Last year I borrowed a Cintiq from my friend Barry Deutsch and started learning how to use it. One of the exercises I assigned myself was to ink and color in Photoshop a sketch drawn in pencil. I chose James[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a progression of sketches of Gogol as I study his face and head toward the caricature I am aiming for. I am closer, but still not quite there yet. Still, I like these. The main challenge was his[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Digital sketches of some GOP candidates I have been posting to the social media. Ben Carson recently contended that Darwin was influenced by “the Adversary” (i.e., Satan) in theorizing evolution, and religion is a good enough probable cause for searches. Chuck[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Presidents Day is the best time to get a new mattress. Or so the TV keeps telling me.
If you remember the comic strip based on Woody Allen in the 1970s, this makes a little more sense.
Zygmunt Bauman, the sociologist who has pioneered the concepts of liquid society (and related consequences liquid modernity, etc.) is the subject of this portrait for the Cranky Sociologist gallery.
On most issues I try to avoid a partisan perspective, because both parties have played a hand in creating the war-ravaged, poorly regulated, poor-punishing state of our society. One party is sensible enough to view this as a problem,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein is the subject of this week’s Cranky Sociologist caricature. Wallerstein is the primary developer of world-systems theory, which has been invaluable in our modern understanding of globalization and late capitalism. You can read more about him in SocProf’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another entry into the Cranky Sociologists gallery. Karl Marx was much easier to play around with, because unlike most other sociologists, he is incredibly well-known — though, honestly, not through any fault of his own. No doubt he would have loved[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Max Weber is the subject of this contribution to the Cranky Sociologists blog. Along with Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx, he is considered a founding theorist to establish sociology as a unique discipline. Check out this Durkheim vs. Weber table[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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