Here We Go Around Again.

Happy New Year, people. Here we go swooshing back around to the beginning of the calendar. Seems we were just here. I just had to update my copyright notice to '09. Wow.
Anyway I hope the new year brings progress, and chocolate, and good beer, and sunsets and soap that smells good and clean socks. I hope it brings friends around, keeps jerks away, and less things explode including buildings. I hope potholes get filled, calls get returned, and good movies get released. I hope lizards find good rocks to sun themselves on, and small bookstores continue to exist. I hope the new year brings no cavities, even with all the chocolate. I hope it brings good pencil sharpeners and non-smeared ink. And birthday parties and stuffed animals and new things made of Legos. And a relatively barf-free cat who remembers where the litter box is. All this and more. Best wishes.

Happy Holidays from the Ipps.

Happy Holidays from the Ipps
Originally uploaded by betsystreeter

You didn't think they'd let the season go by without doing SOMEthing, did you?

Fun with Slideshare!

I've been having great fun posting presentations about drawing and creativity on Slideshare - most of that material ends up on my other blog, http://www.droolydog.com/, since that's my teaching blog - but I thought it would be good to mention here too.

Presentations are like mini-books for me, they let me tell a very short story and offer ideas and advice in a nice package that people can read whenever they want. Also I can use my own drawing/writing style to make them, rather than relying on words on a page which don't really tell the whole story - in my case. It's using high-tech to share stuff I made with a marker. Whee!

And, I've been really pleased at how many people seem to be enjoying these. My first clue was when my presentation "How to Draw Nothing" got a thousand hits in one day. I've got four presentations up so far, each is on some facet of drawing or creativity. You can see them at www.slideshare.net/betsystreeter.

More to come on Slideshare soon!

More Original Art...

Okay, I've pulled a couple more Ipps and put them up on Etsy - every so often I'll come across another sketch, and some of them lend themselves well to being matted - I leave them in their 'natural' state based on how I drew them, sketch marks and all, so who knows what I'll find next!

Snowbot 2008: "Believe"

Snowbot 2008: "Believe"
Originally uploaded by betsystreeter

An Original Ipp Drawing...!

Okay as you can imagine, it's tough for me to part with drawings, even out of sketchbooks and character studies. But, I've been asked a lot of times about originals -- and they don't give anyone joy pressed together in a stack. So, here goes. This is the first original Ipp drawing to go up. He's a mighty knight, and I did him in pencil (still visible), ink pen and metallic marker. I'm hoping he can find a good home... he's about 4x6. And he's ready for anything.