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  Space Pirates, Martian Trailer, new brushNov 15, 2011 5:12 AM PST | url
 
Added 1 new A* page:Here's a silly thing I did of a whimsical "Space Pirate Selenis" over the weekend:
 
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She *is* kind of a space pirate, of course (which is to say, she does sometimes engage in piracy, in space), but normally she wouldn't dress or pose like that. But maybe she would if she hung out on Twitter, because that's where this came from.
 
There's a smaller version in the gallery that may be handier for whatever you might need one for.
 
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Speaking of space pirates, I came across a webcomic called Pirates of Mars that has some really nice art--a sort of casual elegance in the black lines and subtly gradated electronic grays of which I am oh so jealous. It seems to update somewhat sporadically but hopefully it'll keep the installments coming.
 
And in their blog I noticed that there's a trailer for Disney's upcoming "John Carter of Mars," an adaptation of one or more of the classic pulp science fiction books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It, eh... Well, it's early yet, and I bet they'll have a more coherent and interesting one closer to the movie's release.
 
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I got a new brush today! Which is kind of why I went a little crazy with the little black lines in today's page. But it's such a nice brush! It's a Winsor & Newton Series 7, size 3, and I'm replacing the Da Vinci Maestro size 3 I'd been using, because it was getting a little wacky--forming two points rather than one, for instance. It probably wasn't the Maestro's fault, as I didn't really know how to take care of it when I first started using it, and (at the recommendation of a clerk at the art supply store, and Doug TenNapel) I was bathing and pomading it in this snake-oil-looking stuff
 
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which was fun, but probably more chemical treatment than the sable bristles really needed--from now on I'll stick with warm water and gentle hand soap. So hopefully the W&N will stay nice and pointy yet silky soft as it was today for a good long while. It's sort of the classic cartoonist's brush--although twice as expensive as the Maestro, and no better according to the store clerks and various internet sources--and it does seem nicer and better at carrying ink than the Maestro was, even at the beginning.
 
 
 
 
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