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I’m going to be messing around with the…

I’m going to be messing around with the design of the site for the next few days. If anything looks off, don’t worry about it, I’m probably already fixing it.

Keep drawing by hand. One of the most i…

Keep drawing by hand.
One of the most important lessons I’ve learnt in recent years is that you can never trade digital art for real-life sketching. The muscle training, the fine touch, the detailed work — it all comes out of having a physical medium to apply yourself to.
Digital artwork is great, don’t get me wrong. [...]

It’s probably a given that I use a Mac …

It’s probably a given that I use a Mac for most of my work. As a designer and artist, I’m often amused by the notion that the Mac version of Photoshop is somehow more “magical” than the same product delivered on the Windows platform. It isn’t, in all truth. You can get the same results [...]

I do think it’s about time I got workin…

I do think it’s about time I got working on some steampunk designs to go with my robot.

I think my buddy James Cullen put it pre…

I think my buddy James Cullen put it pretty well: Conventions are like DeviantArt in real life. Everyone’s free to browse, a select few sell anything at a profit, and you’re surrounded by bizarre things you can’t unsee. The difference, I would argue, is that conventions are an experience worth having, and that most of [...]

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