"Science Fiction Anthology" Coloring Book - 2 of 2!

The final half of this odd, strangely intriguing coloring book from when I was a lad.

As Chris pointed out in yesterday's comments: SPOILER ALERT! LOTS of sci-fi twist endings blown herein!

And as Lysdexicuss pointed out...a coloring book "for the ADVANCED crayon wielder only!

The comment section is my favorite part of this blog...keep 'em coming kiddoes.

Now get to coloring...and remember...staying inside the lines is over-rated, just like in life.

Talk to you soon!

"Science Fiction Anthology" Coloring Book - 1 of 2

Stuck in the midst of all those drawing "how to" books I've been posting for the last few weeks, was this curious little item I've been toting around wince I was about 11 or 12.

I don't think I even fully grasped that it was a coloring book until much, much later.  I thought it was just the cliff notes of cliff notes of famous science fiction stories...but that's what it is...a coloring book.

I gained my awareness of some of these stories from this book, and would stare for a bit at the strangely slick yet satisfying in their unfamiliarity drawings.

It somehow got mixed in with those "how to" books in my library, I think just because it's over sized, and there was no other real category to Dewey Decimal this dooflicky into.

At any rate...these were scanned as color files, so if'n ya wants to, you can pull these into Photoshop and color them.

I thought it would make for a nice breezy Friday/Saturday pair of postings.

Talk to you soon.

"The Art of Drawing Heads and Hands" 2 of 2!

More art instruction from The Grumbacker Library's "The Art of Drawing Heads and Hands".

In the past few weeks I've posted scans of different art instruction books from the stacks of books I've carried around for decades.  I don't believe I ever sat and practiced what's in them or tried to learn their techniques...instead I studied the work of artists and cartoonists I admired from comic books, comic strips and animated cartoons when practicing my drawing...but these books made me conscious of the fact that there were people who worked at this.  That this was a skill worth emulating and perfecting.  

The fact that relatives and family friends who didn't have the first inkling of knowing how to draw, gave me some of these books as gifts because they saw something in me, that while they may not have understood the need to do this, saw that it was a worthwhile thing.  And they wanted to help me.  Gruff old men who worked with their hands and died from overwork and maternal women who cooked utilitarian meals and darned socks and vacuumed and re-vacuumed and re-vacuumed and RE-vacuumed the same 20 square feet of rug for years because, well because it was what they did, bought these for me because they admired it too.

I think I saw that thing in the pages of these books, as much as I ever saw a technical instruction manual.  

And that's what they taught me.

Talk to you soon.

"The Art of Drawing Heads and Hands" 1 of 2!

Next up from my short stack of art instruction books is another from The Grumbacher Library.  It's "The Art of Drawing Heads and Hands". 

Some really nice facial things here.  I always admired the texturing in this book.

I have always been pulled toward cartooning over realism, but you know the old axiom...you have to know how to do something the correct way before you can lampoon it.  This is good food for the eyes.

Dig in!

Talk to you soon!

"Movie...Ads!" - Wally Wood - Mad Monday!

As Jack Davis did with Harvey Kurtzman in the last issue of "Mad" (THE COMIC BOOK), issue #14 from August 1954 has Wally Wood helping Kurtzman take on the movies and the convention of the time.

If you haven't heard me say it before, you must not be listening so I'll say it again...Wood is good!!

Feast yer eyes, kiddoes!

Talk to you soon.