Brabbles & Boggitt Page 6

I must apologise for last weeks posting that reliably---or as it would turn out---unreliably informed you that this week would see Goldilocks...I got my pages wrong. NEXT WEEK will see the arrival of Goldilocks and all the trouble and skull-duggery she will eventually pour into our little heroes world.

Anyway, here's part 6, so enjoy and I'll see you next week for more

NEXT WEEK: Goldilocks...honest it is...oh, and the local constabulary.

If you like my blog and the things that I say and do, please tell your friends; mention me on Facebook, Twitter and any of the other fine social media networking sites you use. I would love to have my work reach a much larger audience and although I could no doubt eventually get there under my own steam, I'll get there a lot quicker with your help, so please, please spread the word.

Thank you

Marketing the Bear

Big Ol' Bear is copyright Karl Dixon

Now this is a quick post, well quicker than normal. I've been looking into a few projects as of late, and seeing as this particular one will be taking up space on the side bar to the right of these posts very soon, I thought it best to start here.

I've created a character, a character who has already had a blog post of his very own--- he was used in one of my previous tutorials on how to do a water colour cutie---anyway, this character, called Big Ol' Bear, has been developed even more and I am marketing him through a range of products like, greeting cards, iPhone covers, iPad covers, hoodies, other clothing and possibly children's books; though the books will be done largely through through Amazon print on demand (POD) and Lulu POD.

If you'd like to go and view my initial foray into this wonderful world of artist product placement, then please click here--- view my Red Bubble page--- and see what you think. At the moment there's only one design up but more will follow over the next few days and weeks, so keep coming back and keep viewing. Your participation is always welcome.

Cheers

If you like my blog and the things that I say and do, please tell your friends; mention me on Facebook, Twitter and any of the other fine social media networking sites you use. I would love to have my work reach a much larger audience and although I could no doubt eventually get there under my own steam, I'll get there a lot quicker with your help, so please, please spread the word.

Thank you

Karl

Drawing a cartoon vulture

Aaaaaand here's the second post as promised. I know I'm not always the most trustworthy of people when it comes to giving you a second post on the date I promised it, but today, I am that 'trustworthy' person.

Okay so this is it, in today's tutorial I teach you how to draw a vulture...that's it. Simple really; not much else I can say; so I'll shut up and let you go grab a pencil and impress the hell out of yourselves.

This Little 'Piggy' went to YouTube

I haven't produced a cartoon tutorial for quite some time, so I thought today, with the weekend looming and pencils easier to find, it could be a good time to give you another 'How to' video.

And because I realise that not everyone who visits my blog is a proffessional cartoonist, I'm going to start a series of tutorials--- available on my YouTube page as well--- where you can regularly go and catch up, or sit back and be entertained; whichever takes your fancy.

I do have a whole load of other tutorials up there, but due to some weird YouTubian glitch, when I last went to sign in, it forced me to open up a new account and start all over again. But if you wish to see my other tutorials, either go to my tutorials tab which is up above this post or just click here and go view the page that I can no longer access.




This particular tutorial is aimed at those of you out there who just want to learn a neat trick on how to produce a nice looking cartoon while using only simple shapes. There's also a tutorial on how to draw a cartoon elephant using the same simple shape technique on there.

So have fun and send me in your samples, it's always good to see your work.

Cheers

Karl

By the way, if you are in need of books, DVD's, games, electrical goods and you're going to use Amazon to buy them, please click onto it through my site on the banner advert to your right; for every person that does I get a payment from Amazon, and if you order from that click then I get a commission on what you buy. It doesn't cost you a single penny extra but it does help fund this blog, enabling me to carry on giving you free cartoon advice and stories.

Please remember, every click you make helps me entertain you! Thank you

Bit Sized Commission

I'd almost forgotten about this one.
Quite a while ago I was contacted by Longleat, an older customer of mine, who asked if they could use some of my animal designs for a new range of confectioneries that they were hoping to launch later in the year, and after the obligatory money chat they went off promising me goodies in the future.

Like I said, that was quite some time ago, and seeing as I'm often promised samples of my finished printed or published work but often through the pressures and constraint of time and deadlines, never receive them. So quite naturally, I just forgot all about it. But bless Alison, both she and Longleat were more than true to their word and a nice little box of goodies arrived for me this morning.

Now all I have to do is hide them from my three chocolate loving daughters.

As always, please click on the photos to enlarge but try not to drool all over the screen