Tag Archives: graphics tablet

digital painting art for open-source book covers

Digital painting illustrations for classic out-of-copyright books. I was surfing the Internet looking for outlets for the artistic talent on display at Starbright illustrations, and as I was clicking around I found the websites of a few mainstream illustration agents, such as The Artworks here, and I noticed an interesting thing. These mainstream sites didn’t [...]

The Hatch Dragon Illustration, Saved for Web thanks to the GIMP Plugin Registry

  This week we internet artists are being challenged with the word “hatch”. Now of course this is going to produce one or two images of dragons hatching from eggs, produced by the more fantasy, science fiction and role-playing game minded – like me – but it could also be associated with a hatch in [...]

Change Inkscape’s interface language the easy way thanks to Rarst.net, and a very nice Photoshop brush for graphics tablets.

Photoshop can make some very nice natural looking and intuitive marks with a graphics tablet – I’m using the “Bamboo Pen”, which is the cheapest available in my parts. It does require some tinkering and I was having a hard time of it, when a commenter on the post containing my first graphics tablet image [...]