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TODAY'S FEATURED POST

THE GIFT

Greg Ruth

[caption id="attachment_73546" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Art by Kent Williams[/caption] I've been trying to figure a way to boil down a post to celebrate Allen Spiegel's life, what he meant to me and so many others in his decades long career as an art enabler, agent, mentor and friend. It's never easy, and always reductive. So I'm going eschew the standard protocol and list all his history of accomplishments, which are so many and voluminous as to hold…

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Defining Locks: Hair As Storyteller

Winona Nelson

September 25, 2023 - I am in love with hair. All kinds of hair—straight and long, short and spiky, curly and huge, braided or dreadlocked. Beyond being such a beautiful representation of human diversity and self-expression, the silhouette of the hair makes for a fantastic compositional or character design element. Long, straight hair can be used to create leading shapes to bring the viewer’s eye to the face. Voluminous, curly hair can add drama and can function as a framing element for the face. Spiky hair and tooth-like triangular shapes add a sense of action, much like a shouting word balloon in a comic book. Hair can tell you what kind of person this character is, both in a literal sense and a more abstract sense. If you think of hair literally, it conveys genetic and cultural heritage. The…

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