Month: December 2013

3doodler

Crafts

Kickstarter is an interesting beast. The first fund I decided to jump on was the 3doodler.

I am not disappointed. It works like a hybrid glue gun and solder iron. Since the holidays came and went, I haven’t had too much time yet to go into more in depth designs, but as it’s aptly named, I like how these doodles came out. There is a bit of a learning curve because melty plastic is not a precise tool. However, once you get the handle of “soft plastic suggestion”, you can start forming what you envision.

 

Happy Christmas

Sketchbook

testdraw

I woke up Christmas morning and unwrapped a new Wacom Intuos Pro – small. THAAAANK YOU SO MUCH my dear!

I hooked it up to my laptop and then realized that I didn’t have my copy of Corel Painter X installed. So I searched Apple’s App store for something free to doodle with and found Sketchbook Express. It’s a neat little app but I have to get used to the interface. I think I still may prefer Painter. Above is the doodle that I made in a few minutes.

I debated for a long time about what to put on my wishlist; staring at websites and crunching numbers on different tablets (which also included new computing set ups as well). The best option right now was a basic drawing tablet. What I hope for in the future is a reasonably priced stand alone drawing tablet (real operating computing system). Wacom is almost there but the Companion model is completely overpriced right now. Let’s see what goodies next year will bring us.

 

 

The Sketchbook Project

Projects

There’s a project out there that anyone can participate in called The Sketchbook Project. I haven’t been to the Art Library in person, but I thought the concept was a great idea. You get the sketchbook and it just looks so small and compact. Once I started drawing in it, I had this idea to draw on every single page, but I’m only a few pages through, so it feels daunting. I’ll just have to keep plugging along and we’ll see. I want to be able to submit it in time for the “tour” they take some of the books on. My only request is that they make a stop in DC.