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Finger Sketching – 20 minute teapot on iPod touch

admin — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:35:00 +0000

Used Autocad sketchbook app

iPod touch doodle

admin — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 07:04:00 +0000

Just downloaded Autocad Sketchbook app for the new iPod touch I got for Christmas… it’s a bit tough using one’s finger on a small screen (even with the pinch & zoom capabilities). We’ll see how detailed one can get.

Let them eat vinyl

admin — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 06:16:00 +0000

I made this for my husband’s book reading – from his first published book, Sects, Love, and Rock & Roll.

One cake was chocolate, the other vanilla. Both were filled with a homemade berry compote and buttercream layer, then decorated with more buttercream icing. To get that black vinyl look I added quite a lot of dye… turns out it’s a bad idea if your teeth stain easily (but delicious nonetheless!)

Gobble Gobble!

admin — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 21:07:00 +0000

Although Canadian Thanksgiving falls a month before American Thanksgiving, I’m still wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving today!

Done in Photoshop

Caricatures!

admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:30:00 +0000

Here are some caricatures from a wedding on Vancouver Island that I did over the long weekend. What fun! I’m available in the Vancouver area if you want to hire me!

Two days in a row…

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:01:00 +0000

I’m making up for lost posts here.

This is based on the following passage:

“It is a dreary, desolate winter scene. There is a dark, stormy, wintery sky, bare trees, and brown grass and dead weeds, with patches of sow over them. On a leafless tree at one side of the picture is an empty and snow-covered nest, and on a branch near sits a little bird, and drive it to some fairer clime, but this bird is sitting there in an attitude of perfect contentment, and has its little head bravely lifted towad the sky, while a winter song is evidently about to burst forth from its tiny throat.”

- The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life by Hannah Whithall-Smith

The original sketch was done with Prismacolor colored pencil, then scanned in and colored using a combination of Photoshop and Corel Painter Essentials 4.

Comics at work

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:36:00 +0000

Yes, I get to draw comics at work. (This one is of a more technical persuasion…)

Fruit Galore

admin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:21:00 +0000

Featured in this month’s issue of This Great Society, a few of my pastels of that globed fruit we all look forward to sinking our teeth into during the warm months:

Robot tales

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:53:00 +0000

Today’s image:

A short story about COREY the robot. (The original is on the MAKE Technologies blog)… my first foray into writing and illustrating a book for children and/or tech industry geeks. This was all done in Illustrator.

Click on the pic to read the entire tale!

fun with augmented reality

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:04:00 +0000

According to those in the know, augmented reality is the future for user experience on the web. I decided to see how it works, using the company logo from MAKE Technologies (where I’m working right now). Turns out it’s pretty darn cool!

Click below to watch the video.

This was done using Google Sketchup (a 3D rendering program) and a plugin from ARMedia (both free to try).