Here's a little movie I whipped up for the behavior program at my school.
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Year In Review
Over all, 2011 was a good year for me. I got some graduate credit to hunker down and polish up some curriculum and make some corresponding podcasts. In May, my wife and I celebrated six years of marital bliss and a few short months later we celebrated the first birthday of our twin daughters.
Probably the biggest news for me in 2011, was finishing my Masters in Art Education and having my thesis accepted for publication in a scholarly journal. I was planning on writing my thesis on comic books in art education, and my adviser suggested that I make the thesis a comic book about comic books. There were a few articles of this type that had been published in this manner, but no one had created an entire Masters Thesis as a comic book.
It was a good year for as far as putting out mini comics, too. In April I put out Dodo Comics #1 which collected a lot of odds and ends I’d made for the last six years. Next I worked all summer on a remastered and reworked version of My Life in Records #1 and also on the second issue of Dodo Comics. On a whim a put together a little accordion book about an undersea adventure. Justin over at the Poopsheet Foundation said, “Thomas indicated that this “accordion” folded gem is free with any order from him, and I’ll tell you it’s worth ordering something else just to get your hands on this.”
So four minis in a year. Not bad for a guy with two kids wrapping up a degree!
Work in Progress – Neck Beard
I’m pretty sure this is my first attempt at drawing a character with a neck-beard.
Here we see Agatho putting a stone in his mouth to remind him to keep quiet. My guess is that he put a pebble in his mouth, but since comics are a visual medium, I changed the pebble into a brick-like rock. It’s funnier to look at and also gives a nod to George Herriman’s Krazy Kat strips.
Is Something Missing?
Sometimes I use a digital version of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies to help with writer’s block. To me, they’re kind of like secular Tarot Cards.
In this particular story, they worked themselves in as a plot element. I’m hoping it makes it into this spring’s Dodo Comics #3.
Outsider Artist of the Week – 12-26-11
Sketches of Interiors
I really stink at drawing interiors, so I got a decorating book out from the library and made a few sketches.
Caravaggio in Profile
Another sketch of Caravaggio.
J Crew Sketches
I’ve been doing some sketches from catalogs. Here’s a few from the J Crew catalog.
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Sketch of Caravaggio
I sketched these images of Caravaggio sword fighting using screen shots from Simon Schama’s Power of Art. (Note: I no longer link to products on Amazon, because they no longer pay me to do so.)
Educational PSAs
Well, you can probably guess that I didn’t come close to getting thirty posts in thirty days for 30 Days Comics.
Part of it was burn out, part of it was Thanksgiving holiday and part of it was because I was working on some PSAs for my school. (Inspired by this lady here.)
Listen to what this eraser has to say about eraser abuse:
Eddie Eraser from Grant Thomas on Vimeo.
And here’s a screen shot of a future video I’m working on:
