End of Inktober 2014

Inktober has come to an end.  What an intense month!  I tried to do a drawing everyday but missed a few days.  I had a couple of ideas on how to end it with a bang but the last few days of Oct were full of work and Halloween events in the evening so it didn't happen.  That's ok, I can take my time now and do them when I feel like it.

I think I upped my game from last year (which is nice to see). I've learned some new techniques and have been using more reference this time around.  I dedicated more time to them too which helped.

On some days it was really hard to figure out what to draw.  The pressure of wanting to post them online for people to see doesn't help with that either. I think I want to take some time to try out some ideas I have without the pressure of posting them - if they turn out great, if not, no one has to know!

I'm glad people have enjoyed them. Thanks to those of you who've shown support, it's really appreciated!  A few of them will be going to new homes shortly, which is really nice.

Overall, it was lot's of fun and I recommend it to anyone who wants to gain motivation and the habit to draw everyday.

Here are some of my faves from the last half of the month.

I recorded a couple of them here:

Cintiq 13HD Review

Yikes! Once regular blog updating stops, it's hard to get back into it!  I am going to try to post more often. I have a few things coming up that I'll be posting about:

IMC, which is less than a week away! And this summer, I'll be working on my first graphic novel; It'll be a multi-Artist anthology of Hans Christian Anderson stories.  I'm doing Thumbelina!  I'm thinking of documenting the process of creating this project.  Maybe it'll help out other first-time Graphic Novelists.  We can learn together :)

Anyways, here's the review video I made over the weekend:

I screwed up the price in the vid.  It was $969 including shipping but NOT tax.  And I got it from Costco.ca but I just checked and it looks like they are out of stock because it's not coming up anymore.

I should have drawn something more fun :( but thinking about what to say and making a beautiful drawing didn't go hand in hand, lol.

Basically, I gave it a big thumbs up.  I forgot to mention in the video that it is SUPER high res which is the reason that the 13" size doesn't feel small.  Also, I'm left handed and it took a bit of fiddling around with the monitor settings to make it display properly.  It's super light-weight, slim, and it fits on my desk with all my other junk just fine.  The power cord doesn't have a huge brick like some of the other Cintiqs which is nice.

That cord connection on the side of the Cintiq is my nemesis!  It actually behaved during the video which was a surprise.  It is quite sensitive to movement and I doubt I'd be able to use it on my lap like I've seen in other videos without the connection crapping out.  I hope it doesn't have to do with the condition that I got it in: When I finally got the package from UPS (that's a whole other story), I took the Cintiq box out of the bigger delivery box and the Cintiq box had a smashed corner and one of the seals was open.  It looked like someone in the warehouse dropped it and opened it to see if it was ok before packaging it up to be shipped.  I hope that's not the cause of it being so sensetive.

Other than that (which isn't that big of a deal because I rarely bump my hand into the cord) I'm glad I got it.  It's a great device and I give it 4 out of 5 stars.