Have you heard the podcast “Everything is Alive“? In each episode of this unscripted interview series, inanimate objects share their perspectives, and tell us their life story. Louis, a can of cola, talks about his start at the lower generic shelves of the grocery store, then to the back of the fridge, and how he wants to “go” when it’s his time. Tami and Ed, a sharpie and her cap, talk about hard trials within their intimate relationship, and about their work together. There’s a tooth, a wallet, a stethoscope, and many more objects, each with their own personality and point of view. It’s a surprisingly funny and charming series.
Today is Comics day, and your challenge is to draw a comic with inanimate objects only. Choose something around you. Something like a chair, a spoon, or a sock. Take on its perspective, and ask it what it would like to say about itself or its life.
I found this blog post by Chaz Hutton on How to Draw Comics When You Can’t Actually Draw. I love this post. Check it out. You might find it inspiring, as well as entertaining. Here’s a piece:
So, you can’t draw and you’re not funny, but you want to draw comics.
Well, great news: You don’t have to be able to draw, nor be particularly funny in order to draw comics. (…) Here’s the thing about art: Provided your drawings are all consistently the same level of coherency, then whatever you’re creating will become your style, which means all your drawings are amazing, provided they’re viewed within the context of your style.
Though Chaz doesn’t really call it out, Jeff the Blob uses repetition to build up on his funny. When you draw your inanimate’s story, not every frame has to be entirely original. Repeats, small changes, and space for silence (deep thinking) can have a positive impact.
Post it
Post your work to social media with the tags #30sal & #seattleartistleague. To find more followers for your page, you can cut/paste these tags and add them to your post:
[image_with_animation image_url=”9399″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Francis Bacon’s studio Where do you make art? I find looking at artist’s spaces just as interesting as looking at the artwork made there. In part, what I’m looking at when I look at art spaces is how people adapt their space to suit their needs (how the studio …
Finally! I’m posting the 30SAL Finalists for January 2022! Over 4,000 30SAL Artworks posted to Padlet and Instagram In January, artists all over the globe sketched, inked, sculpted, collaged, and animated their way through our 30 Day Creative Challenge. Challenges exercised a wide array of artistic skills, including observation, composition, sequence, see & respond, vocabulary, …
The Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn created nearly one hundred self portraits during his 63 years of life. Roughly 40 of these self portraits were oil paintings. The rest were drawings and etchings. This was, and is, a fairly unusual number of self portraits for an artist without a smartphone. He might have made self portraits to practice rendering …
[image_with_animation image_url=”11565″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Her work looks to me like a modern Morandi. The composition is static, the colors are either quiet or repetitive and controlled, the objects are worn and common. The minimalist arrangements present the objects as flat abstracted forms. Notice the soft edges and surface detail. This painting is sitting …
30SAL Challenge: Interview an Object
Have you heard the podcast “Everything is Alive“? In each episode of this unscripted interview series, inanimate objects share their perspectives, and tell us their life story. Louis, a can of cola, talks about his start at the lower generic shelves of the grocery store, then to the back of the fridge, and how he wants to “go” when it’s his time. Tami and Ed, a sharpie and her cap, talk about hard trials within their intimate relationship, and about their work together. There’s a tooth, a wallet, a stethoscope, and many more objects, each with their own personality and point of view. It’s a surprisingly funny and charming series.
Today is Comics day, and your challenge is to draw a comic with inanimate objects only. Choose something around you. Something like a chair, a spoon, or a sock. Take on its perspective, and ask it what it would like to say about itself or its life.
I found this blog post by Chaz Hutton on How to Draw Comics When You Can’t Actually Draw. I love this post. Check it out. You might find it inspiring, as well as entertaining. Here’s a piece:
So, you can’t draw and you’re not funny, but you want to draw comics.
Well, great news: You don’t have to be able to draw, nor be particularly funny in order to draw comics. (…) Here’s the thing about art: Provided your drawings are all consistently the same level of coherency, then whatever you’re creating will become your style, which means all your drawings are amazing, provided they’re viewed within the context of your style.
Source: Chaz Hutton on Medium.com
Though Chaz doesn’t really call it out, Jeff the Blob uses repetition to build up on his funny. When you draw your inanimate’s story, not every frame has to be entirely original. Repeats, small changes, and space for silence (deep thinking) can have a positive impact.
Post it
Post your work to social media with the tags #30sal & #seattleartistleague. To find more followers for your page, you can cut/paste these tags and add them to your post:
#30sal #seattleartistleague #drawingchallenge #drawing #art #illustration
#sketch #artchallenge #drawings #artist #draw #artistsoninstagram
#sketchbook #instaart #drawthisinyourstyle #artwork #drawingoftheday
#dailydrawing #inkdrawing #drawingsketch #artoftheday #myart
#pencildrawing #drawthisinyourstylechallenge #creativity
#creativechallenge #comic #instachaaz #everythingisalive
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