Category: Mini Munny

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Photos from the Little Luna session!

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That’s easily my favorite photo. 🙂

Gazillions of thanks to Little Luna (Happy belated birthday!), who without, we would have all been very, very bored, and, well, things would have been somewhat awkward.  Thanks to Lynn, Derrick, Andrew, and everyone else at Dionysus too for letting us draw pretty Luna in their dining room and for keeping our drinks filled (and getting lit with Alexis and I lit later on that evening after we finished putting everything back together).

Thanks to Jeff for the photos and Bill for holding down the door.  Tons and tons of thanks to our sponsors Atomic Books, Artist & Craftsman Supply, and Baby Tattoo Books.  By the way, Don from Artist & Craftsman gave away a ton of free art supplies . . . in addition the two art piles (water colors, canvases, etc) give away as prizes for a contest.

More photos, yes?

The next two of Little Luna in her Eve costume crack me up.

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This next one was for the Atomic Books sponsored contest, which was best incorporation of the Mini-Munny in your drawing, with the prize being the Mini-Munny.

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The above one cracked me up…if you can’t read the text, the top caption says, “I wonder what sort of accessory comes with Full-Size Luna?” and the bottom one says, “I wonder what sort of accessory comes with Full-Size Munny?”

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The next contest was for Symptomatica by Ragnar, from Baby Tattoo books.

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Watch out, Vanna.

Back to Luna…

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The contest was a new one….write the most fucked up sentence you can think of on a card, then pass it to the person on your left who then has to try and incorporate into their drawing.

There were some seriously demented sentences.

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Next session is this Monday, April 27th, at 7 with Sable Sin Cyr.

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Alexis and I are actually in NYC this weekend for a Dr. Sketchy’s convention, so, if the train explodes or Molly gets us all arrested, Bill and Jeff may have to run the shebang themselves, which could be all sorts an interesting adventure, but hopefully no trains will explode and since Alexis and I are quite good at evaporating after bar fights, there’s probably nothing to worry about.

Probably.

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Little Luna Sketches!

After a fantastic night of drinking and drawing with Little Luna, we’ve got a bunch of sketches to show! While I’d prefer to post the sketches with the photos in one big recap post, it seems kinda wrong to just leave these awesome drawings sitting unseen in our inbox any longer.

Here’s a page full of quick (1-2 minute) sketches from David Newbold:

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Here’s a few of Brian Dugan‘s quick sketches:

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Brian captured Little Luna’s pixie-like beauty in his 10-minute drawings:

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And, for his entry in the two-panel contest, Kurt Aspland was obviously also inspired by it:041409-kurta2

David Newbold was inspired to create a two-panel story of another sort…

041308-davidn2…and was one of the winners of a brand new wood panel and watercolor set from Artist & Craftsman Supply.

He and the other talented winner may have also gotten a small canvas each, actually. I honestly don’t remember now, because Don, our very generous sponsor at A&C, was giving away a shit-ton of free stuff –free (22″ x 30″, maybe?) sheets of Fabriano paper, some smaller sheets of tinted paper… Seriously, folks must have gotten the cover fee back in free art supplies. If you were one of those lucky artists to get in on this, be sure to stop by the store on North Ave. and Howard St. to thank him.

Our next contest was to incorporate mini-Munny into your drawing of Little Luna. The prize, of course, was a mini-Munny from Atomic Books in Hampden (reminder: you have less than two weeks to see their Vinylmore 2: Tiny Town show, right in the store.)

David’s entry for this contest:

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And here’s Kurt’s:

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And Brian’s (like David’s, imagining mini-Munny and Luna in a King Kong situation):

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Leah Bloomfield took home the Munny with her Gulliver’s Travels-inspired drawing:

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Our last contest was a bit of an experiment for us. Before the last break, I first showed off our very awesome prize from our newest sponsor, Baby Tattoo Books, which was a copy of Ragnar’s Symptomatica. We then passed out blank cards to the audience and asked them to write a single, random sentence on their card during the break. At the end of the break, we asked everyone to pass their card to the person on their left, then announced the contest: incorporate the sentence given to you into your drawing.

As if we needed any confirmation that our audience is made up of seriously twisted (but talented!) individuals…some of the things people came up with were pretty awesomely bizarre or just straight up wrong. Hopefully, we’ll get more of those to share here, but in the meantime, here’s Brian’s entry:

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And here’s a photo (one of the few we have at the moment) of the winner with his entry and his prize:img_3165-1

I think the sentence was something like, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy ketchup.”

And that’s all for now!

Well, almost. Here’s one more–Leah Bloomfield created this lovely finished illustration after the session, using her winning Munny sketch as a reference:

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Special thanks to David, Brian, Kurt, and Leah for sharing their fantastic sketches with us! If you have sketches from any of our sessions that you’d like us to include in our blog, send them here.

And, of course, a huuuge thanks to our lovely muse, Little Luna!

Check back in a few days for the photos from this session and details on our next session on April 27.

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Vinylmore 2 : Tiny Town & Drunk, Loose, & Sloppy

Two events this Friday yall folks might be interested in.  First is the gallery opening of Vinylmore 2 : Tiny Town at Atomic Books at 8 o’clock.  The show will run through April 30th.  It features DIY (Do It Yourself) vinyl toys from local Baltimore artists (including Alexis and I) . . . here’s an almost full list of the folks showing . . .

BOSON AU, DANIEL BAROJAS, JUSTIN BLEMLY, STEPHEN BLICKENSTAFF, SAM BOSMA, MICHAEL S BRACCO, CATHLEEN BROOKS, JAMES BULLOUGH, AARON BUSH, PETER CHANG, BEN CLAASSEN III, DATEK, ALEXIS DE LA ROSA, ALEX FINE, CAM FLOYD, PENNY FORESTER, GHOSTFREEHOOD, JOSH GRIFFIN, KATE HABERER, BRANDON HILL, TIM HILL, JORDAN JEFFRIES, JEREMINUS, GREGORY JOHNSON, ELENA JOHNSTON, CHRIS KEATON, DANIEL KRALL, HAWK KRALL, JIM LASHER, SARAH MIRES, STEVE MORRIS, CARL NIELSON, ROBBY RACKLEFF (BLUE LEADER), MARC RALEY, BRIAN RALPH, RYAN ONORATO, STEPHEN JOHN PHILLIPS, MICHAEL SACHSE, ERIK JACOBUS SCHMALZ, WHITNEY SHERMAN, JIM SHEA, KEVIN SHERRY, DAVE SOBEL, CALEB STINE, NOLEN STRALS, SCOTT SUGIUCHI, SARA TOMKO, TOPHAT, TREBUCHET, ANDREA VITALE-LATHE, ERIN WOMACK, YUMI YASUDA, DARCEY YOUNG, JEREMY ZOMBIE, and more!

Not only that, but Gilded Lily is having a show at the Palace of Wonders in DC on Friday as well.

Here’s the copy from the Palace of Wonders webiste….

Gilded Lily Burlesque invites you to join them for Drunk, Loose and Sloppy- a down-and-dirty night of titillating burlesque performances at their favorite DC sideshow museum and burlesque venue- the Palace of Wonders! These sassy performers will combine 50% good old-fashioned striptease and 50% theatrical performance to not only tantalize, but also entertain and engage their audience- that means YOU! So, don’t miss out on your chance to get drunk, loose and sloppy with Baltimore’s best burlesque troupe!

Alexis and I are in Vancouver at the moment, but we’ll be back Friday and are going to try and make both.  Don’t know if it’ll happen, but we’re going to try. 🙂

BTW, next Dr. Sketchy’s with Little Luna is on April 13th . . . I’m working on the flyer right now while sitting in the hotel room, so it should be up in a couple days. 🙂