Moar PhotoShop Poo

More PhotoShop poo, because who ever bothers to look at this blog anyways?
This time its some cutie pootie random anime inspired thing. Why? I don't know.

The better "Ebony" pencil is...

If you like to draw the ol' fashioned way on occasion, sometimes you go to the art store and buy pencils and such...

Anyhow I went and got some extra "Ebony" pencils, because they draw nice and dark and fairly smoothly without a lot of pressure. So when doing quick random sketches, they're hard to beat.

You would think they're all the same, but there happens to be more than one brand with that label or designation. I found in my own testing that the Eberhard Faber ones draw just a bit darker and smoother than the Sanford ones.

So take note if you see both brands available at an art store, the Eberhard Faber ones are better. (At least for the "Ebony" type pencils. Your results and consistency may vary for other types.)

Drawball fun - Be careful what you ask for!

As usual on drawball, be careful what you ask for. You might actually get it. Whoever did the my little pony asked to rebuild, but they never said *how* to rebuild it. Damn skippy I'm going to get my LOLz in there while I can! So there you go!

Warpaint is back online! Really?

Good news for those who think the idea of collaborative drawing in realtime is pretty cool, Warpaint is back online. More or less it's a nifty server program that makes it easy to join an active openCanvas 1.1 session through a web based interface. It's fun, and unlike drawball - you can control it to some extent (provided that you're the server host).

Kicking around the drawball

Drawball is this random thing that's like an unattended (mostly so, since the admins are pretty lax) graffitti wall. It gives you a stingy (about 15%) amount of ink every day, and then it's up to you to eke out something in whatever niche you can find with what you've got. But don't expect your work to last more than a day (or hours) even, unless you can get a group or hired minions to maintain your drawing.

Anyhow, here's some samples of goofiness that I've pulled off there so far. Usually because of the skimpy ink allotted, I end up building around or extending on something rather than trying something completely new. But it's still fun if you wait about 2-1/2 days. Just note that if you wait too long, it rolls over back to 0% and you've got to let it cycle again. Which is a drag, but what the hey...

Drawball Cat: A play on the ceiling cat internet joke. What makes it funny in this instance is how it's aptly located on the main board.

Ms. Fugly: Found a spot where someone was practicing drawing eyes and mouths. Made a face by adding a nose, and soon enough this happened. Being intentionally bad, it wasn't long before it got erased. But before that happened someone wrote, "OMG! NO!". Which had me laughing.


Seal of Approval: Another image, like the ceiling cat - its humor is based on where it's located. Vandalized already, apparently typical drawballers lack the skills to develop their lowbrow humor beyond empty threats and weak phallic doodles. So when something funny in a similar but more technically developed manner, they get envious and have to destroy it.