Hand lettering practice sheet (Taken with instagram)
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Don MacDonald
I am an artist who lives in Boston. I like drawing and painting things on paper, I like history, and I like comics. You can totally follow me @don_macdonald if Tumblr is not enough for you.
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1592 (Taken with instagram)
Fenway Park, rain stopped (Taken with instagram)
![Ask Machiavelli reminds us that it is Machiavelli’s birthday with this awesome drawing and post by @meagkhan:ask-machiavelli:
Today is May 3, 2012, and that means it’s Niccolo Machiavelli’s 543 birthday!
Here are my personal favorite facts about Niccolo:
He had seven children and a foster son.
The letters he exchanged with friends were famously vulgar and they told him things like “I hope you shit blood forty thousand times,” and “you are a latrine cover.”
He could play the lute [according to Machiavelli e la Musica (Rivista italiana di musicologia)].
He was charged with heterosexual sodomy with the prostitute La Riccia (although the accusations were dropped).
He was supportive of his friends’ (Francesco Vettori, among others) relationships with other men; “He who is deemed wise during the day will never be considered crazy at night, and he who is esteemed a respectable man [uomo da, bene], and is worthy, whatever he does to lighten his heart and live happily renders him honor, not blame. Rather than being called a bugger or a whoremongerer, one says he is a man of broad interests, easygoing, and a good fellow.”
He was vulgar and hilarious: “To put it more clearly, given your puritanical disposition, if I— who handle and care about women— had chanced to enter the room, as soon as I had gotten the drift of the situation, I would have said, ‘Ambassador, you are going to be ill; I don’t think you’re allowing yourself any diversion; there aren’t any boys here, there aren’t any girls here; what kind of fucking house is this anyway?’”
Happy birthday Niccolo!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3fkm0BYQK1rty5lwo1_250.png)
Ask Machiavelli reminds us that it is Machiavelli’s birthday with this awesome drawing and post by @meagkhan:
Today is May 3, 2012, and that means it’s Niccolo Machiavelli’s 543 birthday!
Here are my personal favorite facts about Niccolo:
- He had seven children and a foster son.
- The letters he exchanged with friends were famously vulgar and they told him things like “I hope you shit blood forty thousand times,” and “you are a latrine cover.”
- He could play the lute [according to Machiavelli e la Musica (Rivista italiana di musicologia)].
- He was charged with heterosexual sodomy with the prostitute La Riccia (although the accusations were dropped).
- He was supportive of his friends’ (Francesco Vettori, among others) relationships with other men; “He who is deemed wise during the day will never be considered crazy at night, and he who is esteemed a respectable man [uomo da, bene], and is worthy, whatever he does to lighten his heart and live happily renders him honor, not blame. Rather than being called a bugger or a whoremongerer, one says he is a man of broad interests, easygoing, and a good fellow.”
- He was vulgar and hilarious: “To put it more clearly, given your puritanical disposition, if I— who handle and care about women— had chanced to enter the room, as soon as I had gotten the drift of the situation, I would have said, ‘Ambassador, you are going to be ill; I don’t think you’re allowing yourself any diversion; there aren’t any boys here, there aren’t any girls here; what kind of fucking house is this anyway?’”
Happy birthday Niccolo!
( I’m really sorry to not be answering more questions recently, but I really wanted you to know that I appreciate every single reblog, like, or question I get! Thank you all so very much. )
Look at Machiavelli. Even the birds love him! What a great drawing.
Portrait of the artist (Taken with instagram)
Edward II and Gaveston (Taken with instagram)
Discoveries made in your sketchbook can and should find their way into your paid work. - Make errors. Try new media. Cheesy and obvious-sounding, but true. -Set out on a page having no clue where you’re going or what you’re doing. - Try adopting a stream-of-consciousness approach to your sketchbook. The work need not be “finished” or comprehensive. If you find you are stuck, simply draw what is in front of you, faces, or start with random marks on a page and see where they lead.
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(via machinery)
Just posted a new page. Click on this panel to see the whole thing.
Australia Day at HBR. Check out the Vegemite sandwiches! (Taken with instagram)
