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fantasy GIMP illustration of a dragon

Today I’ve been painting dragons. Specifically a forest dragon. It’s a very impressionistic illustrative picture, very painterly, but it was entirely created with GIMP – and of course my trusty graphics tablet. I know I sing the praises of my Bamboo graphics tablet every post, but it really is great and compared to most other [...]

Love Birds Valentine Vector Image with Inkscape

This image is called Love Birds, and it is, of course, in honour of Valentine’s Day. I’m focusing on producing images in Inkscape right now. Since the death of my XP laptop and my consequent inability to use my new Bamboo graphics tablet – Linux just doesn’t like it (even my brand spanking new Mandriva [...]

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 [...]

Sketching in Photoshop with my new Bamboo tablet, and some Scifi Comic Books

The word this week on Illustration Friday was music, and of course I wanted to do a quick sketch with music, but also with my usual sci fi elements. This time I included a robot playing the trumpet in the sketch. The sketch was done with my new “Bamboo Pen” graphic tablet, and it makes [...]

3d editorial illustration for article on internet piracy and copyright article

This is my latest editorial illustration for Dragonbat (my illustrator/Guardian reader rants and sketches blog). I’m writing an article about copyright on the internet, and as usual I wanted a cool illustration to accompany it. The article itself isn’t finished yet – pressures of actual work that brings me real cash money, rather than the [...]

Magnify Monkey, Illustration Friday

It’s Illustration Friday time again, and although I usually just search out an image from the dark recesses of my hard drive to use as the challenge picture, this time I have created something entirely new in honor of the occasion. I hope you you enjoy my stuff, you can see more 2D vector art [...]

Blender sculpt mode is easy and super cool

  This Blender 3D tutorial has really helped me with my latest problem. The problem was that no matter what I did the body of the 3D cat mesh that I’ve been working on refused to look like anything other than a piece of hexagonal metal. I desperately needed to smooth it but I didn’t [...]