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 to learn the basics of how to use Krita for digital painting while also supporting their further development. Lead developer of Krita, Boudewijn Rempt, is proud to add Secrets to […]
Getting to know Timothée Giet: Krita instructor extraodinaire Read More »
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 correlated to their pursuit for building quality products. With that quality and exclusivity comes a hefty price tag. In the past year I was looking to upgrade my desktop workstation with
Living with less Wacom Read More »
A couple of weeks ago I saw an advertisement for an event on Google Plus. It was for an animation workshop using open-source software presented by Ricardo Graça. The only problem is that the workshop will be held in Rio. They will be capturing the upcoming event on video but the lecture will be in Portuguese.
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I’m right at the wire, but I got my donation in for January. I ultimately decided to give money to Inkscape™. It’s one of the best vector drafting tools and it’s saved me numerous times while at work. Why not give back and donate some money. Inkscape vs. Illustrator There are definitely benefits for using either
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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
Inkpad is a free Illustrator on-the-go Read More »
Did you ever do something stupid like drive your car for two weeks with the emergency brake on without realizing it, resulting in a damaged car and emotional psyche? A similar thing happened to me with Synfig this week but the only problem was that the emergency brake was not in clear sight and it
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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 Mischief. It’s groundbreaking vector-based drawing with a touch of deja-vu. Test driving Mischief I have to admit. Using Mischief was a lot of fun. The infinite zooming was really cool
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
Drawing for Maggie Read More »
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 lot of fun and I’ve tried to make it a point to push myself stylistically and with software. For the 100th Anniversay of Neils Bohr’s quantum atom, I was tasked
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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 I’ve been working on Misty as a character for some time now. When I work in public spaces like Starbucks, I feel kind of like a perv. It’s sad that
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