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10 Awesome tutorials for graphic tablets

Renate — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:30:36 +0000

Graphic tablets allow designers to extend their abilities. I just got a tablet for the first time myself, and if you are like me and interested in learning more, there are lots of tutorials out there. Here is a small selection of some I found useful.

1. Create a Furious Pink Panther Poster

2. Super-Slick, Screen Printing Separations with Illustrator

3. How to Draw a Classic Hand using a Graphics Tablet

4. Draw in Photoshop Using A Tablet

5. Anatomy illustrated

6. Creating convincing characters

7. How to Set up Your Wacom for Awesome Results

8. Photoshop Lineart-Coloring Tutorial

9. Sketching a Boat with Graphics Tablet

10. Hand Drawn Design

My first submission @ Threadless.com

Renate — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:00:34 +0000

This is a bit late. As you may know if you read my previous post I delayed this whole blog thing. If I hadn’t, this would’ve come much sooner.

I have made my first submission to Threadless.com. And it didn’t get a half bad score! Now I’m just crossing my fingers and hoping it will get printed.

Please tell me what you think, and if you think it deserves to get printed, go over to threadless and comment on my design (Even though the scoring has ended, comments still counts.

I am a procrastinating perfectionist

Renate — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:17:18 +0000

Why do I procrastinate? I’ve been trying to answer this question for a long time, and frankly, I don’t really know. The closest I’ve come to answering this is simply my strive for perfection.

I’m afraid of not getting things exactly perfect – not for others, but for myself. Over-complicating, thinking things over and waiting for a better solution is what I end up doing instead of just trying.

Can you guess how long it took me to start this blog, and not to mention this post? 1 week? 3 weeks? 3 months? Wrong. It has taken me over a year. I registered this domain sometime in 2008 and thought I would start the blog up during summer when I had the time. Needless to say, that never happened.

I use my time perfecting my skills in theory, making them perfect so I don’t have to make something mediocre from the start. I had a vision of making money on this blog already within the first month. (So silly.) My content would be amazing and people would be flocking here from StumbleUpon and other social media sites. Now, I won’t be disappointed if that doesn’t happen.

One other reason I’ve been delaying the launch of this blog is simply because I don’t like pre-made themes. Since I’ve been putting out making one, I didn’t really get far.

I don’t really have a solution to eradicate procrastination – I doubt it can ever be done by anyone. But there are some measures you can do to diminish it. I found self-confidence works a treat, and the ability to actually try before giving up. You could also become a structured procrastinator.