Working Artist's Life
Somewhere between starving and sucessful you’ll find the working artist.
Fun With Photoshop - How To Ink and Color a Pencil Drawing in Adobe Photoshop
Everyone dig out that little pencil sketch you’ve got stuck in a drawer or on a bulletin board. You know the one, the one you want to add some color to, but you don’t want to mess it up. Let’s digitize your artwork. It’s easy! I’m using Photoshop CS3, but this tutorial will work with […]
Learning to Paint Novels
Before I sat down to write this article I looked up “writing for artists” on Amazon. My search came back with dozens of books on basic grammar, technical writing and sentence structure for us language impaired visual artists. This was disappointing. I wanted to find references on learning styles and creativity that focused on cross […]
Making the Switch: PC to Mac
My first computer was an Apple 2C. My dad bought me a “drawing” program that let you color pictures like a digital coloring book. It was crude, awkward, had only eight colors and was utterly magical. My current computer is a brand new iMac, complete with Adobe Creative Suite 3, which allows you to color […]
Image Resolution vs. Image Size
How do I make my digital photos smaller? How do I make them bigger? These are two of the most common questions I get asked. Usually I walk them through the process using whatever image editing software they have (See the instructions for reducing image size in Adobe Photoshop below.) And then I usually have […]
The Glories of CS3
When I was in graduate school I purchased my first round of pixel pushing software. I had everything a modern freelance artist needed, including Adobe Photoshop 7, Adobe Illustrator 9, Macromedia DreamWeaver and Macromedia Flash. I had dreams of entering the professional artist world and creating fabulous pieces of hip, relevant, educational and enlightening artwork. […]
