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Category: Tools and Techniques

  • Continuous Pencil

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    Well, the “Liquid Pencil” turned out to be a dud, so how about a more modest bit of pencil inventiveness? Most of us who use wooden drawing pencils have experienced the stub problem; once your wooden pencil is worn down to a stub that’s too small to comfortably use, what do you do with it?…

  • ImagineFX #60

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    I’ve written before about ImagineFX, a UK based magazine devoted primarily to 2D digital art (“digital painting”) for the fantasy, science fiction and concept art fields. Almost every issue of the magazine I’ve every seen has had articles of interest to me, (and ImagineFX is one of those magazines, like Illustration magazine, in which even…

  • MagCloud

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    As necessary is it is these days for artists to have a presence online, there are times when print is the medium of choice for showing one’s artwork, whether as a leave-behind for galleries, a sample book or portfolio for prospective clients or as a printed book for collectors. I wrote back in 2008 about…

  • deviantART Muro

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    For a while now deviantART, the online arts community portal, has been teasing it’s members and visitors with an “It’s coming..” campaign, touting an event to coincide with deviantART’s 10th anniversary on August 7th. The event was the release of deviantART Muro, a new online digital painting and drawing application that works in the browser.…

  • Sharpie Liquid Pencil

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    Sharpie, makers of the iconic line of markers and pens, has announced a Liquid Pencil, a pen like instrument that makes lines with “liquid graphite”. The lines are apparently erasable like a pencil, but dry into ink like permanence in 24 to 36 hours (depending on whether you believe the packaging or the Sharpie blog).…

  • Sketch Theatre

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    Sketch Theatre collects step-through demonstration videos of artists from comics, film and game design, animation and related fields. Created by Alex Alvarez, founder and director of the Gnomon School of Visual Effects and the Gnomon Workshop, and produced by Lily Feliciano, Sketch Theater allows artists in these fields to give quick instructional demonstrations that pass…