Can We Get Some Art Lessons?
“Dear BRK, I’ve followed your blog for a few months now, though I had previously retired my hunter. I can’t remember how I found your site but I remember coming back over and over. At the time I was playing my 70 warrior and getting ready to tank kara. Now I run Kara every weekend and have a brand spankin’ new level 33 hunter thanks to reading your posts. You’re humor and joy along with the excitement you seemed to breathe into the hunter class has pulled me back for another round. So mainly, I wanted to thank you for getting me back into my favorite class and bringing back some good memories.
“But I thought to myself, a simple thank you just isn’t enough. So I dusted off the tablet, and present you with a piece of art. Though I guessed at your beard (as your face is oft’ hidden in your videos.) I made sure to show Hobbes in his shiny purple glory at your side. Feel free to chop up the image and use it in any way you want. Or just slap it in a folder somewhere if thats your wish. Its a thank you gift, for giving me joy in class I thought I had long grown away from. Baust and Fritz of Thunderhorn”

It’s gorgeous; we’d never “chop it up”! Thank you so much for this!
We can’t draw at all. Do you people understand how much we wish we had the drawing capabilities our 5-year-old son possesses? We are bereft of any talent in this arena and would love to be able to do either pens or watercolors or graphics art. We have a brand-new Wacom Intuos3 9X12 Graphics Tablet at work and basically use it as a glorified lunch tray right now.
Is there a Painting and Drawing for Dummies, Noobs, and the Completely Skillless book out there? Where’s Bob Ross when you need him?
And don’t say “dead” ’cause Bob Ross would kick your @ss. Or slap it with his brush. But either way, Bob Ross would pwn you.



Kyu on 28 Dec 2007 at 10:51 am #
Bob Ross = God.
Nice pic! It’s cool to see the BRK love spreading out past pixelated fonts.
sinjin on 28 Dec 2007 at 10:55 am #
If you are serious about a good book, “Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain” by Betty Edwards is a great place to start.
luck!
- Eustacius & BhagThera (Ner’Zhul)
Pike on 28 Dec 2007 at 11:55 am #
BRK needs his own gallery exhibit. “BRK in Art”. Or you could always do “BRK on Ice” but I dunno how well that would turn out.
Marylin on 28 Dec 2007 at 12:07 pm #
nice pic!
I used to love drawing when I was at school, but I’m so out of practise it’s annoying me - I should dust off the old ‘how to’ books n see if I can be reminded of how to hold a pencil… *groans*
Bob Ross pwns, I remember sitting with my mum watching his shows. The main memory I have of those shows other than their general awsomeness was that he managed to find a place for a lil ‘critter’ in every picture he did
Ivaldi, Pumbaa and Owl on 28 Dec 2007 at 12:26 pm #
You will need some basics, I absolutely love http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm, that is a tutorial on light and digital painting, that focuses less on teaching you how to draw a person, or a car or whatever, and more of how to put that idea to paper (or your digital canvas as it may be). Anyway check it out, there are several other tutorials there as well. And good luck! Ah, Happy New Year since I will be camping on the Rose Parade right (Ivaldi won’t get to watch fireworks
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Grizelda on 28 Dec 2007 at 12:53 pm #
I second the recommendation for Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It’s a great book, and it helps de-mystify it for folks who probably stopped drawing early on. Basically, drawing is like any other skill: it takes practice! Most of us stop drawing in grade school somewhere, and so we never get past that level of drawing. Keep practicing, even if your drawings look awful at first, and you eventually get good at it. I’m living proof…only really started drawing in earnest around early high school, and I went on to art school and illustration!
(of course, now I code webpages for a living. How things change!)
–Griz (also spotted as Dzuri and Nibbles, of Kargath)
Alnitaq on 28 Dec 2007 at 1:00 pm #
I was gonna mention Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, and then I was gonna second it, but I guess I’m gonna hafta third it instead. It’s an amazing book. Just go check it out in the bookstore and look at the “before” and “after” pictures that students of hers created over the space of a week or so and you’ll be amazed. Well worth it.
Hathorn on 28 Dec 2007 at 3:56 pm #
“We’re going to use a little Hunter Green, and we’re going to put a little bush right here in the corner.
And if you, tell ANYONE, about this bush, I will come to your home, and CUT you.”
–Bob Ross on Family Guy
Katyenka on 01 Jan 2008 at 9:54 am #
Just found the site, and it’s awesome. Many things I knew, many things I didn’t. As a professional artist, I’ll toss in another recommendation for Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. I’m on my fourth copy of the book, having worn out the previous ones. It’s great for beginners, it great to come back to for not-beginners. And if you’re serious about doing the exercises in there, you *will* get better.
Art is learnable. Talent only counts for so much– most of it, like just about anything, is tough work and stick-to-it.
aNTE on 01 Jan 2008 at 9:53 pm #
for whatever its worth - i’ve always felt that the picture of BRK and the 3 monsters in the current splash screen is one the strongest pieces of content on the site.
there’s sort of a friendly insanity to it.