...both the excitement of using it, and the smell ;) Just over a year since getting Painter X and discovering the wonder of the oil brushes, I have now used real oil paint for the first time, and I must say that although "real" mediums are a little intimidating - paint has always scared me (both the real thing and the microsoft ...

Well it's been a while, hasn't it - unfortunately my medical (mis)adventures have kept me away from my art. BUT exciting things will start happening in my blog now that I have started taking art classes!!! To start things off will be my very first Life Drawing experience ever! I will have a full report and scans of any work I do next ...

Hey, he finally responded to my inquiries.  What Riven tell me?  Its all my fault.  Just because all the files wont work on all 3 of my computers,( 2 xp-1 vista, range form 2 gig to 4 gig ram, AMD x2 , I checked and all OS and Media Player files are up to date.)  He keeps saying he is a poor art teacher, so I guess he wants me ...

As I've mentioned faaar too many times before, I didn't consider art until I was around 13, mostly due to the fact that I hadn't drawn anything until I was 12. Anyway, the picture that convinced my parents (and then my parents convinced me) that I could actually draw, was a fan-art of Grendel which - to be completely honest - I drew ...

Before I start my rant on the shoddy electric company that keeps turning my computer off mid-sketch, is there a "Corel Painter for absolute, completely clueless, never-painted before, Idiots" book out there? I just recieved the Corel Painter magazine (issue 2 ) and - since I'd just read through Linda Bergkvist's tutorials on ...

Warning: Super-long uninteresting personal ramble ahead!! Ok so I really want to get into the Games industry; it's like my career goal at the moment so I suppose it was fate that landed a huge article on getting into the industry at my local newsagent, covering everything you need to get the job of your dreams..... I recommend you read ...

If the blogs of my depressed wannabe-goth emo-punk whatever-teen friends are anything to go by, a blog is a place to whine and rant and in general, ramble about whatever's bugging you. So here I go, I'm going to rant and rave about something that really bugs me.  It's obvious that if I'm to get ahead in any way I'm ...