Angry women with knives

Sword-dancer
Medium: Mechanical pencil, Photoshop
Bit of a recurring theme, really. Maybe I should get some professional help or something. In any case, I need lots of practice with digital art and this was the first sketch I had lying around. Comments or criticisms accepted.

Lunchtime Sketches VIII

Mermaid
Medium: Pencil
Don't like this one much. For some reason, even her expression was irritating me by the end of it. Mental note: scales = painful. How many times must I learn this simple lesson?

Lunchtime Sketches VII

Tattoo
Medium: Ink pen
Just a quick sketch of an old-school tattoo idea. Not very original, and it hasn't been cleaned up, but hey, the blog needed a new sketch.

More Of The Same

For anyone interested, the story has been updated....no accompanying pictures, though. Sorry, Library Nerd!

P.S Whoops, changed it but didn't republish it. It should work now.

Lunchtime Sketches VI

Eco-Punk
Medium: Pencil
Very badly touched up in Photoshop to remove some messy smudgy bits. Credit goes to the ever-inspiring Fault for the name and seed of the idea (pun intended). I actually quite like this one...

Online Apps

Like, say, World of Warcraft. No? Damn.

Well then, on to Google Docs!

The availablilty of a free online Word clone is fantastic. Okay, okay, it doesn't have all the features but it'll type up your resume and covering letter without too many dramas- what more can you ask for? (Seriously, let them know and they'll probably include it in the next version.) I liked some of the features- being able to slap the text directly into your blog is nice, for a start, and the sharing worked more or less how I thought it would. The one thing I thought was missing was the ability to share it unreservedly- it would have been nice to just slap a document up there and let anyone mess with it.

Instead, I just put it up as a page. Want to see my google doc? Find it here. Want to add to it? Drop me a comment and I'll add you as a collaborator (I love that they used that particular term. It sounds like we're planning to overthrow the Nazis or something.)

Consider It Mashed

Ha HA! Bet you'd all thought I'd dropped off the face of the earth, huh? Well, fair enough, I had. But I'm back, for mashups-related goodness.

Mashups, I'd have to say, are one of the things that I've learned the most from in 23 Things: mostly because it goes directly against my idea that two types of information are difficult if not impossible to shove together properly. I mean, I can barely get two different versions of Outlook Express to talk to each other.

I had planned a simple (de)motivational poster, but then I couldn't find the pic I wanted. So I decided to draw it. And colour it. And make it one of a series....

I'm sure you can all see where this is going, so in the end I just decided to post what I had so far and run with it. It needs a lot more work, and I don't know if the other sketches will ever see the light of day- other scribbles are calling my name...

For any who are interested, the art is based off a pencil sketch, lined then coloured in photoshop. The motivational poster mashup over at Bighugelabs took care of the rest.