Welcome to the Bones Drawing Guide, ready as promised. This entry is designed to rapidly teach the important basics about how to draw. The first rule is, don't assume you aren't capable of drawing!
The art for these lessons was drawn on paper and scanned; it also applies for drawing vector art in Powerpoint along the lines of my previous guides (1, 2). The text was originally handwritten but is also typed below each pagescan in case you can't read my handwriting, plus expanded on a little.
Welcome to the Results for the Bohrok Kool contest!
NOTE: Due to time constraints, from now on I will not include extensive comments with blog contest results. I wish I could, but if I try, I'll never get them, or anything else, finished. Also, in the blog entry results, I won't include honorable mentions; only the single top place winner for each Kal. However, those, and non-winners, are included in the downloadable Powerpoint file.
Slideshow Results Download
The Honorable Mentions m
Everybody knows the Bohrok Kal sold horribly. They were clones of the original Bohrok. This is bad. Not everybody hated them, but yeah.
Coincidentally (okay not so much ) the Bionicle Paracosmos is going to have an opportunity soon to include both the original Bohrok Kal, identical to canon, AND six further-mutated Bohrok Kal. The only guideline I have is that these mutated Kal are larger than normal Bohrok, and each is mutated in a different way.
That's what this contest is all about. Re
This entry is to advertise the contest again (revamp Kal!) and to post the banner I made.
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Time for the next installment of the Bo Ring Cartoon Collection blog feature! This is a cartoon comic series created, written, and illustrated by me, about a news reporter who is... less than top notch. You can see the first collection here: Bo Ring Collection #1.
Enjoy!
Collection #2
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Bo Ring Cartoon # 38
Bo Ring Cartoon # 39
Bo Ring Cartoon # 40
Bo Ring Cartoon # 41
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Bo Ring Cartoon # 43
Bo Ring Cartoon # 44
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In order to keep my blog from dying a long and painful death, I'm taking an hour or so today to launch a feature that I've been meaning to post on BZP for several years but never got around to it... This is a hand-drawn comic series I began drawing for fun many years ago (before I knew of BZP, I think, though my memory is faulty). It's based around a news reporter who is, how shall I put it... less than top-notch... Originally planned to post this as a COT topic, but I figure a regular feature i
It took a long time, but we finally have the results of the Blue MOCs contest ready. This contest asked the members to post old or new MOCs that used the color scheme blue mostly.
Winning MOCs would either get featured in the upcoming Bionicle Paracosmos epic Endless Blue, about a sea quest by Bhukasa to solve the mystery of a ship-based enemy on Mata Nui that seems to know deep mysteries about the Paracosmos Matoran Universe. Many may also get used in a later story, since blue characters ar
Alright, here's the theme I decided on for the next blog contest. This is another 2nd Chances contest and a New MOCs contest. It's the third Paracosmos contest -- winning MOCs will be in my fanfics. Yadda. So what's the dealio wit' da themeo?
Make a blue MOC. Any blue MOC.
It can be a hero, a villain, a morally-questionable, a beast, a titan, a small MOC, anything, as long as it is blue.
The top four winning MOCs will be featured in my next Paracosmos story, Endless Blue (during Bohro
This is a continuation of a tangential in-depth discussion that started in the discussion topic for the new Bionicle Generation 1 Misconceptions project. That topic was not meant for extended debates or the like, so I'm asking participants to continue it elsewhere (by PM or topic is what I suggested... problem with a PM is it can't be viewed by anybody who's curious, and so far none of them have decided to make a topic... it would also be weird to have a bunch of quotes from a different topic in
Beginning of the intro comments copied from the review topic's firstpost: The Bionicle is the bio-chronicle, the records and legends of life of the Agori alien species and its various subspecies, and primarily the artificial sapient lifeforms known as Matoran and the other inhabitants of the Matoran Universe. One of the most important themes in the official Bionicle story is destiny. And such is the stuff of this story. I have sought to tell a brand new story with new mysteries, and yet blend
Okay, so I've been reading a lot of debates about the end of Bionicle, HF, etc. lately and it all gave me a completely random, insane idea. I have no idea where to take it so for now I'm just throwing it out there.
The Bionicle storyline IS continuing. Now, this idea can't fix the desire many have for the return of the comics, more movies, or anything like that. But let's face it, it's extremely rare for an "ended" story, especially based on sets, to continue. So we do have more story.
Wh
No, not really. But wanted to make a point about all this speculation "oh, it's ending, oh it's not" back and forth. Guys.
Always assume you are in the last year of Bionicle. Tell yourself, all the time, "this good thing could end right now; I can't take it for granted." It's better to be prepared for the worst, so that when the best happens, you are pleasantly surprised.
The other way around, you're either "okay" or dissapointed all the time. Not a healthy mindest -- when you take thin
Today the Bones blog presents a four-tiered feature on the official & approved 2008 set images seen in this article. First, enlarged and lighting-fixed images are used here that make judging each piece and the overall set easier. Second, my in-depth objective analysis of the sets is included with each image, as well as my own in-depth subjective personal reactions. Fourth, at the end I will make my customary predictions about how these are likely to sell. If nothing else, I hope the improved
Hiyall and welcome to the list of links to my all-time favorite Bones Blog entries, from the very start loooooong ago. This entry will replace the messed-up and prone-to-disappearing sidebar archive and will be linked in my sig. I've listed slightly different titles here than what are in the actual entries in some cases for clarity's sake. Comedies & Cartoons: Interview: Evil Clock Interview: Evil Lord Survurlode Interview: The Chief Gremlin, Minion Of Survurlode Interview: Gollaga
Obviously I failyoord to keep up the weekly blog thing these past two weeks. Been even more busy than I thought and I just won't have time. So for the time being I'm declaring a mostly-total break from BZP. Will try to still answer simple PMs and contest questions and the like. Still hoping to have all this stuff done by end of April.
Also don't forget about the Blue MOCs contest which is still open!
Well, this semester of college has started up, and now that the first week is over and I have the syllabi and such, I can officially say that I am going to be absolutely swamped. Just a heads up guys that I might not be anywhere near as active as y'all are used to--it would be appreciated if people keep that in mind when considering PMing me about things not vitally important or whatnot.
At this point I'm just hoping I won't have to resign from any of my BZP duties, though I'm almost sure s
About one month left in the General Art contest, and zero, yes, zero entries so far. Are there people out there working on entries? Should I extend the deadline? What? ? Thoughts? I went for the contest after several people expressed interest in entering that theme, so... a little confused.
Art-related updates:Be sure to enter the Monster Mystery Powerpoint Art Contest by noon EST on Tuesday, November 25.
Love the new art contest (from the forum, not my blog ), and I definately plan on entering. Think I know what I'll do -- and of course it will be done in Powerpoint. I'll try not to worry about winning this one. Just for fun.
Two new random example entries in the Monster Mystery contest -- these slapped together in about one hour total. Here's all three example monsters n
My retelling of the entire Bionicle history is fast approaching completion. I have only 15 (planned) chapters (of 90) to go now; the Toa Mahri are entering Mahri Nui for the first (rather unfortunate) time. The biggest hurdle left for my story is missing artwork for many things. I'm doing some of it myself, but continue to have some that I'm offering for any artist out there to do and send me. It'll have to be quick now as I want to get this posting soon. Here's the current (updated from previ
[NOTE TO ARTISTS! Be sure to read the blue text at the end!] Wow I have a blog don't I?! Sorry for forgetting about this for so long. Been very busy. Updates: -Huzzah for Netflix! Have watched all kinds of things, like some episodes of Monk I somehow never saw, the glory of the original A-Team (etc.), Battlestar Galactica (both versions), in progress of watching episodes here and there from every series of Star Trek (never did get to see all the originals -- woot!), and most recently go
Re: previous blog entry:
The Multiverse Guide Art contest is now extended another two weeks. The new deadline is Monday February 1st, midnight EST. That's two extra weeks.
Reasoning being, besides there being so many art slots still untaken, I'm still too busy right now to put everything together for judging, and wouldn't mind another two weeks to catch up with stuff.
In other news, my epic Twisted Island has now been completely posted.
Over the next few weeks, I plan to continu
Enter before noon EST April 28th!
Because I don't quite have time right now to finish that art lessons entry I promised (though it is aaaaalmost done), and 'cuz I need to accounce some stuff:
1) I'm extremely busy with real life stuff right now demanding that I barely spend any time on the computer each week. Mostly nothing super "dreaded" and is stuff I could put off, but I've been putting much of it off for a while now and I refuse to put it off any longer. So that is why yall aren
Irony of ironies, we've got another tie for last winning place in the MOC category. Only one of these two can win. Post which one you want to win.
You have until 11:00 PM EST today to choose.
Dancing Barney: Fencing Scimitar Dorek: Xian Energy Extraction Rifle
I've got all the info noted in one file that I need to make the polls, except a few technical details on some of the entries. Those members have been PMed.
Assuming I get the answers before Tuesday, I intend to launch the polls then or Wednesday. Still gotta make thumbnail images for a lot of entries, but that should go fairly fast.
Should I have yet another extension for the Monster Mystery .ppt art contest that ends in about half an houred at noon today?
I've realized one month was too short a time to be fair in the first place -- should have gone with sommat more like two months. If I do this, editing entries you've already entered is fair game, for the record.
This would be another week only, though, with no chance for another extension. I'll compensate by making sure all future art contests here have two month
