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So after years and years of drawing/inking with mouse and trackpad, I finally got a tablet. It's a Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch, and I love it to pieces. The pen function is pretty fluid, and I've been pleasantly surprised to find that I actually can crank out work much more quickly. The four programmable buttons have been awesome as well. I've set them to toggle between two essential drawing tools, and the save and undo commands. This alone has cut down so much time.

Initial tests aside, my first tablet piece:

Fuck. Yea. Best $47 I ever spent.

But the tablet is not without a few drawbacks. The Bamboo also has a number of multitouch gestures, very similar to the ones found with Apple's Magic Trackpad. However, while the gestures are just as intuitive, they are by no means as smooth. There have been times where the tablet was a bit slow or hesitant with some movements. But overall, it's been a great investment. Inking and Flash and coloring in Photoshop has never felt so...analog.

recent months

damn, has it been a few months already? a few things since then:

-small device certified

-reading, reading, reading

-promoterboaters and detractortrailers

-one to ones!

-workshopping it up

-creative foundations! (finally!)

-obsessed with rilo kiley recently

-ipad 2

-tttumblin. a blog for my arts and crafts.

new parakeet! meet pearl.

i'm still this bird's bitch.

me + richard <3

01152011

more photoshopping. felt like sharing this.

when i can't sleep and it's 2 am

I draw silly self-portraits. My favorite of the batch.

12012010

YEYAH.

possible tattoo sketch

A sketch I did earlier for a possible tattoo. I've been thinking about getting one for a while now, but have had a lot of doubts. Also, I refuse to have anyone else's art on my arm other than my own - so of course whatever I end up with will definitely be something I've created. However, I'm extremely critical...if by some chance I do like some piece I've done, it's rarely for longer than a week before I want to erase its existence and do something better. (I think it's a side effect of the brutal critiques I went through in art school. I have little attachment to anything I make.)

And if you know me, you know I have a peculiar fondness for octopi, which leads me to the above sketch. So far, I like it a lot more than any other sketches I've produced, so we'll see how I feel about it in a week or so.

"Admitting one's flaws."

flash+photoshop | ~2 hrs

I think the fact that I've started drawing again is a sign of how stressed I am these days. Nothing to piss and moan over really, just lots of work and not enough down time. But I'm absolutely in love with how my illustration style has progressed. Still a very digital process, but bringing in more hand rendered elements. I know textures are a sort of cheap trick these days, but the difference they make is totally worth it.

Someone remarked that my human anatomy looks too "withered, wrinkled and unrefined."

Fuck off. I'm an excellent draftsman. If I wanted to do anatomically perfect illustrations, I'd work for a medical journal.