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Ask anyone who illustrates or does hand drawn sketches, the hardest part of the human body to draw is the hand, well at least for me it is one of the most difficult. It took me some time to learn the basics. After you have learned the basics, the next step is to draw the hand in action. However, first, we need to define what freehand drawing means.
What is Freehand Drawing? The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc… A Freehand drawing is simply a drawing done by hand without the use of tools or aids such as templates, stencils or tracing.
I love how the artist of the pictures below have rendered their respective art works. The subject was a plain hand, but with their pencil strokes, they allow each drawing to come alive. It’s very inspiring!
Sometimes a day ends up being one big blur when you spend a lot of time on Twitter or any other Social Networking site. Your eyes get sore and you try to stay focused by moving closer and closer to the screen as if things will become crystal clear the closer you get. It’s a common behavior for all of us and there is little we can do to change it. Well, of course we could all just turn off our computers and go and read a book… but come on, why would you want to do that when you have all the information right in front of you, right?
For the times when you step away from your computer, even though it may only be for a few hours to get some sleep, it can be nice to have somewhere to hang your online suit until you wake up again. That’s when the über cool 8bit mouse pointer hand is a perfect interior design feature.
It will make sure that when you eventually wake up again, you definitely know the way to where your computer is. Almost as if you have done something bad and you’re being told to shape up and go and do your work, it points a finger right at you. It’s a true motivator, and a “you’ve done bad” reminder may be all you need to get your tired butt out of bed, drag it to the hanger where you have your online suit and then slowly push your heals in the direction of the computer… Just like the 8bit mouse pointer is telling you to do!
You can buy this über geek interior design item at Meninos for just $19.99. If you ask me, it’s a cheap little trick to give yourself a good reminder of what you have to do in the morning.
Everything started in 2007, in Sidney, Australia: 2.2 million people switched off their lights for one hour to send out a simple message: That they cared and were concerned about climate change. In 2008, 50 million people around the world switched off their lights and, in 2009 an estimated 1 billion people joined this cause that sends out a strong message across the globe.
Earth Hour is back this next Saturday starting at 8:30pm your local time. This is an opportunity to make a real difference, to send out a strong message, and to enjoy one hour, or more, with yourself or surrounded by friends and family. Turn off that computer and don’t worry about whether or not you are getting a thousand RTs or mentions on Twitter, the Internet will stay on, don’t worry.
Let’s show those in power that we care, and that we want a change. By switching off the lights next Saturday, we will all be contributing to help ensure the planet doesn’t switch off on us for good.
It’s that time of year again. All the supermarkets in the States are stocked with pastel colored marshmallow bunnies and chicks. Most people call these “peeps” and whether they end up in someone’s Easter basket or in someone’s desk for snacking; they always seem to be very popular. They’ve been brightening springtime for over a half century.
These have always been very special in our family since my mother looks forward to eating these every year. They are her favorite candy. I usually buy several packages and send them to her just to make sure she has extras around her house.
To celebrate the short amount of time when these peeps are available, I wanted to share with you some peep artwork. Every year The Washington Post hosts a contest to see who can create the most artistic peep scene. This artwork showcases the creativity of hundreds of people inspired by these peeps. I’ve chosen some of the entries from past years to show you below. You can view a slideshow with more of the collection here: http://www.washingtonpost.com Happy Spring!
For me, package design is an important element when it comes to marketing products. With so many products on the market, one thing that helps a brand get noticed is its package, of course, this is especially true for newer brands. Known brands, especially the ones that have established themselves, usually remain true to their design and when they do make changes, it usually includes an upgrade or an innovation that is attached to their campaign.
There are so many bottles that you see on the supermarket shelves, in convenience stores and even in bars. The majority of the beverages that we drink are packaged in bottles. This even includes condiments like ketchup, soy sauce, etc…
The ones that I chose for this post are wonderful examples of a designer’s creativity at work. You will notice the designs highlighted have different elements on the bottles. One emphasizes on the label and another emphasizes the shape of the bottle itself. You’ll see the fun elements added to the designs making them very interesting and truly eye catching. One thing they have in common is their eye for detail and beauty.
When working with something creative like drawing, designing, doodling or writing, it’s important to have good lighting where you are seated. There are several rules and guides for how to set up efficient lighting that will not cause you to pay extra attention to things around you or strain your eyes just because you can’t see what the heck you are doing because it’s too dark. For example, if you have a monitor in front of you, it’s a good idea to put a light source behind the monitor to take away attention from the monitors lighting. Why? Well, they say it is because the eye then doesn’t have to take in all it’s light from the light source directly in front you, which will cause the eye to feel strained and overworked.
However, what if you can’t even find the light switches? Or, if you don’t even know which button is for what lamp? It’s a horrifying experience and can cause quite a traumatic time if you happen to push the wrong button and the wrong lamp is turned on. Yeah I know, wouldn’t that just be terrible!
Designers Heo Jaesik and Lim Hojoont certainly thought so when they started designing this quite elaborate light switch. If installed, it’s definitely an upgrade from the old, boring and pesky button switches that usually come with the apartment and house you happen to move in to. Those days are over and you can now geekify your crib and make it one big replica a’la Star Trek with a huge light switch board showing exactly where and what lamp you pushed, what lamp is on and not etc… If you ask me, it’s just a big geekification of something that should have been invented eons ago. I like it! Where do I sign up? Or do you need a voice activated login first…?
This article has my name listed as the author, but really, the smart and savvy @CTK1 is responsible for all this fabulousness. In her own words, she is known as the Queen of Ball Busting on Twitter, but I like to think of her as a delicate flower, a Twitter princess. 
On the eve of Twitter’s 4th Birthday, as we were all reminiscing about what Twitter means to us, @CTK1 had one of her great ideas. We got together and asked some of our friends to momentarily consider a website’s worst moment, its demise.
Can you imagine life with no Twitter? Wouldn’t it be strange? After all, what would we spend all day doing? I can’t even remember my life before Twitter.
What will happen on that dark internet day when Twitter ceases to exist, leaving a gaping hole in cyberspace? Luckily it hasn’t happened, but we wanted to know amidst the terrific birthday cheer, “If Twitter died today, what would be its 140 character Obituary?”
Each of the tweeters below mourned in their own way.
How would you write Twitter’s obituary?
@mayhemstudios from Los Angeles, California
“Hello? Anyone there? lol”
@andysowards from Lynchburg, Virginia
“Twitter found dead, overdose of RT’s & DM Spam. Memorial will b held today @ 1:40PM. In other news, Facebook Traffic Breaks records!”
@fjfonseca from Out of this world
“Here lies Twitter, a blue bird that never could relate with whales. Going out to sea was not a bright idea.”
@karenquah from Here, there and everywhere
“Twitter was a great listener. Not out of choice. But because everyone else would not shut up. Thus she died in silence. With lots of noise.”
@sadknob from Los Angeles, California
“We’re sad to see Twitter go, but it opens a new door for our replacement: “BigFuck” a new and exciting site you can join now for only $29.50.”
@unmarketing from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
“Never has so little been said in so few characters while butchering grammar and spelling at the same time. RIP kthxbye”
@techzader from Flatwoods, West Virginia
“Welcome Tweeps. 2day we mourn over our beloved Twitter. Twitterholics all around R reeling. It’s survived by Facebook & sadly, MySpace. 
“
@Minervity from Stockholm, Sweden
“Even death can’t be unfollowed. But Twitter, why did you have to unfollow life itself? You will always be remembered in search!”
@DavidWeedmark from Ottawa, Canada
“It’s not twitter I mourn, but my friends. My beautiful passing friends whose emails I put off asking for, and blogs I neglected to bookmark.”
@DKKipp from St. Louis, Missouri
“Adieu Twitter—Int’l friend connector 2 millions, info king 2 most, twitterholic enabler 2 many, misjudged by some. Lil blue will be missed.”
@AskAaronLee from Malaysia
“Twitter will be remembered for many things, one of which will be the way you allowed me to engage with thousands of people around the world.”
@loripop326 from Canada
“O, @twitter… how i loved U. ur wisdom, ur humour, ur block feature. 1 thing b4 u go… does speakng twttr count as bi-lingual on a resume?”
@bortflancrest from Melbourne
“RIP Twitter – You enabled me to show thousands of people what a complete wanker I am, in little bitesize chunks of idiocy. Miss you.”
@DavidSpinks from New York
“After one too many fail whales, twitter has died. It is remembered by the millions of experts, gurus, and ninjas who are now homeless.”
@bkmacdaddy from Tallahassee, Florida
“Lived fast. Died young but on top. Millions attended funeral in hopes of selling an eBook to other attendees. A few wept, others Buzzed.”
@adamsconsulting from Atlanta, Georgia
“Twitter put up a good fight, but was no match for the fail whale. Tweeple around the world try to cope by overdosing on LOLs, smileys & #s.”
@CTK1 from Culver City
“Insanities, inanities &useful flame wars aided my procrastination for years. Plus, now I know everything via a ‘Top 10: How To’ format #Ciao”
@axleuk from Bridgend, South Wales
“Twttr is gone it has 2 B said, It happened so quick, still shakin my head so w/ that in mind, try not whine & jump ovr 2 try f/book instead.”
@arjunbasu from Montreal
“Suddenly, or perhaps not so suddenly, last night while millions watched Lost, Twitter died. Now no one will know what you had for breakfast.”
@jeffersonreid from Culver City
“Farewell, parting is such tweet sorrow. Twitter reminded us sometimes less is more, but it can also be just plain moronic. WTF lol #RIP”
@shellykramer from Kansas City, Missouri
“A great friend, leading to many more great friends, plentiful laughs, much info & prof’l growth. You will be missed, but quickly replaced.”
@Sung_H_Lee from Los Angeles, California
“You introduced me to a new world of @, #, via, RT and XOXO. But I’ll always be grateful to you for introducing me to wonderful new friends.”
@terrinakamura from Seattle
“Twitter died, leaving millions of bereaved loved ones to mourn its loss. Social medial will never be the same. Services to be live streamed.”
@krystynchong from Northern California
“Good-bye Twitter. I wonder what Justin Bieber will do?”
@clementyeung from United Kingdom
“Twitter helped bring us closer 2 any version of a Utopia I may have had by breaking down social barriers & giving airtime 2 the average Joe.”
@T1theinfamous from Detroit
“Twitter has brought so much happiness to my life and has helped me tremendously and I want to express my feelings for it but i need more…”
@rMiL5 from Indonesia
“It was a tweet, retweet and fail whale… will tweet from hell.”
@cheth from Manipal, India
“Twitter is down really!? Oh wait I could buy it! Oh damn! okay can we build a twitter 2.0? It used to be personal newspaper! Oh Dear!”
@clarko from Vancouver, BC
“My greatest concern is that my work here will be remembered most for its easily-correfted spelling errors.”
@modelsupplies from Detroit
“Twitter was a playground as much as a boardroom. Creativity & friendship thrived. #TT RIP #Twitter You will be missed!”
@paul_steele from United Kingdom
“Twitter – The meeting of great people, the sharing of knowledge, the smiling with the whole world, The LOLs created, we will not forget you!”
@theuserpool from Los Angeles, California
“Twitter is dead and it’s my fault. I sodomized her to death.”
@raybeckerman from New York
“Twitter, a social media firestorm, died because it took the “social” out of “social media,” putting profits before people.”
@hennartonline from Venice, California
“WHEN TWITTER DIED, MY HEART STOPPED BEATING ON ITS 140TH BEAT!”
Twitter is such a great platform to meet and interact with people online, and get feedback real time. The beauty of Twitter is that people follow each other, converse and share information, 140 character at a time. When I was new on Twitter, people were more into sharing information and conversing. People followed other people because of the benefits of learning from them. However, over the past year, people seem to be so obsessed with the number of followers that they have and things have changed. Some people treat Twitter as a popularity contest. Others treat twitter as an instant messaging service and they expect you to respond to everything at once. Others worry when people unfollow them.
I must admit, when I was new on Twitter, I did get affected a lot when people unfollowed me. I took it personally. I would always ask myself the questions, “Did I tweet something wrong? Did I offend anyone?” However, as I tweeted more and time passed, I realized that people unfollow for different reasons.
People may unfollow you for several reasons:
1. The information you send might not be what they are looking for.
2. They follow a small number of people while you follow a lot and converse a lot, so you probably flood their stream.
3. You did not follow back right away.
4. You send out links rather than just converse.
5. There was a glitch in the system.
6. You never update your stream.
7. You converse a lot.
There are a lot of reasons and often we will never really know the real reason why. Now, back to the original question: What do you do when you get unfollowed on Twiter? My answer is smile and do nothing. Don’t take it personally, especially if you know that you have been sharing good content, you converse and engage when you can, and you do no harm to others. Be yourself and just continue tweeting. If you feel that you need to unfollow them, its up to you! I rarely unfollow people that I learn from even if they don’t follow me back, but to each his own.
I never thought I would say this but for this occasion I think I have to. I never want to wash my car again after seeing what I am about to show you. That dirt and dust that your car whips up while you drive to work, to the grocery store, to the daycare…you name it, could potentially become impressive pieces of artwork right there on your car. At least if you happen to know Scott Wade. Where this man got inspiration to start doodling on his cars is beyond me. And maybe calling it “doodling” would be to underestimate his efforts by a light year or two.
Scott doesn’t just show his potential Leonardo da Vinci gene, he makes dirt on a car become cool and something that I think we all want. When everyone goes on about having to wash their car every week or so, Scott actually drives back and forth on a dirt road making his cars as dirty as possible by purpose. Nah, not really actually. He has come up with a much faster way of making his cars dusty and dirty and it involves some kind of oil and a certain kind of dust that is blown by a hairdryer over the soaked car windows. How it works? It beats me and I am not even going to speculate how he came up with it.
How long it takes to complete each piece of his amazing artwork is somewhere around a couple of days. He uses primarily his fingers and finger nails to create the core lines and to accentuate the depth of the lines. Furthermore, he uses an air brush to create the 3D depth of the shadows and textures.
It must be a joy to drive around in Scott Wade’s cars as you will always know that there will never be someone with the same dust art on the rear window as you have going on. All I can say is that Scott is one heck of an artist and deserves huge props for coming up with this genuine idea. Now, where is that left over powder concrete…
All Images Copyright Wade Scott
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