2006-07-21 Illustration Friday — Come-Go — Opposites Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. This week’s Illustration Friday topic is ‘Opposites’. Right now I’m in a bit of relationship turmoil, and taking a bit of a break from my girlfriend, ‘S’. I thought …
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2006-07-02 Nelson Mandela ‘Madiba’ Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Nelson Mandela is 88 years old today, 18 July 2006. Thank you very much for making South Africa possible. May this country live up to the potential you helped create, look onestop …
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Chapter 1: “Boom” Hokay. Don’t miss this one. Click now and be prepared to spend a fair amount of time rivetted to your screen. Cos this is THE new graphic novel. Several great things about it. (1) It’s set in …
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2006-07-14 Three Kids — One Bowl Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. After a false start on Illustration Friday, in which the theme was announced as ‘Aging’, a second theme was revealed… ‘Sacrifice’. I had found a pic some time ago of …
2006-07-13 Nude Dude on a DeckchairOriginally uploaded by royblumenthal. When I saw ‘Nude on a Ship‘ by vealj, it was only a matter of time before I painted it. I emailed him for permission, and he said, ‘OK by me, …
Hmmmm. I’ve been tagged. By Realist. At Cerebral Yoga. In a post titled ‘C stands for‘. And my letter is ‘c’. Apparently, what this means is that I have to make a list of things starting with a ‘c’. Or …
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2006-07-12 Joyful Chap Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. My third painting in ArtRage. Here’s something interesting to me… in all the other packages I work in, I think of my pics as ‘drawings’. In ArtRage, I think of them as ‘paintings’. …
2006-07-11 Bending Nude Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. I based this pic on ‘6 Euro‘ by subconscience, which is released under a Creative Commons ‘attribution, non-commercial, share-alike’ license. This is my second pic made using ArtRage 2.11 on my Toshiba Tecra …
2006-07-11 Coffee Break Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. I’ve just bought an amazing new drawing package. It’s called ArtRage2.11, and it gives me things that Alias Sketchbook Pro 2.0 hasn’t even dreamed of giving me. For instance… paper texture, and brush …
2006-07-09 Illustration Friday — Skyline Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. This week’s Illustration Friday topic is ‘Skyline’. I found two pics on stock.xchng that worked for me. The one of the dude is titled ‘Carnival‘, and is by martina123. The backdrop …