40 Days of Art: Drawing from the Screen

Back in the day, when I was an animation nipper just learning the ropes, if I wanted to learn how to draw an animated character, I had to deconstruct what I could from pictures printed in art books, the occasional colouring book if it was drawn well, and low-res jpgs from Altavista image search. We didn't have a VCR that would do frame-by-frame very clearly, and if you left it on pause for more than a minute it would turn off. You kids are so spoiled these days with yer DVDs and yer Quicktimes and yer 1000x1200 online images! Why back in my day –

Wait, I had a point here. Oh yes! ( Drawing from the screen. )

Hut Purgatory

It's been a while since I've given an update on Our Heroes and their adventures a century ago; this is because they've spent the last while cooped up in a hut waiting for the bay between them and Cape Evans to freeze so they could get back to the main base.

No single event of great import happened that would warrant a commemorative post, but everyone has anecdotes about how they passed their time, and it's fun to read different people's journals discuss the same thing. So, with occasional context from yours truly ...

( HUT POINT: IN THEIR OWN WORDS )

Finally, ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY, Scott decided to risk it and a party of men set off with their sledges across the bay.


HUGE thanks to Vandee for ferreting out some of these quotes for me!