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doodlin’

Found this blog after looking at other people’s sketches on Flickr. doodlin’: LittleMonsters_Red3Eyes is a pretty cool doodle fish with 3 eyes. Check it out. Any hardcore sketchers out there who can recommend other good sketch blogs? I want to hear more about what tools everyone is using to doodle digitally.

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Doodling…

So I think I’m going to try to get a sketch a day up on this blog, now that I have the tablet and can have a straight to digital workflow. I’m considering penning a comic too. The workflow I imagine is taking real life reference pictures, organizing them in Comic Life into an actual [...]

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Thatcher Sketch

Using ArtRage 2 and my Wacom tablet.
UPDATE: I worked some more on the sketch. Check it:

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Good software for drawing / art / animation?

I’m on OS X. What does everyone use?
I bought Art Rage a while back and am digging it. I’m downloading the demos for Anime Studio 5 and Manga Studio 3 from e-frontier. Anyone use these? Any recommendations?
Anyone used Lineform from Freeverse? Should I just buy Adobe and get it over with?

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Loving this Wacom Tablet

So I bought a Wacom tablet 4×6 and I’m absolutely in love with it. I used Art Rage 2 to load my old pen and ink of Beckett as a reference image that I could trace and sketch upon. As a result, I have the above rough sketch of Beckett with a corrected nose from [...]

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This is crazy…

Very cool video of a “speed-painting” of John Locke from Lost. I wonder how fast this was actually done and how much it was sped up.

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Sonja perched on Thatcher


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Thatcher play date

We took Thatcher with us out to Long Island today to visit with our friends Kim & Steve and their puppy Seamus, who is a Portuguese Water Dog. He’s the same age as Thatcher although about 5 times the size.
Check out the full set of pictures of these two disproportionately sized dogs chasing each other [...]

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Roar!

Okay, so really it’s a yawn, but it’s a cute picture of baby Mike with his dad:

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Purple & Brown

[via Drawn!]

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Which would you buy: Wacom Tablet, Cintiq, or Modbook

Note: I’m not buying any of these right now; I’m just thinking aloud.
So beyond web me and professional me, there’s me the artist (which it just so happens is probably the most me me, if that makes any sense). My mother is a painter and I’ve been doing art my entire life, was in private [...]

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SNOW!


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What should I get Laser-etched onto my MacBook?

This:

or this:

Since it is a black MacBook, I’m not entirely sure either one will look as good as I’d like.

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Blank canvas

This weekend, Kristin and I went by Michael’s and I picked up this 4′ x 3′ canvas on sale.
All that white waiting for me to make something out of it. I’m excited!

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Mannish Boy


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MacBook


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I like this effect.


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Moo mini-card business cards

Check it out:

I took twenty of my pictures from Flickr and made them into mini business cards, using Moo. Awesome.

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Thatcher walk pictures

Thanks to some good friends getting me an overly generous and uncalled for going away gift over at Netscape, I have a new 50mm lens and monopod for my Nikon D70 to play around with, so today when we went to take Thatcher for her walk, I brought the camera along and took a *lot* [...]

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Lensbaby shot of Thatcher

I could have used more light and it’s slightly out of focus, but this picture of Thatcher that I took with my new Lensbaby turned out pretty cute, in an impressionistic sort of way.

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