Author: Shel Kahn
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Laura’s angle on iNaturalist
I’m enjoying not only posting on and browsing photos via iNaturalist, I’m also having a blast seeing how other people are getting something out of it! Laura’s been posting about it on her blog this year too – there’s a strong data-parsing angle in Laura’s blog posts, finding interesting stories as single examples or as…
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High Level Pencil Skills Videos
Sometimes you spend eight years of your life in post-secondary art training of various types, and then a further 14 years as a professional artist doing work that includes highly rendered graphite drawing, and you still open a video on youtube out of curiosity and discover a whole wealth of technical information about pencil rendering…
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Zines! Zines? Zines!
A quick collection of zines I have made, because I am trying to make more these days and it’s so nice to see a full rundown! My first zine was a collection of my webcomic, By Crom! – black and white, 28 pages including the cover, photocopied and saddle-stapled and sold at Canzine back in…
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Achievement! 1000+ Observations on iNaturalist!
In honour of taking enough photos and spending the time to categorize them and crop them and geotag them and sort them into distinct observations to have crossed the 1000 observations milestone on iNaturalist, I wanted to pick up where the Exposure Therapy for Bugs post I wrote left off: photographing animals and plants and…
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Soft Pastels are Back in Town
That’s right, chalky, powdery, gloriously colourful soft pastels! Not to be confused with oil pastels, which I have been hyperfocusing on for a year or so. So, like, years and years and years and years ago I did work in soft pastels a little – I was studying fine art painting and I didn’t have…
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Murderous Mermaid Thoughts
Spent some time in my sketchbook thinking about all the amazing and kind of horrifying ways sea creatures have arranged their mouths, and seeing what I can combine with mermaid ideas and to what effect. (click on the images to see larger, crisper versions of them) I was inspired by this sketch of mine from…
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I’m back at my freelancing desk!
So it’s been a big year of launches and adventures and news and updates and all the rest, but I am now sitting down to plan out the fall and winter, and I’ll be looking to take on some new jobs! I’ve spruced up the portfolio section of my site and sorted it into a…
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