For October I decided to support a wonderful free resource instead of my usual software endorsement for this month’s Adobe Offsetting. As an artist, it’s always helpful to acquire quick visual escapes which provide reference and inspiration for future creations. The Digital Comics Museum (DCM) provides that immersion with a catalogue of thousands of downloadable golden-age […]
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I was hoping it was still September somewhere in the world yesterday morning when I made my contribution to Adobe Offsetting. I wanted to give to a new project, but I couldn’t help but to give Krita more props for all their hard work over these past months. Instant tranformations Krita has been hard at
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Last week, my Alupen Digital stylus arrived in the mail. I wasn’t expecting receiving the pen to ship until the end of September. It was a pleasant surprise to get the pen early. Unwrapping the magic The pen is packaged quite nicely and comes with a little mini manual. It didn’t take long to load
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I thought that I’d share some of the before and after shots from the photo shoot that I was just on. Cade Martin was the photographer. I’ve used him on other shoots and he still remains to be my all-time favorite for photography magic. Cade really commits to a shoot, finding the most extravagant and
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Sometimes the second time is the charm. Last Friday my friend Mike (@lungching) came over to the house to help me install the Yiynova monitor tablet for Ubuntu. Yes, you heard me right—the Yiynova driver for Linux! This was our second attempt to install a Yiynova driver onto my laptop. We tried to install the
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I tried to see if I could get a Alupen Digital Stylus before its release for review, but came up short. A representative from Just Mobile responded to me quickly and was very nice—letting me know that they’ve had many requests and unfortunately cannot fulfill everyone and remain a profitable company. The Alupen Digital is
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A couple of weeks ago I discovered a set of plug-ins that it seems everyone knew about but me. I was overseeing a photo shoot with Cade Martin for work. He was shooting the cover and feature story for our magazine about the science behind the Paleo diet. Working with Cade is great and he’s my
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It was difficult to come up with what to support for this month. Do I find another software to support? Do I spend time looking for artist projects on Kickstarter to get behind? Or do I reinvest in software development that I’ve given to in the past? The problem with trying to figure this out
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My first experiences typing as a child was with a cast-iron Underwood. It weighed what seemed to be over a hundred pounds and had ebony black keys that were circular and each sat on their own metal pedestal. The typewriter was more an expression of form than function at time. Don’t let it’s monolithic girth
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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, and other UC-logic tablets. Frenden thinks it’s one of the best styli he’s ever used. With that kind of review, I had to purchase one and give it a try. The price
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