Rediscovering the Road Not Taken …

I like to draw and have often thought of creating a comic book. My character skills are still a bit underdeveloped and getting a consistent result from frame to frame takes a lot of time. Using Flash as a way to build reusable characters to pose and render out as static comics (or with some animation like moving clouds, exploding panels etc) has been on my mind. I imagine the standard library building techniques would be great for this and once built, could speed up the process - what do you think?

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This is just a quick note for those promoting their art. If you haven’t done so already consider adding a Deviantart page. I added three brush packs over the past 3 days. My site generated 200 or so downloads. Deviantart generated 1300 during the same period. It makes sense to cross link your various blogs and sites to drive traffic through them and increase your visibility.

Ever since Dan Ritchie created DogWaffle it has had a fanatical following. I tried the demo some time back and loved the particle brushes. When they rolled that feature into a separate product called PD Particles -that only cost about $20- I purchased it.

I recently dug up some presets I created and posted them as part of my site update. If you have any of these products

I created another small collection of ’stone’ Photoshop brushes which you may want to check out.

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I added another small collection of free Photoshop brushes. You can paint with them, use them to cut through layers to expose different textures and use layers styles to generate effects like this quickie texture I did.

I added brush previews to the page so that you can see what is included in each pack before downloading.

Check them out here.

I decided to try my hand at a few desktop wallpapers. Not sure how good -or bad- they are. My aging monitor seems a bit off -stuff that looks good to me seems to be too dark, too light or too saturated to other people; can’t figure it out. It’s also possible I screwed up the color space settings I guess.

You can get them here.

Feedback appreciated.

I’m playing with a new Flash component by the folks at

I thought the post title had a clever ring to it - until I did a quick search on Wikipedia and realized why. That really was a gem, I’ll have to watch it again.