Don’t Use Gimp Without ‘em…
…5 useful Gimp tutorials.
I kind of thought this fruit bat looked like the Gimp character. What do you think? Photo taken by Jodi_B of Deviantart.
Gimp is a great program. I challenge anyone to name a better free image editor. That being said, it does lack the instructional support, a well established package like Photoshop possesses. There are instructional videos, classes, books and magazines dedicated to Adobe’s application. This is something a free open Read more
Drawing Basics - Putting the shapes together
In this second installment of the drawing tutorial series, I show you how to take the shapes from the last video and create meaningful images with them. Once you get these first steps mastered you’ll be able to draw just about anything you want. So lets get to it!
If you’d like to see a drawing tutorial on something specific let me know by clicking the link here
Drawing Basics - Learn 4 Pillar Shapes
You can find lots of How To drawing tutorials Online, but aside from being wowed and inspired, you are left with very little instructional guidance.
This leads me to the question, are these videos truly tutorials? Many of them are usually set at high speeds, to accommodate time limits. And the only audio is music playing. You can’t really follow the techniques and the artist never says anything.
Photo by Maylar of Deviantart
Now many of these videos are cool for what they are, (not tutorial) so don’t get upset if I’m talking about you or one of your favorite artists.
Rather than complain about it, I chose to create my own drawing series. My tutorials will start off with the very basic principles of drawing and build from there. I wanted this to be something a left brained person could pick up and feel comfortable with. Now I’m not a formal instructor as such, but I can teach you a few things if you are open minded. I’m always open to learning something new, so please share your insight with me. The most important thing is that we have fun as we take this art journey together.
How To Not Be Inspired
If you’re uninspired and want to stay that way, don’t read this post.
I did this post and video to share one of the ways I stay inspired. I recently came across a article, written my Darren Rowse of Problogger.com, that talked about getting away from your computer and going to the mall. It shared how we need to observe our target readers so we can communicate to them in more meaningful Read more
Quick and Easy E-book Covers in 3D
Are digital E-book readers the wave of the future? Apple has an app for reading e-books on your iPhone, Sony’s got a line of new portable digital readers, and apparently there is a device called the Kindle2 that you can read your e-books with. Honestly I didn’t know there was a Kindle1. If I didn’t know better I’d say these mega companies are betting on the increased sales of e-books and we need to take notice. For anyone interested in writing a book now may be the best time to make it happen.
I recently did a video tutorial showing how to layout a e-book cover design in Microsoft Expression. As a follow up, I want to take you through the steps of turning that 2D art into a 3D book using Gimp. After watching this video you’ll Read more
