Making enamel pins with mostly-free software
This month I made my first set of pins that are based on an illustration from my upcoming coloring book. I picked one of the…
It’s been a while: taking a blog sabbatical
Earlier this year, I suspended my regular contributions to this blog as an attempt to focus on completing a personal project. My initial intent…
Getting to know Timothée Giet: Krita instructor extraodinaire
Earlier this week, I purchased the Secrets of Krita, a new series of training videos available on the Krita site. Buying the DVD is a great way…
Adobe Offsetting: October 2015
Over the past two years, Krita has become a force to be reckoned with in the digital painting arena. Their ambitious developers have launched two successful…
Affinity Photo FREE ten-day trial
On the heels of the much anticipated release of Affinity Photo this summer, Affinity announced in late August that they’re now offering a free ten-day…
Adobe Offsetting: May & a Krita interview
Spring is in the air, taxes are done, and it’s time to focus on fun stuff—like digital painting! Krita is attempting a second stab at…
2014 iAniMagic winners
Over Thanksgiving week, I was fortunate enough to participate as a judge in Animation Desk’s iAniMagic contest. Animation desk is an animation app that’s available…
Mischief acquired with a new price
About a year ago, I wrote about an innovative and new program called Made with Mischief. It’s a light weight but powerful drawing tool that uses…
A premium Yiynova stylus
One of my previous blog posts helped set Yiynova on a path to create Linux drivers. As a “thank you,” they sent me their new premium stylus. Having Yiynova…
Cheating on my stylus made our relationship stronger
Recently, Ray Frenden posted on his blog about the Ugee pen. He bought one and discovered that it works with Yiynova monitor tablets, Huion tablets,…
Living with less Wacom
Wacom is the ultimate company for tablets. I’ve been using them almost exclusively for over twenty years. Their dominance in the tablet industry is directly…
Inkpad is a free Illustrator on-the-go
There are many art apps in the iPad store. Lots of them are great beginnings, but they’re either gimmicky or you can’t figure out how…
Mischief maker
A great friend and unstoppable artist, Heather Larkin, was G-chatting with me on Wednesday and mentioned new drawing software for the Mac and PC called…
Drawing for Maggie
A close and wonderful friend is starting her first Etsy site and it was my pleasure to help her out and create some illustrations and…
Never Boring with Bohr
Recently, I’ve been busy doing illustration work for my day job at Science News and for friends and their pet projects. All-in-all it’s been a…
New feet and hands for Misty
Today I made some headway and was able to finish Misty’s hand positions for her front view. I think that I’ll be able to reuse…
Clothing Ideas for Misty
In between working on Misty’s new feet and poses over the past weekend. I started trying out different clothing options for Misty. The cover up…
Misty and MyPaint
While I was working on all of Misty’s different poses in Synfig, I got sidetracked and started playing in a sweet open source painting program…
Amnon and Tamar: Day Three
Last month I went to the National Gallery of Art for the third day of painting Amnon and Tamar. By the end of the session…
Amnon and Tamar: Part II
Today I had the afternoon off, so I thought I would go down to the National Gallery and spend a couple of hours working on…
iPad+ArtRage+Diet Coke
A friend wanted me to paint this advertisement for Diet Coke. They did new limited edition packaging geared towards women with an ad campaign that…
New Character & ArtRage Script Error
Starting from a doodle This little guy was created out of being bored yesterday. I don’t know if I’d use him for anything, but it…
Amnon and Tamar—iPad+ArtRage
Painting at the National Gallery Today I had lunch with my friend Denis who works at the National Gallery. After we were done with lunch,…
Love Interest for Misty
Stanly Cumberbun is the new character on the block So with all the work on Misty, I thought that I can’t be the only man…
New Character Design
Misty needs a nemesis—enter Kitty Nikkers While I’ve been working on the different mouth charts for Misty—which I need to post—I started to think of…