I recently purchased one of these Pantone Huey monitor calibration gizmos to enhance my on-screen ability to proof colors for accuracy when printing. In short, it’s awesome and worth every penny. Read on for more… Continue reading
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MAD cartoonist Tom Richmond’s Coloring Tutorial
MAD Magazine cartoonist/caricaturist Tom Richmond has an awesome tutorial on his site about his working methods for getting his line art into finished color works of art.
New cartoon illustration work posted
I suppose I should also mention here that I have recently updated my site with some recent cartooning projects. Page Two of my illustration section can be found here.
A few new Hot Rod/Odd Rod style monsters, including the super cool scooter hot rod creature, a cute puppy dog, a sexy couple, a nerd super hero, a Donald Trump-esque fat cat rich guy and mor- actually that’s all for now.
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Quit Photoshop to save your custom Actions
Arrrrrggggghhhhhh!!!!!!
You just fine tuned a custom action in Photoshop to, say, convert an image to CMYK, resize without resampling to 300 dpi and save as a .psd file, to like, save a bunch of time.
Then, to your dismay, Photoshop crashes because of the 7,492 Dashboard Widgets and shareware doodads you have running simultaneously (even though you know better).
And your custom Action is GONE.
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“Electric Frankenstein” Cartoon Poster Art
Very soon, Sal Canzonieri of the band Electric Frankenstein will be publishing a massive concert poster/rock art book, and a piece of mine created specifically for the tome will be included. Very cool stuff! Due out fall/winter 2006.
Check out the blurb Dark Horse Books is using to promote (via one of Sal’s posts on GigPosters.com)…
Letter to the Editor published in Layers magazine…
Although you can’t view the letters online, my letter to the editor was published in the Jan/Feb 2006 issue of Layers magazine ( a very cool mag for Adobe software users/geeks), where I expose to the entire world that I don’t use the most current graphics software.
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PEZ MP3 player logo design
All my gadget RSS feeds are a-buzz with the news that the PEZ MP3 player is finally available, and the logo was designed by me. I’m partially, non-credited famous! Yow!
The guy who created this officially licensed PEZ MP3 player — which is actually a real PEZ dispenser that has an MP3 player inside — is a stay at home dad, and a nice guy as well. He started the project up as a hobby, and from internet buzz he started thinking, “What if…” and today it’s a reality.