Art Monday: Trilobite Boy head sketches

A few quick warm-up sketches this morning, trying to nail down some of Trilobite Boy's anatomy.  Done using ArtRage and my tablet. A couple of times I almost reached for the monitor to smudge the shadows.

Toying with the idea maybe half of his fossil-y face is riddled with cracks. I'm also trying to avoid having the pointy head-shield look like ears.

Maybe I need to sculpt some clay over top of one of my artist mannequins to nail this down further.

Listening to Moby, Covenant and Goldfrapp.

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Science-Art Scumble

Scumble:

1. To soften the colors or outlines of (a painting or drawing) by covering with a film of opaque or semiopaque color or by rubbing.

2. To blur the outlines of: a writer who scumbled the line that divides history and fiction.

(From The Free Dictionary)

Several weeks ago after a Twitter discussion with Bora Zivkovic, I created the Science-Artists Feed which is also carried on ScienceBlogging.com.    It's proven to be relatively popular, and to date, there's over 60 blogs represented in the feed. So I thought I would create a kind of weekly digest to highlight some of the posts I found most interesting, most provocative, or otherwise caught my eye.  And because I come from a narcissistic Fine Artist background, I'll probably throw some of my own in the mix too.

This first one may reach a little further back than a week.  The feed is full of fascinating science-art and illustration.  Please feel free to suggest some I may have missed or did not highlight. As well, you might suggest some in the comments below.

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Gustave Klimt's mysterious embryos by Amy Maxmen, CultureLab.

Epic Art Science Exhibit and Exploration, SaCrIt.

Pink Dinosaur #200! at Art Evolved.  This charity drive for breast cancer research has professionals and amateurs alike sending in art with Pink Dinosaurs.  The 200th one, and it's still going!

Using Engineering Principles to Reconstruct Leaf Shape by Marlene Hill Donnelly, GNSI.

(no title: about Mylodon and modern sloths), An Eye for Science.

Mushroom Festival: the final art, Katura's Sketch-blog.

Sidney Nolan's stunning Antarctic paintings at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, by Richard Moss, Culture 24

American Waters by Alex Kirkbride, Joris Van Alphen

Fish Fleet, Gurney Journey.  (A whole different kind of flying trilobite!)

Ent-o-Lantern 2010 Part 2, Biodiversity in Focus.  This isn't the LOTR one that made the blog rounds; it's as in entomology.

vLog from the past! , The Tyrannosaur Chronicles.  Finally we hear Traumador's voice!  Kid-friendly.

Now online: In Defense of Space Art: The Role of the Artist in Space Exploration, Roger Malina

Color Vision & Art, lines and colors.

Vintage Dinosaur Art: The Gishosaurs, Love in the Time of the Chasmosaurs - they breathe fire!

"I aten't dead" Pink Dinosaur #164, by Trish Arnold, Art Evolved.  Addressing the media's "oh noes, triceratops never existed" nonsense.  Trish's delightful blog is here.

Stained beauty, naked neurons: visualizing the brain through history, Bioephemera.

Anatomic Fashion Friday: The Donor, Street Anatomy.

Finally, I touched a nerve with this:
Why don't more science bloggers cite their images? , The Flying Trilobite
A Diplodocus-sized Pet Peeve, Love in the time of the Chasmosaurs
Glimpse at image credits on science blogs, The Flying Trilobite
And I thank all the commenters on the blogs and Twitter for their support.

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Trilobite Baby onesie!

Available in my shop as adult shirts, kid's shirts, baby onesies and as a sticker. I wanted to make this image for the baby we're expecting in December next month, and now it's available to everyone.

You can pick the colour of your shirt too.

*Until November 14th, there's a 15% off coupon: flying_trilobite_is_on_sale_7886 .

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Coupon of earthly delights

My print shop, hosted by RedBubble is having a sale!  

But only if you use my super-secret coupon. If you purchase anything from my online store between now and November 14th 2010, you'll receive 15% off.  

Scroll down to get the coupon code!  

Stickers

T-shirts, hoodies, and kids clothes

Greeting cards

Laminated prints

Framed artwork

Calendar collections
Great way to get a dozen of my high-quality prints at an excellent price.

The super-secret coupon code:
flyingtrilobite_is_on_sale_7886

Now until November 14th everything is on sale!  The Flying Trilobite Print Shop.

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MOOOO! My business cards arrived!

My business cards arrived yesterday!

I ordered these from MOO.  They're the recycled paper option, and I'm thrilled about the quality.  As you can see above, there's 4 different backs, each with a QR code that goes to glendonmellow.com. It's the little things that made this nifty.  For example, they already pre-mixed the cards, so I can pick up a random handful.

Even though I went to university to study as a fine artist, there's a very telling way I began to know that my future would lie mainly in illustration:  I loveloveLOVE seeing my artwork in different media.  Different textured papers, rough, smooth, glossy, I love seeing my art online, and on calendars and shirts.  It's exciting and narcissistic and awesome.
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