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“What is iPad?”

fandomismo — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:26:25 +0000

There is this massively annoying iPad advert running in the UK that asks the above question and then provides no answer whatsoever, listing instead what the iPad is like. That wasn’t the question! Anyway, I transcribed the “answer” below.

iPad is thin. iPad is beautiful. iPad goes anywhere and lasts all day. There’s no right way or wrong way. It’s amazingly powerful. It’s magical. You already know how to use it.

So in other words, iPad is a bicycle. Or a pencil.

Okay, okay. It goes on to say that it has over nine thousand apps and counting, websites, books, video, that it’s a revolution and it’s only just begun. So the only actual answer to “what is iPad” in the whole advert is “it’s a revolution”. Well **** me, I didn’t think people liked those very much. Is there a “first against the wall” app? I know who I’d nominate.

This is how my mind works.

fandomismo — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:23:15 +0000

I have a list of things to do. I can order them by urgency and importance (separate scales!) but this doesn’t temper the “panic! do it now! can’t do it now! panic!” status that my brain awards in diplomatically and democratically equal measure to everything on the list. So I do nothing, and fret about doing nothing. To break this thought loop I’ll give myself a tiny task, and today’s “omg I can’t draw worth shit” loop was to be broken by a quick ~~portrait of my pet cactus Joe the Cactus~~ drawing of the cactus that sits on my desk.

[Pentel brush pen for ink; Cotman brush + cheap but trusty watercolours I bought in a supermarket ten years ago. No pencil prelim because that's for wusses.]

Brain Half #1: Yay I drew something! Look, I’m scanning it too! TRIUMPH.
Brain Half #2: It’s not a very exciting picture of a cactus.
Brain Half #1: It’s a picture OF A CACTUS.

Am I helping myself at all? Fuck knows.

One of many

fandomismo — Thu, 27 May 2010 22:00:02 +0000

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Ahaha! ArtRage still wins.

fandomismo — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:19:21 +0000

I whipped this up from scratch using only ArtRage3′s watercolour and spatula tools. Me likes! Now to think what to use this as background for… probably some crappy building-onna-cliff of something. (Have mercy, I haven’t drawn shit in months.) But, yeah, this is just to say that ArtRage is the stuff. (I have the Pro version, but even if you don’t feel like paying what is more than a reasonable price for a wonderful real media emulator, the free version delivers as well. I effing love this program. Why don’t I know anyone else who uses it?)

So, yeah:

And finally, some flags for no reason other than colourfulness:

John Milton is of the Devil’s Party, you say?

fandomismo — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:18:14 +0000

I did these a while ago, unable to help myself. Apologies, poets!

Summing things up

fandomismo — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:02:24 +0000

This is the basis for a chapter header of the comic I’m working on in my spare time. How do you sum up 60+ pages in a single image?

Painter and I

fandomismo — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:10:22 +0000

These are salvaged from the time when Corel Painter and I were just getting to know one another. In no order whatsoever,

Another blast from the past

fandomismo — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:57:31 +0000

For reasons unknown to me, this remains the most popular thing I ever put online; I even found it in YTMND. Done in CorelDraw some years back, when I was at the height of my crush on the 2D time traveller. Laugh away if you wish! I’ve had a string of fiction crushes since I was eight, and I’m not ashamed. Below is a poster I did on 70×100 card, in watercolours and ink, and if I recall correctly it took between eight and eleven hours of nonstop work (and yet I managed to screw Aku up; go me). I should have taken a photo before I had it framed so you wouldn’t have the lightbulbs reflected like this, but hey. I’m still proud of it.

Singularity OMG.

fandomismo — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:03:54 +0000

[Newspaper excerpt from Pi]

Artrage 2

fandomismo — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:29:21 +0000

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