Tag Archives: linux

Spaceship Illustration, Early Stages in Inkscape

I’m slowly – very slowly – getting on with stuff. I’m adding vector shapes on top of one of my spaceship sketches, as I promised to do in an earlier post. I’ve already drawn about thirty shapes on to the sketch to represent such things as hull plates, greebles and other surface detail. I had [...]

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 [...]

On Mandravia now but my Wacom Bamboo CTL 460 won’t work

I have been off line for quite a while now , something like three weeks actually – an eternity for me. But where on Earth have I been? Have I been working on lots of new illustrations? Erm, well, no. My absence has been hardware related, oh and my translation “day job” got in the [...]

UNetbootin – Puppy Linux – The Geek vs The Dead Laptop

In an epic battle like that of Hemingway’s The Old man and the Sea, I’ve been locked in combat with an old and recalcitrant laptop – using UNetbootin – Homepage and Downloads as my metaphorical fishing rod. The big problem was that the laptop had had it’s operating system wiped and had a dead CD [...]