Brian (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} brianvds) wrote,@ 2009-05-31 07:38:00 |
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Some small, sketchy things
Warning: this post contains several links to other pages. These are supposed to open in a new window. But my knowledge of the HTML code necessary to achieve that is about a decade out of date, so I don't know whether it is going to work in all browsers, or indeed in any. My apologies in advance to any frustrated surfers out there, desperate to follow links to nowhere, if any.
A few of my latest adventures in dubious creativity; two small pen drawings with watercolour, and a pencil sketch. None of them are larger than about 15cm in height, which is partly why they lack in much detail. The other reason is that I am too lazy to try to put in all the detail, and that when I do try to do so, I tend to end up with extremely messy pictures anyway.
Here's some or other species of butterfly. I made the wings a bit too large but only noticed it when I had already reached the point of no return with the picture:
And then, a type of insect known as a stainer bug. I'm told these can be nasty pests, but seeing as I'm not a farmer, I think they're quite beautiful:
And lastly, another in my series of credit card-sized portraits. I didn't like it very much, but then, I seldom like anything I draw very much. At least Missus Moneypenny liked it. No, not THAT Moneypenny, this one.
She now proudly displays it in her living room for all the world to see (and she knows LOTS of people), which is one reason why I'm glad I didn't sign it with my full name.
Anyway, here it is:
Something rather weird and wonderful has happened, or so I thought. I host my images at Photobucket and one of their features that I recently discovered is that you can look at some statistics of how often your images have been accessed. This includes information on which sites they have been accessed from. And so I discovered that my portrait of Mr. Bean from a previous post had been accessed on a site called Portal of Evil. I had never heard of them before.
My first thought was that someone had enjoyed my portrait so much that he/she had stolen it for his own site, and while many other people might immediately think of calling their lawyers, I simply felt rather proud of myself. I have grave doubts over much of current copyright law, and being happy to put my proverbial money where my mouth is, as far as I am concerned, anyone is welcome to use anything he finds on my blog for any purpose whatsoever. Especially seeing as I used someone else's photo as reference for the drawing in the first place.
But alas, as it turns out I was not about to achieve sudden fame in cyberspace. It was on a page where people post images randomly pulled from Livejournal, so my little portrait languishes there amongst a whole host of other images. You can see it on this page.
Warning: this post contains several links to other pages. These are supposed to open in a new window. But my knowledge of the HTML code necessary to achieve that is about a decade out of date, so I don't know whether it is going to work in all browsers, or indeed in any. My apologies in advance to any frustrated surfers out there, desperate to follow links to nowhere, if any.
A few of my latest adventures in dubious creativity; two small pen drawings with watercolour, and a pencil sketch. None of them are larger than about 15cm in height, which is partly why they lack in much detail. The other reason is that I am too lazy to try to put in all the detail, and that when I do try to do so, I tend to end up with extremely messy pictures anyway.
Here's some or other species of butterfly. I made the wings a bit too large but only noticed it when I had already reached the point of no return with the picture:
And then, a type of insect known as a stainer bug. I'm told these can be nasty pests, but seeing as I'm not a farmer, I think they're quite beautiful:
And lastly, another in my series of credit card-sized portraits. I didn't like it very much, but then, I seldom like anything I draw very much. At least Missus Moneypenny liked it. No, not THAT Moneypenny, this one.
She now proudly displays it in her living room for all the world to see (and she knows LOTS of people), which is one reason why I'm glad I didn't sign it with my full name.
Anyway, here it is:
Something rather weird and wonderful has happened, or so I thought. I host my images at Photobucket and one of their features that I recently discovered is that you can look at some statistics of how often your images have been accessed. This includes information on which sites they have been accessed from. And so I discovered that my portrait of Mr. Bean from a previous post had been accessed on a site called Portal of Evil. I had never heard of them before.
My first thought was that someone had enjoyed my portrait so much that he/she had stolen it for his own site, and while many other people might immediately think of calling their lawyers, I simply felt rather proud of myself. I have grave doubts over much of current copyright law, and being happy to put my proverbial money where my mouth is, as far as I am concerned, anyone is welcome to use anything he finds on my blog for any purpose whatsoever. Especially seeing as I used someone else's photo as reference for the drawing in the first place.
But alas, as it turns out I was not about to achieve sudden fame in cyberspace. It was on a page where people post images randomly pulled from Livejournal, so my little portrait languishes there amongst a whole host of other images. You can see it on this page.
