Author: dougrogers
cartoon life: Cute recycling advice
Watch “Empty, Clean and Dry” on #Vimeo https://vimeo.com/388545546 Excuse me? Do you know how big my kitchen is in this 90 year old house? My mud room is the winter back deck where I transfer the contents of smaller blue boxes crammed full, jury-rigged under a ledge. Pack all your
Continue readingcartoon life: Slogging through the cash and trash…
It seems there is no way to post an image tweet directly from a WordPress dot com free blog without upgrading to a business account for a plug-in, or using third party support. The point of the twitter feed is to distribute in narrow siloed market. The content simply, is
Continue readingcartoon life: luso mnthali on Twitter: “US Customs officials destroyed renowned Mali musician Ballaké Sissoko’s kora. https://t.co/NxXIQthUec” / Twitter
luso mnthali on Twitter: “US Customs officials destroyed renowned Mali musician Ballaké Sissoko’s kora. https://t.co/NxXIQthUec” / Twitter — Read on twitter.com/malabousaza/status/1225151856999043074
Continue readingcartoon life: gerald zuckier on Twitter: “@cmargir @malabousaza @chick_in_kiev Studies suggest that as much as 75% of the drugs that reach the US are smuggled over the border in glue used to hold pianos together, brought in by world famous pianists. Each piano may have as much as an ounce of drugs dissolved in the glue holding its 1200 lbs together.” / Twitter
gerald zuckier on Twitter: “@cmargir @malabousaza @chick_in_kiev Studies suggest that as much as 75% of the drugs that reach the US are smuggled over the border in glue used to hold pianos together, brought in by world famous pianists. Each piano may have as much as an ounce of drugs
Continue readingcartoon life: Linocut cat
Downloaded some previous version Procreate Lino brush tools. Basically the shapes of the cutting edge, work over a sketch layer over a middle or dark tone background, make the marks. Select or mask the areas of intended separate colour, as though cutting separate registered tiles. Fill over with a textured
Continue readingcartoon life: Ouch…
Strain injury? Arthritis? I want it to go away. 
Continue readingcartoon life: Maybe I’ll move
Considering moving LondOntLife to Tumblr. The major following is off Twitter for the very localized cartoons, so it really doesn’t need WordPress as a storage place for the images. Clicks back to the blog are minimal. WordPress shares nicely with other social sites, but feeds only a link to Twitter.
Continue readingcartoon life: Up your distribution
Probably the second LondOntLife book, likely in the Spring… Some rambling. It comes together eventually Yes, distribution and promotion remain a part of this. The cartoons just aren’t useful or effective unless they’re being seen, discussed, posted on refrigerators, broken out of the silo… So, we remade the LondOntLife
Continue readingcartoon life: Animations. Everybody does it.
Well once you have Procreate 5, you have to make an animation. Can’t be helped.
Continue readingcartoon life: https://londontlife.wordpress.com/2019/12/01/mytitle-block-editor-aaaargh/
mytitle Block Editor AAAARGH….
Continue readingcartoon life: 7 Books for a Facebook tag game
# Tagged for a stupid facebook meme — Oct 25, 2019 Will not tag anyone to end the Karma chain. No particular order, except the order in which I thought of them 1) Jack Vance Planet of Adventure series https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_Adventure Thrilling adventures on alien planet. And The Dying Earth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_Earth
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