50 Percent More Ninja

Autodesk Sketchbook Pro

Snow Day

July 14, 2011
Snow Day

A quick sketch that started as something else, and as usual my attention span got the better of me and it changed a fair bit. Rendered in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 2011

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Have I told you lately…

June 14, 2011
Elsa

..that I love you, Sketchbook Pro? Ten minute blast in ASBP. I’m not generally given to using ‘novelty’ brushes, but these spatter brushes that were introduced in SP1 worked reasonably well. Once I got over the shock of the opacity control being in the puck (curse you iPad influences) I had a lot more fun. [...]

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Still Dreaming

September 18, 2010
Still Dreaming

I haven’t completely given up on I Dream of Dragons, hence the sketch….

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Dragons in Manga Studio

May 15, 2010

I had something of a desire to try and work in Manga Studio last night, so I sketched up another dragon and imported it. Well, when I say imported… I spent 20 minutes trying to import it, 5 minutes downloading the manual and another ten trying to work out how to get it to show [...]

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Here Be Dragons

March 29, 2010

In the spirit of posting work in progress, this a page of sketches done for “Sometimes I Dream of Dragons”. It’s all ongoing, but it’s nice to be doing something that is pure illustration for a change.

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Buddies

March 28, 2010

An exercise in making small icons in Illustrator. First, they were sketched up in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, and then drawn up in Illustrator The icons are of the Phantom Bantam, Toki the Samurai Bunny and our favourite mascot and company logo: the Ninja Beaver. In other news, we’re waiting on a large format (A1) satin [...]

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Monster Mashup

October 30, 2009

A quickie post for Hallowe’en. Finally (!) managed to work out how to stitch together screen caps from Jing, so the video below is a speeded up quick ten minute sketch done in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro. I’m not going to attempt to review it based on that, or record an audio review (I hate the [...]

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Fear the Beaver

January 25, 2009

Ahh.. it’s been so long. Well, not since the last time, but it’s been a while since I have felt motivated enough to tinker with the site and finally remember to re-link to the Cafe Press store. As you can see, I have added a “Buy Stuff” link to the site. It’s about time I [...]

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