It is time once again to begin the 2010 2nd Annual Halloween Coloring Contest. The rules are simple.
- Click one of the 8 coloring pages above, download and print.
- Color them any way you see fit whether with crayons, Photoshop, markers, color pencil, macaroni, yarn or whatever. Your tools are up to you.
- Scan or digitally photograph your finished work of art and upload it to the Facebook event page. Don’t have a Facebook account? Just email me the image doodlemasters(at)rybreadstudio(dot)com.
- Enter as many times as you want but be sure to do it before midnight on Halloween (Oct 31st).
- The winner will be announced on Nov 1st.
The prize this year will be a limited release Halloween and Activity Book and a box of crayons (as seen below). You will receive a printed book to enjoy now and a digital book to print and enjoy later. This book has 16 pages of funness to help you stay in the Halloween spirit all year round.
Get excited and happy coloring 🙂
My sweet talented wife decided she needed to use her creativity for righteousness. Last year, around Christmas she started crocheting these great electronic device holders she calls the iMonster. She found this little website called Etsy that facilitates a way that creatives can sell hand-made goods. So she started a shop (her shop) and before she knew it, she was selling her crocheted goodness. I am lucky enough that I was given an iMonster for my iPod Touch. I love it and it keeps my iPod nice and cozy.
The drawing above is my interpretation of my iMonster holding my iPod. Below is a photo of the actual iMonster for those of you too lazy to click on her shop and the original sketch. click thumbnails to view larger
Here is the graphic design I did for our Quidditch Event last month.
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These are cards for an Exploding Snap game I made for a family Harry Potter party. It is played like the classic game Snap. Every player has their own pile of cards, face down. Players will turn one card over at the same time in a separate pile. When a player sees a match they yell “SNAP!” The player that made the match keeps the piles that are involved in the match. When a player sees the Exploding Snap card and yells “BOOM!”, that player gets all the face up piles on the table. Play until all the matches have been made. The players add up the points in the piles they have earned. Beware, the baddies are worth negative points.
We had a lot of fun playing this. To ensure that we all turned our cards over simultaneously we said “Wingardium Leviosa”. Because of the negative points, we quickly discovered that the player with the most cards didn’t necessarily win.
If you would like printable files of this game, please download them for free at www.RybreadStudio.com/freebies
I just started with a basic shape. My sister wanted me to make a dragon, but I said that will be too hard. So, I said, “how about a dragon fly?” She thought it was a great idea. The first time I showed my mom it was just the wings. Then I started adding on Legos. The parts that were most difficult were the eyes. It took me a while, but finally I got what I wanted. The next time I showed Mom she was very impressed.
They’re tiny. They’re mutants. They’re ninjas. They’re turtles. You know you love them.
Sometimes I tire of designing logos for other people. To keep myself from getting the creative blahs I started doing fake logos for fake companies. My favorite is Igor’s Courier. What’s your favorite?
I will immediately post future fake logos on my Facebook page after I complete them. If you’re on facebook and not a fan yet, just click “like” on the right hand side of this blog.
Being raised sandwiched in the middle of four sisters, I grew up appreciating the likes of unicorns, Anne Shirley, Strawberry Shortcake and American Girls for what they were. While I spent my time playing with Ninja Turtles and helping Mario struggle through the Mushroom Kingdom on my NES, I learned an appreciation for what girls are interested in.
When I married my sweet wife eleven years ago she would spend hours watching me play Resident Evil and I would spend hours watching her “girly” movies. It was a fair trade (although I think there was a significant sacrifice on her part witnessing me blow up zombies). Once I started to decipher what the characters were saying I really began to enjoy Sense & Sensibility, Emma and the 6 hour version of Pride and Prejudice. Since then I think I have watched every film version of Jane Austen tale. Apparently her stories are quite popular among women folk.
I may not be an avid sport fan, shoot woodland creatures or own a vehicle that’s too big to fit in my garage, but my love and appriciation for a well done Jane Austen flick has been known to make a few of my wife’s girlfriends a little jealous.
This doodle of Pride and Prejudice’s main characters was created with a Sakura Micron pen on regular paper. It was fun to capture Mr. Darcy’s haughtiness and Elizabeth Bennet’s judgmental smirk with as little lines as possible.
They’re the world’s most fearsome fighting team. Who doesn’t like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? I did the doodle above fairly recently. I went through this stint where I just couldn’t get these guys out of my mind. I couldn’t help but to sketch them out. As I was doodleing I began to reminisce how utterly obsessed with the Ninja Turtles I was. I would faithfully watch the cartoon everyday after school. Once, I got mad at my older sister for hogging the T.V. and ninja kicked a hole in the drywall. I’m sure violence exhibited in the cartoon didn’t influence me at all.
I even had quite the collection of Turtle action figures. I ‘d collect the cardboard backs of their blister packs and store them in a binder. I remember setting a string/zip-line up in the basement family room for Raphael, Leonardo, Donatello and Michael Angelo to crash though a pyramid of plastic drinking cups and various turtle foes. When I wasn’t playing with them they were set up in the coolest fighting positions I could think of on the plethora of shelves in my room. I wish I still had them all. I guess I shouldn’t have hung them from tree branches and shot them with a BB gun.
With a little help from a wood working rasp, a file, a handheld power sander and a little paint I would fashion myself ninja weapons out of whatever wood I could get my hands on. I had a sweet broom handle bow staff, mini nunchucks, and a wooden katana blade. I couldn’t wait for the day I could take metal shop and make myself a pair of sai. My interest in TMNT must have waned because by he time I took metalshop in 9th grade I never made those sai. I did create a pretty sweet grappling hook though.
Of course, my favorite thing to do was to draw the turtles in all there teenage mutant ninja glory. Below are couple of turtley drawings I did when I was about 12. Bear in mind that I copied these from folders that held my school work, not made up by my 12 year old brain. Click on the Thumbnails to see larger.
Miles’ drawing of a zombie frog. What more can be said?
Doodle Masters 