Tale #39 - The Tale of Giving Back

Hi, all!

Anyways, I've been very busy thinking of ways to give back to the other awesome artists out there.... namely, YOU! So in that little thought-quest, I came up with the idea of downloadable goodies that you can use. What kind of downloadable goodies, you may ask? Well... goodies that you can use to make your own comicbooks with! So what I did was create some comictoning brushes and some comic-SFX brushes that you can use in Photoshop CS2. It took me some time to get these together and cooperating, but now I've got them working. So here's my treats for you guys:

The Comic Sound FX Brushes (A la Mediafire!)

AND

The Comic Toning Brushes (A la Mediafire!)

So this is just the start of me putting little goodies out there for you all to download. My next item: Comic ballons and pre-made comic panals. Oh yeah! And my art-blog power tips!

Anyways, see you all later!

Tale #38 - The Tale of Mac Attacks II

Hi, all!

No new sketches today. Sorry about that! I've actually been a little more-or-less distracted by playing around with my new Mac. Right now, I'm checking out GarageBand and tinkering with that.

Anyways, I also checked my hitcounter recently and saw that I managed to score over 300 hits. Woot! 300 hits since I first got my blog up 2 months ago. So what will happen over the next 2 months or 300 hits? Who knows! But what I do know with my Tales Of A Media Geek (TOAMG) around, it won't be boring!

Anyways, yeah... brief update on what's up. Well! See you all later!

Tale #37 - The Tale of Mac Attacks!

Hi, all!

Guess what! My Mac came in today! I'm totally geeking out about it here! ^^ I woke up this morning and it was just there at my doorstep all nicely packaged complete with a little Apple-themed door hanger. I'm so psyched about this! So today, I'm going to be setting this bad-boy up and we're ready to go. But like all my computers, each one gets a unique name. My last computer/server was named "Checkers." Now I have to come up with a unique name for my new Mac (It's a "tradition" I've got going.) What I'm going to do is put up a poll uwing Blogger's new poll feature to help come up with the perfect name for my new Mac. WOOT! So excited!

Anyways, on to the daily sketches:





So as you can see, I finally finished off that digital sketch and polished it up. I also wanted to show a close up on the details.

Anyways, excuse my zinggyness here (All this excitement WITHOUT coffee! XD ) But I've also finished off my accounting course! I'm quite happy about that.

Well! Gotta set up my new Mac before I start excitedly talking in French (which does happen despite the fact that English is my first language) or before I start dancing around the room like a goof ball! XD

Tale #36 - The Tale of The MEAN Canadians

Hi, all.

Okay.... I was out for a 10 minute walk which quickly turned in to a 10 minutes of peril! You see, what happened was was that there was some Canadian Geese hiding in the bushes out near a foot path that I liked walking on. I didn't see them until I was right in THEIR territory. When I was there, they took one look at me and attacked me! That's right! Geese attacked me! If there's one thing that needs to be known about this winged terror is that they're extremely ornery and they will attack you. I consider them some of the meanest Canadians out there! So I was chased all the way back to shelter and shut the door tightly. God! That was scary! There's only so much that could descirbe that. This is the first image that comes to mind about that whole incident:



And here's a more accurate 2 minute sketch version with way more accuracy:



Good lord! That was scary! Good thing I got out of that reasonably unscathed. Now why does mother nature seem to have it in for me lately and want to hurt me?