Trying something new with the shading here. Also, the rainy season has started in Minnesota again. Had hail earlier this week, and today a downpour. It is nice to be spared from the heat, though.
Beautiful spring weather is here again. It’s nice to be able to go outside again without having to bundle up. I just finished reading Of Mice and Men. It’s a really good story about two itinerant farm workers living during[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I just discovered the ‘line smoothing’ setting on my paint program – and it makes drawing so much easier. It’s almost like having a magic checkbox for ‘draw better’. It acts by smoothing out your strokes so that lines[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I’m listening to old episodes of the Mel Blanc show. You probably know him as the voice of nearly every character from the classic Bugs Bunny cartoons. Well, he also had his own sitcom radio show where he plays[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Got the latest upgrade for PaintTool SAI. Frankly, I can’t tell much difference. Which I suppose is a good thing (or at least not a bad thing).
Looks like winter is finally on the wing. The temperature forecasts are climbing and with luck there will be a melt by the end of the week. I next up in books, I recently finished The Mysterious Stranger by Mark[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back to these two again. Been watching Kitchen Nightmares lately. (For those who haven’t seen it, an ex-football star turned chef visits failing restaurants and tries to turn them around – mostly by insulting people.) It’s really cheesy and over-the-top[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…