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 …
2006-07-02 Illustration Friday — StickyOriginally uploaded by royblumenthal. This week’s Illustration Friday topic is ‘Sticky’. So I searched the Flickr tags, expecting to find someone pouring honey into her mouth. That sorta thing. Instead, I found ‘Happy Birthday‘ by nmoira, …
2006-06-30 S at Amper Bo Guesthouse Pretoria Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. A few weeks ago, I did the unbearably romantic thing. I invited S to a quick one-night getaway at a luxury guesthouse. I chose to book at a place …
Wow. What appalling service from Vodacom. I’m so angry I can hardly type. Here’s the chain of events that started this… I’m sick in bed with flu right now. An incoming sms beep woke me up. ‘Cool,’ I thought, ‘my …
Vodacom customer service gets it very badly wrong — what will they do to rectify this? Read more »
2006-06-24 Emily Martin — Black Apple Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Emily Martin is an artist/crafter with a blog called ‘Inside a Black Apple‘. I came across her work on Seth Godin’s blog. Go take a look at her online store, …
2006-06-23 Illustration Friday — Rain Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. This week’s Illustration Friday topic is ‘Rain’. I’m drawing really fast at the moment, cos I’ve only got about an hour and a half before I need to get into my …
2006-06-18 iMomus (Nick Currie) Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. This is the full-colour version of iMomus (Nick Currie), the dude who writes Click opera, an art-fiend’s must-read. According to his blog, he wears ear-muffs to give himself quiet-time. I recently ran …