Since I started the "As Mr. Artist Guy" feature a couple of weeks ago, two people have written me asking for a follow-up review of the new portable "sketchbook" Cintiq 12wx. I wrote my first review after having played around with the Cintiq for only a day or two. Overall I'm still very happy with it, but now that I've logged a few dozen hours with it I've got some additional thoughts.
I've just come off of a long, crazy stretch of freelance projects, so today was the first time in a long time I was able to kick back and enjoy noodling around in the ol' sketchbook. The top sketches are warm-up doodles and the bottom three are sketches from magazine photos. Ideally I'd like to spend at least a half hour...
Illustrator Doug Jones writes:
I have always had a tower type computer but now I am wondering if maybe I should go for a MacBook Pro as my main computer. Is there any reason to have the large tower type computers anymore?A great question. I had to do a little research to answer this one. I'm fortunate enough to own both a powerful desktop machine and a laptop, and I use both regularly. Like many creative types I've been a devoted Mac user for several years, so I'm pretty clueless as to what's available in the PC world. But I'm pretty sure most of what I have to say is just as true for users of either platform. I'm not an expert on computers, so someone else may give you different advice. But as a commercial artist who works digitally, here's my two cents. There are several issues to consider:
I'm busy wrapping up a giant client project that is due post-haste, so unfortunately I don't have time to write a blog post today. But please take some time to browse the list of Art Blogs over on the left-hand side of the page. Loads of inspiring stuff! Fresh bloggy goodness coming tomorrow....
(Artwork copyright © Joe Bluhm. All rights reserved.) (Artwork copyright © Jason Seiler. All rights reserved.) I love a good caricature. Some artists have an innate ability to really sqaush and stretch a person's features while still retaining a dead-on likeness. Personally my brain doesn't work that way. My attempts at caricature are mediocre at best. I'm truly in awe...
I found this using Stumble. It's a fun (though bizarre) animated short by Pascal Campion about a man trying to open a very unique cartoon door. It appears to have been done in Flash. The timing is sharp, the animation is fluid, and the concept is delightfully simple. There is no sound or dialogue, just pantomime done very effectively....
