I LOVED THIS GAME SO MUCH OMFG
Doesn’t it kind of look like a big, space-shoe?
Testing out Tumblr posts going to Twitter and Facebook. If this works the way I want it to, then I will be posting art here first instead of to all three one after the other.
However, I will also take this opportunity to review Sketchbook Pro, the App I used to paint this nifty spaceship in over the course of the last couple hours. It’s a very nice app, many brushes with a lot of control over their settings, multiple layers with Add, Multiply and Subtract blending and the Transform tools feel great. But despite its name “Sketchbook” it tries to replace the painting functionality of Photoshop or other software by cramming too much into an iPad that can’t handle it. It’s very laggy, even with a fresh document I felt as though my brushstrokes were taking years to reach the page.It’s still very usable up until you add two or more layers, then things like the Undo function begin to take around 5 seconds to register.
Pinning the painting tools and a basic color pallet to the sides is very nice, but (And perhaps I just didn’t try hard enough to figure out how to do this) I really missed being able to change any of the defaults to something I preferred (I make heavy use of the eyedropper tool when blending in my digital painting, often for a single stroke, but in order to use it here I had to tap out of painting mode, then open the Brushes dialogue, and finally tap into the tool there), I’d like to have my own set of brushes to paint with, and not Pencil, Marker 1, Marker 2, Splatter, etc. (I don’t remember).
Now I saw that there was an update to the program, but since the iPad I’m using is owned by the school, the school also owns the app and I don’t have the password (MECA friends, help me out here?) in order to update it. So perhaps some of the annoyances I have with it have been solved one way or another. Either way, I think I need to really work hard to treat this app as a tool for sketching, instead of trying to do more with it than it can handle…despite the fact that it is really trying to get me to really paint on it like I prefer on my Cintiq… I’ll talk about the other app, Brushes soon!
ZeroN - Levitated Interaction Element of Awesomeness
When I was younger, I used to push two magnets together until I found that point where a bubble of repulsion formed between them. With the weak magnets I had access to, I could always overpower the repulsive force and push them together, but I was amazed that there was some unseen magic acting upon two physical objects.
Like all of us, I later learned it was the forces of magnetism at work. The ZeroN project from Jinha Lee at MIT takes that to a whole new level.
By using computer-controlled magnetic field manipulations, a metal sphere is suspended in mid-air. Even more, it can be made to follow complex paths, “remembering” and repeating actions. If that somehow isn’t enough, just wait until he lights it up like an orbiting planet, and demonstrates Kepler’s Laws! Dude blew my mind!
It’s an experiment in challenging how we perceive natural patterns of motion, and whether computers, when combined with materials, can alter the way we interact with the world around us. Most of all, it’s AWESOME.
Jeeze this is cool. Old science. Made new. I approve.
Lights Out: In his latest video, “Because,” animator Cyriak Harris does incredibly disturbing things to his own face (and, by extension, your brain).
“So I found a stupid photo of my face and decided to make a video out of it. Why? Just because,” he explains, without actually explaining why he has inflicted this on all of us.
(Not safe for your already-threadbare grasp on sanity.)
[gawker.]
Cyriak is so awesome.
Another little guy painted on my school iPad. This time in the Brushes app. Not as robust as Sketchbook Pro, but I did spend more time on this one.
Playing around with the iPad that the Maine College of Art Illustration department lent me over the summer. Painting on this thing is fun, not as powerful as my Cintiq, but portability is a definite must. I’ll definitely be posting all sorts of sketches and things over the summer!
Currently writing a term paper on eighteenth century costumes in Disney’s The Beauty and the Beast (1991) when I noticed this little Easter Egg.
On left: close-up screen cap from The Beauty and the Beast (1991)
On right: Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1667, Oil on Canvas!!!
“I’f it’s not Baroque, don’t fix it”
Hell yeah.
The voluptuous Teet Monster. Made for the Monster Show going on in Portland sometime this month.
Oh isn’t he just WONDERFUL!
Most of the time, when I see someone’s monster design or idea full of teeth and claws and tentacles, I just end up thinking “Creature”. In my mind, a Monster is something that makes you incredibly uncomfortable to think about, like Pyramid Head, Slender Man or Donald Trump.
Watercolor over Ink.
Cover designs ideas and concepts for an upcoming book Part 2.
Oh man, this was an interesting project. Working with an actual client in class was incredibly weird and fun. I don’t feel comfortable spilling too much about the title or the plot of the book, I think it doesn’t matter anyway.
Sketches in pencil, final paintings done digitally.
Cover designs ideas and concepts for an upcoming book Part 1.
Oh man, this was an interesting project. Working with an actual client in class was incredibly weird and fun. I don’t feel comfortable spilling too much about the title or the plot of the book, I think it doesn’t matter anyway.
Sketches in pencil,color comp painting done digitally.
FINAL PAINTINGS TOMORROW!
