatory, and ships on the Thames used to set their clocks when that ball dropped on the hour. It's where we get the expression 'on the ball'. \\r\n\\r\nSpeaking of stylised landscapes, I love seeing those made by comics artist Darryl Cunningham. The Comics Bureau has just posted \u003Ca href=\"http://thecomicsbureau.co.uk/?p=1627\">an interview with him that I'm bookmarking to read on my tea break\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://thecomicsbureau.co.uk/?p=1627\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/darryl_town-b37d68db2e.gif\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nAnother bit of news! Brilliant DFC colleague \u003Cb>Jamie Smart\u003C/b> \u003Ca href=\"http://www.fumboo.com/blog/so-im-drawing-for-dr-who/\">just announced on his blog\u003C/a> that he's going to spend much of next year drawing for a \u003Cb>new Dr Who magazine\u003C/b> coming out next spring! Gary put him up for the job, and for awhile, we had lots of amazing pictures of monsters coming into the studio, but we were told if we breathed a word about them to anyone, they'd have to kill us. (Then a lot of time passed and I kind of forgot about it; these kinds of publishing announcement really DO take forever!) \\r\n\\r\nSpeaking of top secret, Gary's working on an amazing project right now on his drawing board. I keep stopping my work to walk over, look and say, 'aw, maaan'. But he's got his Beano slingshot on the ready in case I even THINK of breathing a word about it.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gary_secretproject-78bd452c14.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more More under the cut, including some Hourly Comics stuff-->\\r\nJames Harvey's been tagging drawings from one of his Hourly Comic Days, and vain gal that I am, I was super chuffed to see myself popping up in them. (Thanks, James!) Have a look at his \u003Ca href=\"http://harveyjames.livejournal.com/\">Harvey James website\u003C/a>. (On LiveJournal, he's \u003Ca href=\"http://harveyjames.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">harveyjames\u003C/a>.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/jamesharvey_hourly-3e31ed022d.jpg\">\\r\nGuess... which one's me?\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/jamesharvey_snow2010-a97933342c.jpg\">\\r\n...Yeah, okay, the really tall one.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/jamesharvey_hourly2-bd7fea1843.gif\">\\r\nJames says I didn't look that didactic in real life. But it was a comic about something horrific that happened in a jail cell, I think with Hitler and a unicorn making an appearance, and I wasn't sure I could really give it the right kind of editorial assistance.\\r\n\\r\nSpeaking of hourlies, here's an Hourly Comic I did ages ago, about \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/75201.html\">the day in the life of an illustrator\u003C/a> (before I had a studio). \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/75201.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_hc01-0a8ee909d2.gif\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/75201.html\">\u003Ci>Click here to read the whole comic\u003C/i>\u003C/a>","2010-12-17T13:08:00.000Z","friday-in-black-and-white",[],"friday in black and white",1776628719362]