Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Artist Card Fever

Posted on June 27, 2011 by doodlehoose

This week is a sketch card extravaganza. I’ve been seeing sketch cards for a while now, but I wasn’t quite sure what they were. I recently became aware of two different kinds of sketch cards. There are original artists trading … Continue reading →

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You’re only as good as your reference

Posted on June 20, 2011 by doodlehoose

During one of my classes at the Art Institute of Philadelphia the professor said, “You’re only as good as your reference.” Trusting student that I was, I immediately began challenging the statement in my mind. I had seen many fellow … Continue reading →

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A post by any other name

Posted on June 13, 2011 by doodlehoose

Today’s post is brought to you by Cracked Magazine, but not really. One of my friends is both an avid fan of Cracked and the wiki world community (he likes to write encyclopedias). He commissioned me to create a drawing … Continue reading →

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Mjolnir- for those hard to reach places

Posted on June 6, 2011 by doodlehoose

Some times you just have to go back to go forward. Thor has been in the news a lot recently and though I dabbled with the Marvel title during my teen years, it was really the original mythology that captured … Continue reading →

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More than you can chew…

Posted on May 30, 2011 by doodlehoose

This week’s post is a visual of the age old saying, “don’t bite off more than you can chew.” I wanted to do a drawing of the cast from the show Community in their first season Halloween costumes. My plan … Continue reading →

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Tools of the trade

Posted on May 16, 2011 by doodlehoose

Marker week continues into marker two weeks (if only it were that simple to expand shark week) with this still life from my desk. The nice thing about markers, and colored pencils is that I can grab them and take … Continue reading →

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Render unto Markers

Posted on May 9, 2011 by doodlehoose

Last week I started playing with my markers and highlighters again. It has been fun and Friday I started a practice of doing a drawing in the morning before work. All the renderings this week were drawn first with a … Continue reading →

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A Cephalopod by any other name

Posted on May 2, 2011 by doodlehoose

Today’s artwork is not what I had planned to show you originally (you may see that later), but it suits this blog well because it started out as a doodle. I was trying to draw a more realistic octopus that … Continue reading →

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Go, Ready, Set

Posted on April 25, 2011 by doodlehoose

Today’s post is about an artist that has been very inspirational to me- Doug TenNapel. Several years ago I found a book called Creature Tech at the Library. The cover caught my eye and the low risk of the library … Continue reading →

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And now for something completely different

Posted on April 18, 2011 by doodlehoose

Today’s blog is different in two significant ways- 1. The artwork was not created digitally and 2. It’s not about something fun. Anyone who knows me personally knows that I am a Christian and that part of me plays a … Continue reading →

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