digital oil

I grew quite fond of the oil colours within painter. The mixture of applying colour and mixing the colour while keeping the brush on the canvas feels quite organic. I am still looking for a convenient way to change the blending parameter – perhaps I’ll map them on the tablet keys …

Befriending The Wacom Tablet

Where tools are a hindrance investing in better solutions may actually improve the situation – coming from the intuos 2 the investment in an intuos 4 tablet is a _huge_ leap forward.

The haptic qualities of the new tablet are remarkably close to the real thing and though I still need much (*10^10) more time drawing this way to be able to totally forget about the tool and focusing on the image itself, this is much much better than before

First steps in Manga Studio (Debut, that is). It’s a lot better for drawing than PS, imho.
And I’ve still got a long way to go to get accustomed to the tablet.

Due to staggering advances in genetic engineering, we’ll soon be able to have a completely sustainable christmas. The advantages of the so-called basmati christmas tree are amazing:

• once you are through with christmas just take the needles (read: rice), make a nice meal out of them and reuse the wooden parts as chop sticks – this way nothing needs to be thrown away
• it’s already white, so you don’t need (artificial) snow
• if you’re unsure which christmas present you need to bestow on ,for example, your spouse, just find a nice rice bowl

The Basmati Christmas Tree

Have you ever organized a tombola and asked yourself why you have to disappoint the not-so-lucky participants?
Yes? Me too – that’s why I invented the “Tombola Cookies”:
Instead of a simple folded piece of paper the participant gets a fortune cookie, which contains either a profound piece of wisdom or he actually wins a prize. This turns the event into a true win-win tombola

Every host knows this problem: the guests won’t eat the last piece of cake, pizza, etc.
I just had a brillant business idea, which will finally solve this problem – the eternally lasting last piece: I’ll produce convincingly looking plastic food shaped in form of pizza or cake or whatever you want to serve to your guests.
This will make it easy to finish off every real piece of food for your guests, because they won’t be ashamed of looking as greedy and bad mannered as they really are.

And to prevent people from eating the everlasting last piece it will be marked with a little sign that reads “last piece”.

Boy, I gonna be a millionaire soon