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 a nemesis for Misty. I came up with Kitty Nikkers, her mother. Kitty is an old DC society woman that’s put off by her daughter’s career decisions and lifestyle. She […]
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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 there was a problem with the script choking while recording. Although they are not able to fix my corrupt scripts, they’re going to look into correcting the issue for upcoming
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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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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. Here is a clearer example that I posted last night. It’s weird to watch how indecisive I can be when I work. I change directions on painting the face at least 5
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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 to replay the script at a larger size. You need the desktop version of the app in order to run the script. I didn’t even know that this was a
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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 the new Diet Coke commercials abroad and asked if I could paint one of the ads for her. I’ve been working on it in my spare time—which hasn’t been often.
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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 work on my own marketing materials. Hopefully I’ll be closer to the goal of having my site online at the end of the month. I came up with this idea
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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 Modbook, ArtRage, and Illustrator. Through making this art, I learned that the larger you make your file, the better the auto (live) trace. If you want to create your image
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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 drawn. No matter if you use Illustrator, Inkscape, or even Corel Draw, you can easily bring your hand back into your design, giving your final result a hand-drawn vibe. In the past my
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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 Adobe. It does some wonderful things. Currently I’ve been learning about Adobe’s digital publishing suite. No other software that I’ve found so far is doing something similar and it gives
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