A few days ago I decided to start make an official break with Adobe in my personal life and work in open source software and other alternatives. I haven’t quit cold turkey. I left myself an Adobe parachute just in case I need it. It’s definitely risk-aversion. Instead of deleting the Adobe Suite from all […]
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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 to incorporate them into your daily work. Sorting through all the apps available can be daunting and the store itself feels like a hoarders paradise of crap. There have been
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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 logo for her new venture. I thought it would be fun to show the entire experience from beginning to end, so I recorded my desktop while I worked. Captured on
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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 I felt like the face was becoming less cartoonish, but I was having problems getting the eyes just right. Here is the video of the screen capture done from the
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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 the Guercino painting that I started some time ago. I uploaded my progress. The video shows both days of work, together. The painting needs a lot of work, but I’m
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Underwear-clad Misty Misty, the character that I’ve been working on for my first Synfig animation, has been only dressed in under garments since her inception. I know that I want a 50s/60s look for her, but so far I haven’t come up with anything. A couple of weeks ago, I was playing around with ideas
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 has these big-eye puppets. I took a break after I discovered that the script was corrupt for the file and I wouldn’t be able to replay the painting. Fortunately, I
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Excited about new technology In the spring, I saw the video below unveiling the new Sketchbook Ink. I was psyched to think that Autodesk has made an app for the iPad that’s resolution independent vector painting. I read the reviews and saw that the only export options were image files and not SVG. For me that wasn’t
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Errors with ArtRage Scripts for iPad Over the past weeks I’ve been singing the praises of ArtRage and their script function for the iPad. Unfortunately, I came up with a painful road block over the past week. I tried running some of my larger scripts last week and came up with a consistent error. One
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Thank yous Two people I met on Flickr who’ve been very kind, inspired and helped me spark creativity. As a repayment, I painted them each a picture of one of their most cherished possessions, their dolls. It’s really nice to meet people online who are genuinely interested in sharing their knowledge. OnePinkHippo and EssHaych are wonderful people
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