I think this one would look really cool in color, but I hand colored some pages years ago and ended up not being able to use them later… I’ll wait until the scanner is not dead.
Tag: MINIon
A Year in MINIons- MINIon #1877
I really don’t know why I decided to draw a MINIon ballerina, but sometimes you’ve got to get one idea out of your head to make room for other ideas. C’mon other ideas, I’m waiting.
A Year in MINIons- MINIon #0260
“It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark… and we’re wearing sunglasses.” nuff said.
A Year in MINIons- MINIon #1959
Today was the first day of school. So I figured an apple for the teacher was appropriate. I know many of you might be saying “First Day? Isn’t it still summer?” Yes, but many schools have moved up their start dates for a bunch of different reasons. Limiting “Learning Loss” is a big reason, Adding more days before testing so kids have as many days of teaching as possible before the high stakes test. “Balancing” the calendar so there are longer breaks throughout the year, we have a week at Thanksgiving, and a week in October. Does any of this work? Research is mixed, but while it is painful right now, it is nice to not have to rush somewhere in November.
As for the drawing I am playing around with a new pen given to me by my friend Jim McClain. It handles a lot differently than what I have used in the past, but I see a lot of promise if I can just figure out how to use it, and that takes practice.
Oh, 1959? That’s the year my school building opened.
A Year in MINIons- MINIon #761.5
I figured I’d let you peek behind the curtain since the new school year starts tomorrow and I’m really tired. Today’s MINIon shows you what the original draft looks like before I ink it and color it. I use a non-photo blue pencil to draw, ink it in and scan my finished drawing in “line art” mode which takes off the blue and only deals with the black ink. so while I have been drawing these enough that my arm hurts, this is how it is done. The original can be as sloppy as I like since only the ink appears in the final. This was drawn using a normal #2 .5 mechanical pencil which I really dislike since I always break the lead. I actually use a Prismacolor Verithin pencil when drawing because they don’t break as easily as a normal Prismacolor pencil.
A Year in MINIons- MINIon #6981
Yes, It’s kinda a minifig. I was looking around my studio for inspiration and I saw my LEGO Club magazine. I know I’ve already done one MINIon based on The LEGO Movie but thought Emmett would be AWESOME.
A Year in MINIons- MINIon #1813
“Oh Bwoonhilda! You’re so wovewy!”
A Year in MINIons- MINIon #14-556
Every once in while I go a little political. Unfortunately, as a teacher in Indiana, that can be like taking your life in your hands. An early court case defined teachers as “moral exemplars” which can be hard when society has issues with what their actual morals are- which is Indiana in a nutshell.
As for today’s MINIon- I have many close friends who today’s SCOTUS decision impacted. I celebrate with you the only way I can- this monkey’s for you- congratulations! Sue, Cecil, & I love you all.
A Year in MINIons- MINIon #1820
“Call me Ookmael. Some years ago – never mind how long precisely (according to the “true story” the book was based on, let’s say around 30 years, but who’s counting?)- having little or no money in my purse, you see, I carry a wallet, it’s nice, I picked it up in Turkey to make sure it could hold other currency besides dollars, and nothing particular to interest me on shore. What do you expect? All my shows had had their season finales and there really wasn’t anything good on TV. I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world, even though I really hate water since it is so very wet. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and the appendix, and the gall bladder, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth or I get those little hairs growing in my ears; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, rather than a light a wonderful June in my heart (June is busting out all over!); whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, which I really should talk to someone about, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet… No I mean it, I’m concerned and should seek help. I quietly take to the ship, because have you seen what psychiatric help costs?!? Definitely not a nickel like in the comic strips!”
I know there are many books that are required reading in high school. I guess I was fortunate enough to avoid many of them. Either by dodging the class (I took a class in “Biography” in which we read romance novels based in historic time periods, and my favorite “Science Fiction”) or just buckling down and trying to get through books I didn’t have the life experience to really grasp (Great Expectations & Huckleberry Finn). So I missed Moby Dick (darn) although I’ve seen a few film adaptations and read Jeff Smith’s Bone It’s something I probably should add to my bucket list or at least try to listen to it on a long trip. Moby Dick was based on tales told about whalers and the whales that hate them. The big story was about the sinking of the Essex in 1820.
This is what happens when I ask people how the MINIon number is significant… Rigoletto was written the same year as Moby Dick! Inspiration comes from the strangest people… I mean places. 🙂
A Year in MINIons- MINIon #1974
He’s a lumberjack and he’s OK, he sleeps all night and he works all day.