The tree lobster, once thought to be extinct, lives only on a rocky outcropping in the Tazmanian Sea. Isolated from outside influence for hundreds of years, they have perfected a variety of delicious blended drinks unlike anything else in the world.
Had this interview with illustrator Claire Robertson on The Setup open in NetNewsWire when I was in the mood to put into practice some Photoshop painting techniques I’d been learning about over on Ctrl+Paint. The free Digital Painting 101 series and the $10 Basic Photoshop Rendering Series were full of clever techniques for working with layers and blending along with fundamental concepts of light and shadow.
Just keeps swerving from one side of the road to the other. Make up your mind.
Playing around with drawing and painting in Manga Studio 5 with Ray Frenden’s brushes. It’s got a pretty great brush engine for an $80 piece of software, and, despite the name, you can use it to draw things other than giant breasts.
Playing around with ArtRage some more. I liked how it allowed for the smooth blending of colors on the characters and the creation of varied dry-brush-like textures over the background surfaces
