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blackunicorn.org - Doodles, Inspiration and other Fun

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An illustrated blog, journal comic, and general notebook of art- and illustration-related things. Also, occasional pictures of my dog Lily.

Added on: Mar 26th, 2007
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Veronica Guzzardi
Listed in: Artists Comics
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Recent Posts

Holy Crap, A Sketch Dump!

Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 03:16 in art, drawing, Batman, pie, doodles, spock, manatee, peacock, gumby, jerry garcia, lynda barry, felt pens

I don’t remember the last time I had so much work, as well of the prospects of creating more in a pretty short space of time, that a sketch dump would even make sense to do. But something has clearly shifted, and I have neat stuff coming out of...
Little Pixie Peacocks

Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 00:48 in art, painting, bbc, watercolor, ink, paintings, hummingbird, doodles, power animals, spatuletail hummingbird, spatule hummingbird

There was this video that came to my attention earlier this week about an unusual little bird from Peru. The Spatuletail Hummingbird is this tiny little creature (endangered, of course) with only four tail feathers. In the males, two of those four t...
Son of Seamless Pattern Design

Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 02:01 in art, design, animals, vector, patterns, ocean, sea life

I haven’t been posting them, but I’ve been playing with seamless repeating patterns since the beginning of the year. While it’s mostly been flowers and other sort of geometric shapes, there was this one file I started with the inte...
Peripheral Movement Always Startles Me

Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 14:15 in drawing, funny, work, audio, mice, varmints

Some of you may have noticed that I occasionally refer to my place of employment as the TV Farm. That’s because the TV station I work for is located in a metal building on the edge of a field that grazes cattle. We get all manner of field crit...
Moving Forward- Re-Learning Old Stuff

Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 12:47 in art, interesting, vector, Technique, adobe illustrator, doodles

I spent the weekend doing just about anything but drawing. I slept a lot, I watched cartoons, I raked the yard clean of leaves. I think last week was just too much- too busy at work, too emotionally draining- and I needed a vacation from thinking. N...
On the Passing of a Teacher

Posted on Thursday October 22nd, 2009 at 02:19 in art, school, rants, teachers, professor, mentors, hsu, h1n1, good influences, m. wayne knight

I got some devastating news today- my college Graphic Design professor, M. Wayne Knight died from the H1N1 virus early this morning. He was only 60, and had been perfectly healthy otherwise as far as I know. I haven’t had much contact over the ...