Google now lets you embed a gallery into your blogposts!
Sort of…. I was hoping for something more in the way of a mini-gallery that can show up, but instead, it just shows the front cover of the photo gallery as a link to the public gallery at picasa.google.com which, in turn, is part of the beta-testing of Picasa 2 from Google. Still, you can just click through using the preview and get into the regular photo gallery section where you can get full sized images of the pictures. There are other cool features like downloading the full albums and so on.
Anyway, I’m more than happy to use their web-space instead of mine, especially since you can upload the photos in pretty decent resolution. Storage space is limited to 250MB I think, but that still gives you a good-ish amount of space to store quite a few photos. Plus, it seems like if you’re on a fast connection, their slideshow thing should run pretty smoothly…. So, I’ve started off by uploading my old doodles, and I’ve sort of sorted them into different categories….
The first gallery on this page mostly contains the more colorful pen-and-ink or marker drawings that I’ve done. Some of them are essentially copies of plain black and white drawings that I proceeded to color in with Prismacolor markers while others were painstakingly filled in with fine-tipped color pens.
The gallery to the left contains mostly pastels and watercolors—not my strong-point, but I still like them. Hey, I’m biased. I admit it.
The third gallery here to the right includes mostly etchings and woodblocks that I’ve done over the years. For the etchings, I did them while a student at Santa Barbara City College. The class was pretty cool, though I wasn’t too crazy about the teacher. The etching process is overall pretty cool though, and the hand-coloring of the plates—even though I was sloppy with it—was a pretty fun process.
The fourth gallery on this page contains my creatively titled group, “Mostly Monochromatic Black” which contains almost exclusively black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings. I would say that most of this output was from my high-school years, during which I almost always took a blank book around with me that I would meticulously doodle and scribble in no matter where I was. So, a lot of these were either drawn in classes that did not keep my attention, at punk/hardcore concerts that were too unpredictable, or at coffee shops while I waited for my friends to show up.
Gallery five here is sort of like the former gallery except that there is a little bit of play with color—so, not monochromatic black necessarily, but monochromatic blue or red or green or whatever plus maybe one other color…. Still, they aren’t nearly as “full-color” as the first gallery on this page, and were done mostly with pen-and-ink as opposed to markers.
All over my notebooks, I would scribble these little faces in the margins. Then at the end of the year, I’d cut them out and throw away the half-written notes I used to take. I’m just not much of a notetaker I guess. I don’t know why faces—I guess the pen just went with my hand and my hand was moving without much thought, and that’s what came out….
And, finally, there is a mass of drawings in the “Scribbly Doodles” gallery which are just, well, scribbly doodles. There’s a lot of incomplete stuff here. Or strange random collages. Or me trying to come up with different background patterns. Or me testing a new pen. Or me playing around with photocopies. Or me doodling around text that I didn’t want people to read or didn’t want them to have an easy time reading. Or me—well, you get the idea.
Overall, the resolution viewable at the galleries is high enough that you can actually zoom in on most of the pictures and actually read the stories that were messily scribbled in there, so if you want to take a look at a pretty productive few years of doodling, head over to the galleries and check out the pictures with their pretty colors….
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Art! Look at all the pretty colors….
Google now lets you embed a gallery into your blogposts!
Sort of…. I was hoping for something more in the way of a mini-gallery that can show up, but instead, it just shows the front cover of the photo gallery as a link to the public gallery at picasa.google.com which, in turn, is part of the beta-testing of Picasa 2 from Google. Still, you can just click through using the preview and get into the regular photo gallery section where you can get full sized images of the pictures. There are other cool features like downloading the full albums and so on.
Anyway, I’m more than happy to use their web-space instead of mine, especially since you can upload the photos in pretty decent resolution. Storage space is limited to 250MB I think, but that still gives you a good-ish amount of space to store quite a few photos. Plus, it seems like if you’re on a fast connection, their slideshow thing should run pretty smoothly…. So, I’ve started off by uploading my old doodles, and I’ve sort of sorted them into different categories….
The first gallery on this page mostly contains the more colorful pen-and-ink or marker drawings that I’ve done. Some of them are essentially copies of plain black and white drawings that I proceeded to color in with Prismacolor markers while others were painstakingly filled in with fine-tipped color pens.
The gallery to the left contains mostly pastels and watercolors—not my strong-point, but I still like them. Hey, I’m biased. I admit it.
The third gallery here to the right includes mostly etchings and woodblocks that I’ve done over the years. For the etchings, I did them while a student at Santa Barbara City College. The class was pretty cool, though I wasn’t too crazy about the teacher. The etching process is overall pretty cool though, and the hand-coloring of the plates—even though I was sloppy with it—was a pretty fun process.
The fourth gallery on this page contains my creatively titled group, “Mostly Monochromatic Black” which contains almost exclusively black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings. I would say that most of this output was from my high-school years, during which I almost always took a blank book around with me that I would meticulously doodle and scribble in no matter where I was. So, a lot of these were either drawn in classes that did not keep my attention, at punk/hardcore concerts that were too unpredictable, or at coffee shops while I waited for my friends to show up.
Gallery five here is sort of like the former gallery except that there is a little bit of play with color—so, not monochromatic black necessarily, but monochromatic blue or red or green or whatever plus maybe one other color…. Still, they aren’t nearly as “full-color” as the first gallery on this page, and were done mostly with pen-and-ink as opposed to markers.
All over my notebooks, I would scribble these little faces in the margins. Then at the end of the year, I’d cut them out and throw away the half-written notes I used to take. I’m just not much of a notetaker I guess. I don’t know why faces—I guess the pen just went with my hand and my hand was moving without much thought, and that’s what came out….
And, finally, there is a mass of drawings in the “Scribbly Doodles” gallery which are just, well, scribbly doodles. There’s a lot of incomplete stuff here. Or strange random collages. Or me trying to come up with different background patterns. Or me testing a new pen. Or me playing around with photocopies. Or me doodling around text that I didn’t want people to read or didn’t want them to have an easy time reading. Or me—well, you get the idea.
Overall, the resolution viewable at the galleries is high enough that you can actually zoom in on most of the pictures and actually read the stories that were messily scribbled in there, so if you want to take a look at a pretty productive few years of doodling, head over to the galleries and check out the pictures with their pretty colors….
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