Monthly Archives: May 2012

A tree made of vectors

Previously, on Ninth Circle … As I mentioned last Friday, I’ve finally seen a tutorial (youtube, long) that helped me find a way to vectorize line drawings that isn’t LiveTrace.  LiveTrace was, to put it charitably, a complete disaster.  Let’s just say that … Continue reading

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The Windblown Tree

Art, meet reality.  Reality, meet art. A while ago I posted a sketch of a “leaning” tree.  In fairly short order, one of my readers (hi Mom!) sent me a photo from a trip to the southernmost part of the … Continue reading

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Putting the ‘work’ back in ‘coworking’

You asked for it, you got it A while ago Ferrett Steinmetz asked on the twitters if someone would make him a shirt that said “I’m only awesome on the Internet”.  Myself, I hear I’m much more awesome off the Internet, … Continue reading

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Why I use a Coworking space

Get Out Of the Damn House Already About a month ago, I made a connection with the folks over at Hive4a, a local coworking space.  They’ve got reasonable monthly rates (cheaper than going to a coffeeshop!) and a pretty cool … Continue reading

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One of these things is not like the others

Hoot! Hoot! My big news this week is that I bought a car.  Finally, after about three weeks since I knew my previous one was totaled. Unfortunately, it took a bit more money than I’d hoped, so if you’re feeling … Continue reading

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Silver on the tree

Fridays are for … foliage? In any case, this tree is an experiment with the silver pen I picked up recently – adding leaves and multicolor tree action. It’s sparse, but I think that works for it …. if there were … Continue reading

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