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:
Another shooting. Artists, help me grieve. My job is to look. I want no subject to be taboo. If it is a face, I will look. If it is death, I will look. Looking is how I peacefully confront, learn, maintain engagement. This blog thread is how I share. The images below are fine art paintings of …
The surrealist movement was, in part, a reaction to fascism. As a student I assumed some of the surrealist art was motivated by political protest, a refusal to make sense or be pretty. Looking around today at a world I thought I understood, but now seems misshapen and horrifying, I think I understand why the …
Marcia Della Pace SAL Challenge Pics More and more and more creative challenges are getting posted online! You can find them by using the hashtags #salchallenge @seattleartistleague. I posted some of my SAL Challenge favorites for week one, my favorites for week two, and for week three. Below are my favorite discoveries for the last week, including …
Most of the time when people draw something such as a still life, they draw the objects and then neglect everything around the objects, like the table holding it up, and the wall behind it. A drawing like this shows us a thing floating in nothing instead of an interaction of depth, volume, and surfaces …
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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