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I chose the artist Camilla D'Erirco. She origanally worked in cartoons, and now has a painterly style with a touch of anime. Most of her portraits are of girls and animals. I like the emotions and girly colors she uses in her work.

link reactions

• I checked out Loretta Lux's website, and found her paintings to appear very realistic but with a very dreary, muted color palette. I was fascinated to learn that her works are not paintings, but photographs. Her choice of light, pose, subject, and surroundings bring a very lovely eerie feeling to her pieces. I enjoyed looking at her body of work.
  
• Ordinary comics is a very clever. Simple 'pick-me-ups' can turn a bad day into a good day. I like this artist's devotion to what he does, even if he suffers from poor grammar. There is a lot of wisdom and inspiration to be taken from his daily comics.
  
• The 1000 journals website is very valuable for providing extraordinary 2D artwork. It is an online example of the sketchbook projects we are assigned every week. Its cool to see a little tid-bit of a strangers life and thought process. This site is a very good reference that i will be visiting often.
  

Thanks for the great links!

Helvetica Movie

I never really thought about the fact that actual people design lettering and fonts. This movie got me thinking about all the little details that go into the look of a letter, word, and sentence. Even though it was quite slow, and somewhat boring, so is the idea of the 26 letters of the alphabet. I'm happy i saw a snip-it of this film, but probably wouldn't choose to view it again.