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  • Bad Posture

    Bad Posture

    A couple of years ago I finally bought what’s called a Display Tablet for doing my digital illustrations. In contrast to a graphic tablet, a display has a built in screen and it’s cool because you can see the illustration right under the stylus. I am pretty happy with it except for two things. Bad…

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  • Red Wall: Matthias and Constance

    Red Wall: Matthias and Constance

    I started re-reading Red Wall and, of course, was inspired to paint Matthias and Constance ready to battle Cluny the Scourge. Here is the time lapse. You can see that I switched from one style of painting to more of a watercolor style. I’m trying to settle on a painterly style that looks more stylized…

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  • Copying the Masters – Death Dealer by Frank Frazetta

    Copying the Masters – Death Dealer by Frank Frazetta

    Every so often I take a painting from an artist I admire and try to copy it. This helps me understand the problems they encountered while making it and then figure out how I would solve them. It’s also fun. Here I’ve copied one of the masters of Fantasy Art, Frank Frazetta. Music by Michael-DB.

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  • NASA Perserverance Image Data

    I wrote this Jupyter Notebook to query, load, and manipulate images from the NASA Perseverance Raw Image Pipeline. Feel free to copy and use to explore. Here’s a colorized image from Sol 2.

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  • Missing Sounds of New York: An Auditory Love Letter to New Yorkers

    Missing Sounds of New York: An Auditory Love Letter to New Yorkers

    This collection of audio landscapes that you’d hear around New York was released near the beginning of the 2020 covid-19 pandemic, when the city was on lockdown. Created by the New York City Public Library and the creative agency Mother New York. Go Listen →

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