My grandmother,
Nan Pollard, used illustrate coloring and children's books. She's done hundreds of the things, ranging from the Berenstien Bears coloring books to
Planet of the Apes to Grizzly Adams to Lassie to Trolls, and my mother has a copy of nearly all of them in our house. One of the few that we didn't manage to have, however, is the
Official Beatles Coloring Book. They made it in 1964, at the absolute height of Beatlemania. My mother was 15, and when she found out that while her parents were working on an official piece of merchandise for her beloved band, they could not manage to score her tickets to see them live in Chicago, so she locked herself in her room and cried for days. I love that story.
A few years back someone linked me a tshirt they found on
Threadless, thinking that I would like it. The shirt had been stirring up some controversy because people were accusing the artists of tracing their design off of a Japanese Artist, but it's actually from a page of this coloring book! Nobody believed me when I told them that.
Yesterday a package arrived from my uncle Paul, and inside was a wonderful birthday present: A copy of the Beatles coloring book intact, with no pages missing or colored in. This is very hard to find, and I have been looking for a very long time for this. There are over 100 illustrations in this thing. I had it in my head that I would scan and post downloadable copies of every page so you could have your very own Beatles coloring book to enjoy, since I've always had a bear of a time finding scans of it online. The book is too old, however, to risk cracking the spine on every page to get it to lie flat enough to scan. I managed to scan a number of them in for you, however. So enjoy this wonderful little piece of greatness. Click on an image to get a large very printable version to color!
It's a blue sapphire set next to two antique diamonds in a platinum art deco band. Does this boy know me or what? It's a good thing I said yes, amirite? Man I love this ring. LOOK AT IT. Seriously. Man. Just don't ask me when the wedding is. I do not want to think about that yet, hah.
On the Art Front: I've changed the way I draw Skin Deep, and now it's almost entirely digital. I still sketch the pages onto paper and scan them in, but now I'm inking digitally as well as coloring digitally. Does this not look great? I was thinking of maybe making a tutorial or something, since so many people ask me how I color Skin deep.
I just joined Twitter, since that's what all the cool kids are doing. So if you want to know all the minutia of my life well then check it out!.
As you may or may not know, I have a fondness for the Grecian Sphinx, so much so that one is the main character of my webcomic. I've fought with drawing her for years because of her bizarre anatomy, and recently I've had trouble trying to draw her in flight because I felt that I draw her wings too small to support her. So when my boyfriend Ben and I decided to rent the weird anime Paprika last night imagine my surprise when this scene popped up in the movie.
