Yay! Sketch Jam! I actually put this on the fan event schedule, right after Iron Illustrator and before the banquet on Saturday evening. Given that the area is rife with coffee bars, finding a location for such a thing shouldn't be too hard.
So yes, I am completely okay with this idea. :D
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Yay! Sketch Jam! I actually put this on the fan event schedule, right after Iron Illustrator and before the banquet on Saturday evening. Given that the area is rife with coffee bars, finding a location for such a thing shouldn't be too hard.
So yes, I am completely okay with this idea. :D
Being the Seattlite here, I suppose I should do my duty and find an appropriate coffee bar. I shall not rest until I have tried every coffee offered within a 10 block radius of the hotel!
Being the Seattlite here, I suppose I should do my duty and find an appropriate coffee bar. I shall not rest until I have tried every coffee offered within a 10 block radius of the hotel!
So let it be written, so let it be done! :D
I wouldn't mind watching myself getting p-wned at a sketch jam in a coffee house. : ) Just as long as I don't have to resort to using napkins as a medium I may be able to last one round.
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I wouldn't mind watching myself getting p-wned at a sketch jam in a coffee house. : ) Just as long as I don't have to resort to using napkins as a medium I may be able to last one round.
They aren't really competitive. What usually happens is that someone tosses out a subject idea, and then everyone gets twenty or thirty minutes to draw, and then we share. Lather, rinse, repeat. It's usually a lot of fun, because you get to see how other artists think and work.
Yay! May I join?!?! I picture this: a coffee table with 6-8 people sitting all quiet head down into a sketchpad...no talking at all :P
Now I'm even more sad I won't be there :(
Oh well. Maybe next year.
I'd get in on this (mainly to mooch cute artist fangirls from you talented people), but only if you promise not to mock my "art." :p
I'd get in on this (mainly to mooch cute artist fangirls from you talented people), but only if you promise not to mock my "art." :p
LOL!
I'd get in on this (mainly to mooch cute artist fangirls from you talented people), but only if you promise not to mock my "art." :p
Hey! there is already a guy stalking the fangirls!.... Well, I guess two guys is as good as one... you are welcome to join! :D
Hey! there is already a guy stalking the fangirls!.... Well, I guess two guys is as good as one... you are welcome to join! :DBut he's allowed to stalk the fangirls, Hugo. Sean's an integral part of what we obsess about :)
True! Then I might stalk him as well... mwahahaha!
*goes to write SKR into evil plot*
I was thinking un putting on a Seelah outfit...already got it... but I think I can do a Seoni... My manboobs are nice enough...
*turns green with envy*
are you a fangirl too Jack? :P
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I am totally down with this. Though I don't drink much coffee. 'Sides, excessive caffeine gives me the jitters, so everything I drew after a cuppa would look like I scribbled it on horseback.
I'd ogle fangirls too, but I think my girlfriend would hurt me. So I guess I'll just ogle Hugo in his Seoni costume or something. :P
Damn, I'm gonna need to bring a sketch-pad and some pens that can withstand my artistic death-grip.
Side note: just went over to Eva Wildermann's page, and she said she'll be doing character sketches at PaizoCon. If I can get in on that, that'll be, like, heart-attack-inducingly awesome. :D
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if y'all have no qualms (with my 'artistic' skills, I'm looking at the nausea definition here ;)) about having a mere doodler in your midst, it sounds like a blast (and I know I'll be needing a hefty caffeine dose at some point).
All and sundry are welcome, so long as you're interesting in drawing and not just chatting (there's a whole convention for that). There's no experience-minimum, and I've learned just as much from people less experienced than myself as I have from more experienced people.
Damn, I'm gonna need to bring a sketch-pad and some pens that can withstand my artistic death-grip.
You know, I've actually discovered that fine-point Sharpies are just about my favorite pen for general inking. They stand up to abuse, don't run much, are waterproof, and they're dirt cheap :D
You know, I've actually discovered that fine-point Sharpies are just about my favorite pen for general inking. They stand up to abuse, don't run much, are waterproof, and they're dirt cheap :D
My only problem with Sharpies is that they tend to bleed a lot on the paper I usually end up using. I wonder if you used marker paper the problem would be less. *ponders* Worth testing out, I have a pad of said paper at home.
You know, I've actually discovered that fine-point Sharpies are just about my favorite pen for general inking. They stand up to abuse, don't run much, are waterproof, and they're dirt cheap :DMy only problem with Sharpies is that they tend to bleed a lot on the paper I usually end up using. I wonder if you used marker paper the problem would be less. *ponders* Worth testing out, I have a pad of said paper at home.
Okay, that's not just me. I use india ink pens now since that's about all that I've found that works well with the watercolor paper.
Okay, that's not just me. I use india ink pens now since that's about all that I've found that works well with the watercolor paper.
India ink pens are great, but someday I will plunk down the quatloos for a refillable brush pen. So pretty...
Okay, that's not just me. I use india ink pens now since that's about all that I've found that works well with the watercolor paper.India ink pens are great, but someday I will plunk down the quatloos for a refillable brush pen. So pretty...
*drool*
darn it, I really need to get a job so I can afford my art habit. :)|
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India ink pens are great, but someday I will plunk down the quatloos for a refillable brush pen. So pretty...
I just can't use expensive pens. Even if I don't actually end up breaking them in my oversized, gorilla-like paws, I fear that I will, and hence never use them even when I do buy them.
A shame, too, because I really, really love the lines you get from a rapidograph
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oversized, gorilla-like paws
Hah! That makes two of us. :P
A shame, too, because I really, really love the lines you get from a rapidograph
Here's the sad part: I had a set of those once, a long time ago. It ended poorly. Hint to all potential buyers of presents for young artists: unless they show some kind of spooky prodigy-level talents, do not buy the kids the good pens yet. Buy them paper, sure, or a nifty art table or a supply box, but pens? Pens is can be expensive, and they're easily lost/broken/stolen by sentient space-weasels.
Yeah, I'll probably be rollin' Sharpie action for doodlin'. And at work, Sharpies is be free, yo. :D
Inking? wussat?...
I feel you guys on the ham-hands, and totally agree with N'wah about buying the "good stuff". Save the good stuff for when you can appreciate it, kinda like getting a junker car in high school and driving that into the dirt. Make you appreciate the stuff you get after so much more. Bristol board vs. a generic brand, sable brushes vs. a brush that falls apart after three uses, real Higgins india ink vs the watery crap that fades after one day...And so on. :P
I don't generally travel with my "nice" art utensils - those stay firmly at home, on the desk. I have my +5 Vorpal Pencil Bag of Doom, filled to the brim and able to peg a player between the eyes at 15 feet. ^_^
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... kinda like getting a junker car in high school and driving that into the dirt. Make you appreciate the stuff you get after so much more.
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I remember my car from high school. We were the same age! A 1972 Ford LTD. The hood went on for 6 miles, if I remeber correctly. Bits occasionally fell off at random. I still kinda miss it.[/end threadjack]
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I remember my car from high school. We were the same age! A 1972 Ford LTD. The hood went on for 6 miles, if I remeber correctly. Bits occasionally fell off at random. I still kinda miss it.
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My '83 Toyota Camry liked to vibrate itself out of third gear, and the windshield wipers were shorted into a permanent "on" position. I had to take the fuse in and out to operate it. The muffler had rusted off and it sounded like a tank and my brakes failed me at one point.
And yet, I miss that thing. :P
I think a fine project for your Sketch-Jam 09 would be to design a Dark & Stormy Knight logo for the Jack Cult. *beg, beg, whine, whine...* Golems need luv too...
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1973 Renault Le Car ... ran like a go cart. But it was front wheel drive and had the best suspension of any car I have ever driven.
If y'all see me at the Con, you'll probably wonder how I ever got into that thing.
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As far as mediums go, I've always been more partial to pencil than ink. Maybe tied to being able to erase the pencil ...
An idea:
It would be great if we all get a letter-size sheet and make a small sketch and pass it around to the other artists at the coffee/bar/taver/dungeon where we sit and do this sketch jam, so that we all end up with a nice sheet filled with several artist sketches and maybe add a "wish you well" comment or "I hate your guts" if that fits more properly :D
An idea:
It would be great if we all get a letter-size sheet and make a small sketch and pass it around to the other artists at the coffee/bar/taver/dungeon where we sit and do this sketch jam, so that we all end up with a nice sheet filled with several artist sketches and maybe add a "wish you well" comment or "I hate your guts" if that fits more properly :D
Kinda like a memento to take back home with us? :D
Kinda like a memento to take back home with us? :D
Exactly! I'm a sucker for mementos :P
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By the way. Those who love sharpies but don't like the ink going to other pages, the japanese made the undersheet for that reason. They're cheap, usually, and if you happen to like japanese TV, you can find it with images, if not, just random stuff for your Shi+ajiki.
EDIT: Deleted the URL, code hates me.
EDIT EDIT: The word is spelled SH aye(I) TAJIKI
By the way. Those who love sharpies but don't like the ink going to other pages, the japanese made the undersheet for that reason. They're cheap, usually, and if you happen to like japanese TV, you can find it with images, if not, just random stuff for your Shi+ajiki.
EDIT: Deleted the URL, code hates me.
EDIT EDIT: The word is spelled SH aye(I) TAJIKI
Ah, those are called pencil boards here in the US.
I had an awesome idea for a Sketch Jam...
Howzabout we all create a special PaizoCon II Paper Mini Set at the Jam? Each of us draws up one original critter or character (or we roll for it). Ideas for the mini set:
A fearsome minotaur, a beer stein in hand.
An ocularly challenged wizard holding tomes of planetary lore.
A bard rockin' on a gitar
For starters...or we can draw our Pathfinderized selves. :P
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I had an awesome idea for a Sketch Jam...
Howzabout we all create a special PaizoCon II Paper Mini Set at the Jam? Each of us draws up one original critter or character (or we roll for it). Ideas for the mini set:
A fearsome minotaur, a beer stein in hand.
An ocularly challenged wizard holding tomes of planetary lore.
A bard rockin' on a gitarFor starters...or we can draw our Pathfinderized selves. :P
I love the minis idea. Or the "Pathfinderized Us" thing. Or I just love the idea of drawing with you guys. :D
Before I forget: when exactly will this thing be going down? I know Immora's scouting locations, so "where" isn't set yet, but I have pretty much no idea when anything's happening at (or around, or after) PaizoCon.
I suppose we can make arrangements at the Con, but I hope we can arrange it when we can all attend...I signed up to be Joshua's bit... GM for PFS Scenarios...
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I love the idea of a PaizoCon minis sheet, and I also love the idea of passing around a little letter-sized sheet to write little scribbles on. I look forward to telling both Hugo and Liz how much I hate them in an anonymous form :D
I suppose I should get off my lazy butt and start scouting out locations around the hotel that can handle upwards of a dozen people. This is turning out to be a lot more popular than I thought.