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Happy Birthday Lisa!!!

happy birthday lisa card cartoonDaydreaming….

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I had fun with this one. Elephants and clowns and gymnasts oh my!

Thought bubbles A cartoon convention of long standing, the thought bubble shows, through words or images or both, what a character is thinking rather than saying. They are typically drawn as a series of small bubbles leading to a cloud shape that holds the thought. In my cartoon, the thought is a day dream of an appropriate celebration for such an important occasion, only to be popped when I come back to reality.

All together now: “They say it’s your birthday….”

 

RM Schindler’s How House, 1925, part 4 of 4, form

Not so much building as analyzing

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I thought the How House was pretty simple, until I tried to draw a floor plan. I then started a model to help me understand it, and found out how complex it really is.  Although I present this analysis in a linear form, “building” the How House, it was designed as a whole and not in a step-by-step fashion. (figure 1) Continue reading RM Schindler’s How House, 1925, part 4 of 4, form