I found this via FreewareGenius. Now, if you are looking for a simple interactive drawing game, this is it.
Granted, you aren’t drawing anything more than simple shapes, but it’s still pretty fun.
Check out the screenshots and download it here on the author’s site.
I’ve been playing this yesterday and really, really enjoyed the break it gave me.
I hope you enjoy playing it too.
I just received this art submission from J. Reinartz along with this note:
Hello,
A while ago I was really into digital art. I’m painting in oil pastels at the moment. I did a series of abstracts in addition to some digital art portraits I find the ability to layer images the most satisfying part of digital. I mainly use illustrator and photoshop. I had an old tablet that I never could become one with. I’m sure the newer ones are much better. What do you think?
J.Reinartz
J, I love the work you sent here below. Many times when an artist picks up digital to any degree, it’s like starting over from scratch rather than an extension of their work.
I too love being able to work in layers to achieve certain effects. That was a totally new concept to me when I began working in the digital form.
As for the tablets. They are much better than they used to be. I had tried an old graphire before and found myself hating it. With the intuos3 they have really improved to the level that it’s worthwhile having one in your art arsenal.
If you have some work you’d like to share with us, submit it by emailing william@b5media.com I’d love to post your work too.
I’ve been reading some interesting articles lately about art and artists who are being represented in various places.
I have come to the conclusion that art doesn’t necessarily have to be good (as per my opinion) to be worthwhile or to make the artist famous.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (See link) creates work that I would classify as being on the level of a three-year-old given paint and tarps to work with. They are crude, arrogant paintings that have little or no aesthetic value (once again "in my opinion").
An office building in San Francisco apparently has some issues with Ferlinghetti’s work as well.
(The building managers had met) months ago to talk about the artworks that would be right for the space and "thought they had an understanding as to what was being installed. But it turned out to be things that were not appropriate for the space. Several major tenants expressed their concern that nudity was not appropriate for a business setting. So we asked them to remove the art and replace with other pieces by Mr. Ferlinghetti."
But it remains that Ferlinghetti’s work is valued by some and hated by others. This is of course understandable. But how can anyone become so known for such a work.
Planning, Perseverance and mainly lots of ambition can take an artist (even the worst artist) from nothing to fame.
So, lesson learned. Your work. Even your worst works are valuable. Just insist that they are "worthy", get a gallery to represent you and go for it. More than anything try new things, go wild and create. Find a style that works for you and continually refine it, adding to it as you go.
(please bear in mind that some of this is sarcasm, albeit with an element of truth)
Rindy Sam probably doesn’t stand a chance in court but I must confess a blank canvas looks pretty inviting to me as well.
Being that it’s absolutely white must be a form of abstract expressionism where the artist appeals to the incoherence caused by laziness of actually doing art or actually lifting a paintbrush.
Blank canvases belong on easels, not in galleries.
Even as an abstract expressionist myself, there is a certain lack of expression here that questions the form.
In the article mentioned above, the work is described as
" a pristine white canvas"
How the heck is that worth the $2 million that Ms. Rindy Sam is being sued.
I’ll buy you another canvas. Or better yet.
I think someone should sue Cy Twombly for copyright infringement. I’d love to see that go to trial.
I’m going to do this little survey a little different. I think it would be fun to hear everyone’s answers instead of just seeing comments. Then I’ll post your message here and everyone can hear your answer directly from you. (oh yeah, don’t forget to tell me your url too so I can link you)
If you want more instructions on the button above, click the "read more" link below.
Lately, I’ve been working on a few random projects of my own. Most of these are more experimental in nature for my own benefit… but still, I’ll share. ;)
Also, I’ve been thinking about putting together a series of "color schemes" for web and digital work.
I know there are a lot of those out there already, but still, it might be beneficial to a few people too to have many in one place. Something akin to this Daily Color Scheme site that never really went anywhere but looked promising at one time.
I wish I could say I put this together, but I didn’t…
This is probably the best video on optical illusions I’ve found in quite a while.
I found it here. Enjoy.
I’ve been using this graphics tablet for over two weeks now. At first it takes some getting used to. Every point on the tablet corresponds to a place on the screen, which is completely different from a mouse. With a mouse, you can pick it up, place it in a different location and continue as normal. With a tablet, you just have to move. It took me four hours of wanting to throw this thing out the window to realize that I absolutely love it.
Issues.
I’ve fully transitioned to using the tablet as my primary pointing device though. There are times it responds slow when I am using program(s) that are fairly intensive (such as browsing the web with 5 tabs open, installing some software, and rendering a movie in the background). During these times, since I am using this on a laptop, I just use the little touch pad.
Drawing.
I am impressed with the pressure sensitivity that this thing has. I’ve been using it with a fairly cheap (compared to everything else) program called Smoothdraw (which runs at $45 as a download with a nice free trial by the way too) and it has performed admirably. I can achieve almost perfect pencil effects with the Intuous3.
Price.
Okay, I analyze things to death and initially, I don’t think think I could have justified paying almost $300 for this piece of plastic that sets on my desk and I only use for graphics every now and then. But after using it and getting through those initial four hours of frustration, I use it almost constantly now. It begs to be drawn on. As for the price, well think about it this way:
How much do you spend on paper, illustration board, canvases, prismacolor pencils, watercolors, acrylics, sketch journals each year?
See what I mean, I think I just saved myself around $600 I normally would spend elsewhere to get my sketching fix for the year (I’m the one who always buys tons of sketch journals and pilot v5 pens). Now, since I take my laptop with me about everywhere anyway as a professional blogger, I just bring my tablet along too. It’s about the size of a larger sketch book, but with endless possibilities.
The above review was for Amazon.com when they contacted me about reviewing it on their site. Then I realized that I only could write 300 characters there. Then I figured out that it would be good to publish here because "hey, Amazon doesn’t pay me to write for them!"
Enjoy.
There’s that strange feeling you get when you’ve been sick for a few days, and the rest of the world can just …um, go away.
Well, that’s been me lately. Some kind of sinus infection has hijacked my nose and trampled it in some dark alley.
So, I am writing this snot-infused post to let you know, that even though I am still alive somewhere mourning the belligerent virus that has so taken over me that I feel like a member of the living dead, I hope normal posting can resume again soon.
Until then, I must admit that there is a certain joy in just writing when completely hyped up on cold medicines. Maybe, I’ll just continue writing while I am sick for the fun of seeing what I could get away with.
nevermind.
Over the last few weeks, my wife and I have been taking long drives in the country and realizing how beautiful the rural areas are.
So here are some pictures we took with our new camera of some of the pretty places that are so close to where we live.
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