Today, we're back to Halloween with 2 giveaways and a decoration. You can get yourself in the running for copies of Origami Masters: Bugs How the Bug Wars Changed the Art of Origami and 20 Ways to Draw a Cat and 44 Other Awesome Animals. So if you want to fold up some spooky bugs and draw some black cats you will be all set! If you are in the mood to make some felt skulls to hang about, here is how I made a bunch.
Using the skull template below, I cut out the outline, the eyes and nose.
Then I traced the skull onto the felt, and cut them out. After that, I simply used a sharpie to draw in the teeth and some of the texture lines freehand.
I hung them up on a string of Christmas lights with tiny clothes pins along with a spider and a bat made from black garland.
I used Styrofoam balls for the eyes on the spider.
I used little ping pong balls for the eyes on the bat.
This is the skull outline I used to make my felt skull garland.
http://www.fanart-central.net/pictures/user/Vicious/197025/Skull-Outline-Only
And as promised here are the two Giveaways:
20 Ways to Draw a Cat and 44 Other Awesome Animals: A Sketchbook for Artists, Designers, and Doodlers
by Julia Kuo
This inspiring sketchbook is part of the new 20 Ways series
from Quarry Books, designed to offer artists, designers, and doodlers a
fun and sophisticated collection of illustration exercises. Each spread
features 20 inspiring illustrations of a single animal, such as a cat,
giraffe, seal, elephant, or whale–with blank space for you to draw your
take on 20 Ways to Draw a Cat.
The stylized animals are simplified, modernized, and reduced to the
most basic elements, showing how simple abstract shapes and forms meld
to create the building blocks of any item that you want to draw. Each of
the 20 interpretations provides a different, interesting approach to
drawing a single item. Presented in the author’s uniquely creative
style, this engaging and motivational practice book provides a new take
on the world of sketching, doodling, and designing.
Julia Kuo splits her time between Cleveland, OH, and
Taipei, Taiwan. She grew up in Los Angeles, CA, and attended Washington
University in St. Louis for illustration and marketing. Julia
illustrates children's books, concert posters and CD covers, designs
stationery and journals, and paints in her free time. One recent gallery
show featured paintings of street fashion shots from Face Hunter.
Julia's clients include American Greetings, the New York Times,
the Home Shopping Network, Little Brown and Co., Capitol Records, Tiny
Prints, and Universal Music Group. Her illustrations have been honored
in American Illustration, CMYK magazine, and Creative Quarterly. Visit
her online at http://www.juliakuo.com.
Origami Masters: Bugs How the Bug Wars Changed the Art of Origami
by Marcio Noguchi, Shuki Kato, Jason Ku, Sebastian Arellano, Won Park, Marc Kirschenbaum, Dan Robinson
In the early 1990s, members of the Origami Tanteidan Convention in Japan
began a unique competition devoted to insects and other arthropods as,
over a period of years, artists attempted to one-up each other,
successively adding legs, antennae, wings, and more. Each year, the
models became increasingly complex, as origami enthusiasts from around
the world joined the fray. Beetles became winged beetles. Winged beetles
became winged spotted beetles. And so on. Models went from 30 or 40
steps to hundreds of steps. As a result, origami artists developed a
range of design techniques that ultimately changed the entire art of
origami folding. Bugs continue today to be a favorite subject for
origami artists, and this book both describes the original challenges
that stretched the art and also includes 12 original contemporary bugs
(including one master-level project) designed by some of the most
talented origami artists today from around the world—with detailed
step-by-step instructions to make them.
