Blogs that inspire me.

Kate Beatons Hark! a Vagrant http://beatonna.livejournal.com/
And Zac Gormans Magical game time http://magicalgametime.com/
are two blogs that I follow personally and enjoy looking at frequently. Both have a very simplistic but different comical  drawing styles that I love. Their blog styles also mirror that, with a plain white background that at times make their illustrations look like they're merged with the blog or floating, it just completely fits and doesn't distract the audience from looking at the illustrations (something I have been trying to do in my blog.)

Something I find special about Zac Gormans game related comics is that I know what the references are, and that quite a few of his comics have a animated aspect in them. That's something I'd love to have a go at, especially for my blog, as I wouldn't really be able to put a simple animated comic like that anywhere else. He also posted information about a collab for publishing a zine (about a certain game) that I'm interesting in maybe submitting for. SO I may try making something for it to send off to him.

by Kate Beaton

Kate Beatons blog parodies so many books, but she does it in a way so that you don't have to know anything about that book to make it funny. Another thing that I noticed that she posted on her blog was that she'd sent some scans of her work without the dialogue to Japanese students that were learning English for them to fill out in English. The results were comical themselves with the grammer mistakes that took place. But an idea and side projects like that are really interesting and something that I would love to do and blog about.

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Normally I'm more used to the fancy layouts Tumblr uses, so I've been hunting around for blogspot based blogs for some inspiration on what I could achieve with blogger instead.
So I found http://drawnanddevoured.blogspot.com/ which again like the other blogs have illustrations that merge with the blog perfectly, but also has a blog title banner that has been illustrated and been cropped as a rectangle with curved edges, which makes it look professional and sleek. Another thing I like in these blogs, that I have done with my blog as well, is linking up on the side collumn- the other websites that my portfolio can be viewed or purchased.