Today, Saturday February 14th 2009, marks the 1/4 millionth hit to my site… wow… talk about showing the love!
“Thank you” to all that have continued to to encourage and support me. I really do feel the best is yet to come.
-Shane.
You asked for it… you got it.
You can now subscribe to my blog… just click the link on the side bar and hook yourself up!
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I am loving this app… its like turning your iPhone into a mini Wacom Cintiq
It’s called “Brushes” and its on sale for $3. Yes, I sacrificed a Starbucks coffee drink just to get this app… Actually, no I didn’t… I got them both. I am greedy like that.
I really love getting things in the mail (other than bills) Sometimes, I will purposely not buy a book at Chapters just so I can order it online… and pretend like I don’t know what it is when I come home to that brown, slightly damp, cardboard wrapping. And it was with that thought in mind that I bit the bullet and bought a subscription to one of my all time favourite (and extremely overpriced) magazines, ImageFX. One of these days I am going to get a piece of my art published in this mag…
If you like digital art, take a look at this mag… its great.
No, I have not fallen off the face of the planet. I have been up-heaving my life lately though, and I am happy to say I have finally settled down. I moved recently from the suburbs (yuck) of Toronto, into the city for the first time in my life… and I LOVE it. There is so much life and energy here, I regret not doing it years ago. The whole process consumed me entirely for most last year. I have neglected my art. Shame on me.
I intend to change that for this upcoming year and here’s how:
1. I want to draw something of value every day (despite working full time fixing stupid computers.)
2. I am seriously thinking of going back to an Art School here in the city or at the very least start attending life drawing classes again…
3. I am determined to produce something of a professional calibre and hopefully have it published.
4. I want to take an active role in reinvigorating the infamous Toronto SketchJam’s so many of us loved going to over the years.
So there you have it. Expect to hear and see much more from me in 09.
So this digital painting has some anatomy issues that I should have noticed before painting it up. I have to also figure out how to sharpen up these paintings a bit… still too blurry and maybe add a punch more colour. That being said, I am happy with this painting. I wasn’t intending to go this far with it, but am glad now that I kept coming back to it.
Hope everyone out there in Internetland likes it, and as usual I would be grateful for any criticisms for the next one that I will be starting soon.
Okay… I have posted about 4 or 5 new pages out of my sketchbook that I could bear to publicly show. I need to do something different… I am getting into that drawing rut where I seem to draw the same pose over and over again… so I whipped out some reference pictures and started “doodling” on my Wacom tablet:
I am just about to battle my great nemesis… colour. I’ve got a great tutorial I dug up from an old Corel Painter magazine done by Dan Cox that I am struggling through right now…
I added the first 3 pages of my sketchbook to the site. I would also like to say hello to all the Imagevue people who have been checking out my site. I am seeing a huge number of visitors from there.
Lots of changes made to the site…
A number of people have expressed a few navigation issues with the old site… I hope the changes are to everyone’s liking.