by Roy Blumenthal on April 30, 2006
I’m sitting at Codes in Rosebank playing with my new easel. It’s mounted on a camera tripod that I got from a junk shop.
Hans at the Rosebank Flea Market makes a brilliant tabletop easel. He modified one to fit my tripod. This means I’ve got something sturdy enough to keep my Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet PC safely mounted.
All of which is a neat way of saying that I’m having great fun drawing in this coffee shop.
I’ve downloaded Corel Painter 9, and I’m finding it vastly more powerful than Alias Sketchbook Pro 2.
Now if Painter could get their brush resize tool to match Sketchbook’s, that would be perfect.
My reference for this self portrait is a pic Eran Tahor took of me last night. I was visiting him and Jade at their new spot in Melville.
by Roy Blumenthal on April 29, 2006
I thought this pun might be rather too obvious, but when I started sketching, an idea or two formed which made it quite a load of fun for me. So, I hope you dig my Illustration Friday ‘Life Under the ‘C’.’
(I’m sitting at Mugg & Bean, Killarney, Johannesburg, South Africa, drawing this on my Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet PC, using Alias Sketchbook Pro 2.)
by Roy Blumenthal on April 22, 2006
This week’s topic for the Illustration Friday group is ‘Robot’.
So I flipped the screen into the ‘down’ position on my Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc, fired up Procreate Painter Classic, held my right hand up in front of me, and, using my left hand, copied it faithfully. (It helps that I’m left-handed.)
Then I started screwing around with converting it into robotic segments.
Hey presto… my very own godlike hand! (Not very useful for delicate operations though, I reckon.)
