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 Here are some answers to the questions people ask me most often.
If your questions have gone unanswered or you want clarification please do
email me
Yep, all the drawings are by me - Amanda Crichton.
I look like this which isn't as much of a handicap as you might expect.
Not formally trained in drawing, though its nice of you to think that I might have been. I do have a kind of a film degree from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.
I am now living in Bondi, Sydney once more (after 2 years in Germany). Which is nice. Now I can go and swim in the ocean when I wake up in the morning. Or not.
Background: I tend to make 90 degree career changes every 3 - 5 years, so until about Feb 2003
I was a software developer before that sound design for no budget independent films (some awards, little money), quilt designer, a couple of years
cycle touring in Europe and South East Asia, financial systems programmer, law school dropout. With a bit of lecturing, photography and environmental
activism thrown in at odd moments.
Technique: Since March 2002 I have done all my drawing digitaly with a 6 x 8" Wacom
tablet (which is easily the best bit of tech I have ever bought) on a laptop whose brand I won't mention because the screen on the stupid thing started dieing
almost as soon as I bought it, I couldn't get it fixed while I was in Germany and now that I am home the warranty has run out. Stupid laptop.
Purchase: Prints are available now in the store section, with more prints to follow. print FAQ
Non- commercial use: You are welcome to use my drawings on your site as long as the site is non-commercial and you give me clear credit. Credit would be something like this underneath the image.
Image copyLeft Amanda Crichton of onemoremonkey.com 2003.
Of course, I'm interested to know what happens to my drawings once they enter the wild so sending an email telling me where you
are using my pics will make me happy.
Download: Feel free to download, print out, paint your own interpretation, email to your friends or otherwise enjoy my art just don't sell it
or use it to sell anything else.
Commercial use: Can i use your art on my products or in advertisements for my company?
Possibly it will depend on the company, product, image and fee offered.
Commercial use II: Will you create free art for my products or for advertisements for my company?
No.
Web Design: Will you design, develop, maintain or code my website for me?
Not unless you can convince me that doing so will somehow save the world and or pay my rent for at least a month.
Professional Illustration: I can be hired to do illustrations depending on the project and the fee.
Monkeys: The monkeys came about because I wrote a little program called monkey shakespeare which starts from random letters and then through
pattern recognition, the program learns to write Shakespeare. Very silly. I wanted to do an animated interface but I hadn't drawn much
before so I figured if I set myself a target of quickly drawing a monkey every day or so, I would develop a style, and then I could do the animation.
To stop myself from finessing endlessly and giving up halfway I decided to set myself some rules;
- Try to draw a monkey every day or at least every couple of days.
- Monkeys have to be drawn quickly.
- Every pic started has to be completed.
- And every pic has to be put up.
So lots of monkeys and it turns out drawing the sameish subject over and over is a good way to learn to draw / experiment with style, and people seem to like drawings of
monkeys so more people have seen my drawings than might have otherwise. I'm still not very good at animation and monkey shakespeare
may never get an interface but I have actually produced work that I'm proud of. Which is nice.
What's the plan: My current challenge is to draw a regularly updated comic strip and or write a graphic novel. Which is exponentially harder, intimidating and labour
intensive for me then the monkey challenge. At this stage I'm still experimenting with style and story structure. Comics archive Obviously, I need a new set of rules like the above to
help overcome all the things that get in the way of just getting on with it.
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