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Inkscape and Gimp take the spotlight

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…

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…

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…

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…

Clothes for Misty

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….

Autodesk Sketchbook Ink App Review

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…

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…

ArtRage+iPad+Script Error Reply

An early morning email This AM I had an email waiting for me from Ambient Design regarding the failed scripts made with my iPad. It seems that…

iPad + ArtRage Scripting Woes

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,…

iPad + ArtRage + Script

Better Vimeo Example Yesterday I posted an old video of capturing an ArtRage script on my computer that I created while working on the iPad….

ArtRage: Recording and Running a Script

In ArtRage you can run a script while you are painting. This records every brush stroke and gives you the ability work small (iPad) and…

ArtRage+iPad Painting Progress

An ArtRage Painting Slowly Evolving Here’s current progress of an ArtRage painting I’ve been working on for my friend Elizabeth. She fell in love with…

New ArtRage Illustration for My Website

Finally Getting There I’ve been sitting on this illustration and stalling my segtsy.com site for some time. I’m finally starting to find some time to…

An Example of ArtRage + Illustrator Live Trace

Here is an example for the post that I just wrote on transforming your hand drawn line art to vector art. For this Illustration, I used the…

iPad + ArtRage + Inkscape = Creating Hand-Drawn Type

Hand-Drawn Vector Art Sometime creating vector art can look too mechanical and computerized. It’s nice to create resolution-independent art that feels like it was hand…

Spiro Mode in Inkscape Makes a Perfect Curve

If you ever tried to make a perfect curve in Illustrator, this post is for you I definitely don’t mean to be so negative about…

Bitmap Tracing (live trace) With Inkscape

Tracing in Inkscape In my previous post, I compared the tracing capabilities of Inkscape and Illustrator. With CS6 being released this week, I think it’s…

Adobe Illustrator Live Trace Vs. Inkscape Trace Bitmap

Tracing Images Tracing bitmaps in a vector program like Illustrator or Inkscape can give mixed results. To ensure a good outcome, remember to trace from…

Two New Artrage/iPad Paintings

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…

First ArtRage/iPad Painting Completed

So after a week of working, I was finally able to finish my first painting. It took me a little while to get the hang…

Ipad/ArtRage Testing: Script

Script With Max Resolution Here are the results for running a script at a higher resolution. It did a much better job than when I…