Merry Christmas

All dressed up for the holiday season.

I hear beards are in.

Brainy Christmas!

I played with the new version of ArtRage tonight. If you follow me on Twitter (@bobjinx) you may have caught me raving about it. They added a bunch of new features, including an inking pen, watercolor brush, and selection & transform tools. I only exported to Photoshop to resize and save it as a proper jpeg—the new ArtRage even has color adjustment options. The inking pen is a bit too smooth for my taste, though very impressive. So I inked the little brain dude in Flash.


I did prefer the inking pen over the paint brush for detail work—you'll see I added the drool marks and puddle after I inked in Flash. If you're curious about how I use Flash with ArtRage, I can do a tutorial at some point. Sherm Cohen has already covered the Illustrator/ArtRage combo like a pro. But essentially, all I do is export a hi-res transparent PNG from Flash and drop it on a layer in ArtRage to paint under.

Have a great holiday everyone!
...and Merry Christmas!

See you in 2010, if not sooner...

We'll show YOU naughty...

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Ahhh...the holidays bring out the best in us, don't they?
Funny, I tormented Santa last year too.

Ho Ho Ho!

Even the best of us have a hard time surviving the holidays. Stay warm!

Scary Christmas!

I snagged this gem of an ornament at a swap party.
Happy Holidays, everyone!