zip-the-quick

I've been away, but I haven't been not working. I've been busy with a comic project, in fact. What comic project have I been working on? Well, meet Stuart. Stuart has been living in my head for over twenty years. He made his first appearance in the form of a wiggly-haired and bug-eyed stick-man drawn all over a desk out of boredom in English Literature class in my sophomore year in high school. Since that time, I've drawn many dozens of -- maybe even a couple hundreds of -- pages of his continued wacky adventures. Most of those pages never saw light of day. He gained a proper name and a body about fifteen years ago, when a friend and fellow

Just in case there are people out there who aren't already aware, VLC Media Player is pure magic. I recently found out you can stream your desktop with it, and I'm surprised at just how little the file sizes are when you do, considering other options I've tried. I've recently been looking hard for inspiration, and have gotten hooked on speed-art videos. It looked like fun, and in an effort to continue living up to my goal to learn all the digital media programs I own, I decided to whip out Premiere Pro, and start doing some videos myself! Coloring the goblin hunter drawing is my first. It's a fine example of me fumbling around with Manga Stud

You know when you're in art school (or art class) and your teacher assigns that project where you have to make 50 different versions of the same image? Anna's Bust is sort of like that, I guess. It was really the first digital drawing I did to a point resembling completion once I decided to try my hand at this whole "computer art" thing. I drew her without really knowing what I was doing, and with equipment which, although I still think I was kind of ingenious in setting up, wasn't exactly all that intuitive. For example, while I had some nice touch input and a stylus to go with it, I had no way to get pressure sensitivity, so as far as Illus