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Oil.
Work in progress.
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I’m a little hurt, Wacom.
Dear Wacom,
I am a loyal customer and have been since my first Intuos. I now have a Cintiq, without which I would be lost. So when you announced the Inkling back in August, I was over the moon. A device that would turn my sketchbook drawings into layered bitmaps and vectors? It sounded too good to be true. All I had to do was wait until mid-September.
I bookmarked that enticing little Inkling page and checked back daily. Picture the dude camping outside of an Apple store a few days before the new iPhone is released. I’m that guy. All of the days that could be construed as mid-September came and went. “Mid-October,” the page said. Ok, I can be patient, I can wait one more month.Mid-October comes and I’m refreshing your page like one of those people who press the elevator button 18 times to get it to come faster. “Mid-November,” your page says to me in a voice I read as somewhat condescending. Ok, I can be patient…
So we are now approaching mid-November, and I do my daily neurotic Inkling check:
Inkling Availability
The Inkling product will be introduced in the USA with limited availability in mid-November. Initial supplies of the product will be used to fulfill a portion of the backlog of orders at Amazon.com, currently Wacom’s selected reseller of the product in the United States. Our Wacom team are working hard to increase the availability of the product over time, and will post updates as information becomes available. We deeply appreciate the patience of our customers as we introduce this exciting new product.
Waiiiiiiit just a minute. Backlog? You mean I could have pre-ordered this on Amazon? You mean that if I had done so, I would have a chance of getting my Inkling mid-November? Why, oh why, didn’t you mention that it could be pre-ordered on that page I’ve been staring at since August? Why isn’t it still on Amazon so I can add myself to the queue? Why didn’t you mention Amazon availability to your mailing list (that I’m on)?
I still love you, Wacom, and I will still (somewhat patiently) wait for the Inkling. But I’m a little hurt.
Refreshing your page and now searching Amazon daily,
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Halloween
In our house, Halloween preparation should really start somewhere around June. It never does. It’s usually mid-October when it occurs to me that I do not have a magic wand that will transform my home into a haunted mansion or myself into an expertly costumed person. So I’m patting myself on the back for starting work in September. Our costume parts and patterns have been ordered and I’ve spent the last few hours painting a gaggle (murder?) of skulls. (Everybody sing!) It’s beginning to look a lot like Halloween. -
Wacom Inkling
I have never, in my life, needed a product as much as this thing, which Wacom just announced.* This trailer for it literally brought tears to my eye. The Inkling (how great is that marketing name? Good job, Wacom) can instantly turn your sketchbook drawings into bitmap or, even more excitingly, vector images (!!!) which can be exported to my two best friends, Photoshop and Illustrator! Maybe this news doesn’t give you goosebumps, but it sure does for me. The only catch is that I have to wait until mid-September, mid-October, mid-November to get my hot little hands on one. I am counting the minutes, Wacom. Counting. The. Minutes.*Ok, this is an absolute lie. Before this I lusted after, and got, my Wacom Intuos 2 followed by my baby, the Wacom Cintiq (pictured above).
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Meditation
The closest I feel to being at peace is when I paint. Specifically oil painting. I don’t know if it’s getting lost in the brush strokes and detail work, if it’s realizing my calling, or if it’s the turpentine fumes, but it’s like meditation for me. I really only feel truly at peace with a brush in my hand and globs of paint on my palette. -
Gaga
Love, love, LOVE me some Gaga. She is looking for a drawing of her, so I drew this as quickly as my little monster hands could.
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Love sTori
I love Tori Spelling. I think she is an incredibly sweet, giving, hard working, and honest person. Though I didn’t watch a lot of 90210 in my preteens, and haven’t seen many of her movies, I actually became a fan reading her books, then watching her reality shows. My current guilty pleasure, Tori & Dean sTORIbook Weddings, is on Wednesday nights at 10/9c on Oxygen, and showcases her talent for throwing spectacular and unique weddings.I drew this either out of sheer geeky fandom, or the fact that I always thought she would be fun to draw. Both are true, really.
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Black swan
This may or may not be loosely inspired by the new Black Swan movie or my lifelong love of ballet. I really should cram myself back into my tights and Grishkos one of these days. -
Slow Friday
Drawing a blowfish, what are you doing? -
Hi.
Welcome to my new sketchblog. This is where you can see what I’m working on, what I’ve finished, random thoughts, and whatever else I feel I must share in blog form.I drew this one for funsies about 6 months ago and just found it floating around my studio. Ok, it wasn’t really floating. More sitting. Perhaps waiting. And now here it is. Ta da!