I recently downloaded the latest drawing app available for the iPhone. I have not been a huge fan of the others as they never felt quite right. Autodesk seems to have offered up something truly good, Autodesk Sketchbook Mobile.
The main difference I felt between Autodesk’s offering and Brushes was that Sketchbook lacked the ‘vector-esc’ functionality which brushes relies on and instead implemented a system where the data is all bitmap. Brushes uses XML data to draw, though it works well it doesn’t feel all that natural or responsive. Also Sketchbook carried over its rather intuitive tool set from its desktop offering Sketchbook Pro. Over all Sketch book is a really solid offering and definitely worth the $2.99 cost.
Check out the painting I did in Sketchbook Mobile (click to view the full res).
I originally saw this on digg then on web monkey and thought that it was an interesting warning/humor/comment on freelance and things to watch out for. That said I thought it would be fun to add my top ten. I stole some of the better ones from that site ;) That said here are my top 10 freelancing red flags:
10. He asks if you can make a sketch or mock something up because he has a few other artists who he is also looking at.
9. He bemoans the last person he worked with on this was a disaster and is looking for someone who can deal with his type of management.
8. There isn’t much money for his job (actually only enough for a McD’s sandwich) but asks if you think that he could pay you in stock?
7. He asks if the deposit (which is supposed to be non-refundable) refundable?
6. He can’t manage to pay the deposit on time.
5. He mentions in passing that he sometimes I forgets to take his medication.
4. He talks a little too much about his kids and want to know about your dating life.
3. He saw “some movie” and wants the animation too look like it, but is floored when you give them a lowball price and wants you to “come down a bit”.
2. He calls himself CEO of his own production company which only has 1 employee.
1. He talks about all the “people” he knows in animation (or art) and name drops then gives you a look of pity when you don’t share in the fact that you don’t know these people.
Have you ever wanted to use more brushes than Photoshop has? Do you dislike Painter because its interface drives you nuts? Well have I got the site for you, a co-worker of mine found this the other day. We got brushes!!
First things first, I am posting from that new wonderful little iPhone app that came out for Wordpress. That said, it’s here to get me to post more often.
Today a few of my coworkers and I shirked out Nickelodeon duties and made our way over to the Children’s Museum of Mannhatten. My new boss was also in our little our group. We went to go see it’s small exhibit of original Golden Book illustrations.
Wow I waited a real long time to update my site this time. It’s not like I was busy making money or anything… actually I am not being sarcastic, I was working on the painting on and off that’s on my home page.
It took about 40 hours of work in all and the final size of the PSD was a whopping 720 MB! But now its done. A little about it, its from the anime that I have spoken about before, Juuni Kokkie, aka Twelve Kingdoms, and this is the main character. I wanted to do this as an illustration exercise, I saw another illustrator do the same with Nausicaä, and I figured I would give it a try. Over all I am happy with it, though I think that fabric could be better, I will have to try harder on the next one I do.