Sea Turtle Illustration
I got a WACOM Intuos 3 last year for my birthday and I really hadn’t got the chance to play with until now. I decided to brush up on my traditional art skills, and since I like turtles, I decided to sketch out this turtle the other day in my sketch pad. I started with basic shapes and etched out the details later. I scanned in my drawing last night and started coloring in my drawing. The amount of control you get with one of these tablets is amazing. It responds to pressure sensitivity and you can control line thickness, opacity and other brush effects with your pen. It’s almost exactly like using a real brush, but better because you can always hit undo or create a new layer. Once I got most of the shading and coloring done I blended in some textures to give it the effect that it was underwater. I had a blast doing this, expect more drawings in the future.
Here is the original sketch from my notepad.
Why You Should Buy Your Electronics from Costco
Recently my XBOX got the dreaded ring of death. That’s the red ring of lights that brought pain and anguish to oh so many gamers. Microsoft recognized that their was an issue with the heat sync in first gens and is willing to replace any XBOX that got the ring of death. But you have to mail off your old one and then wait for them to send you a new one. Leaving you weeks without an XBOX. This would leave me weeks without Rockband, which is not healthy for me.
I bought my XBOX at Costco. Let me tell you why. Way back in the dizzay, I bought a cell phone from them and it died 3 yrs later. I returned it for a full refund and bought a brand new phone. So when I bought my XBOX back in Nov 2007, I bought from Costco knowing that they honor their lifetime warranty. When my XBOX died on me, I brought it in to Costco, and within five minutes I was granted a store credit of the amount I paid for my XBOX back in 2007. They gave me full credit!
I paid $478 for my XBOX back in 2007. It was a bundle pack that came with 2 controllers, a plug and play adapter, headset, a crappy arcade game, and the XBOX. Costco now sells the XBOX bundle pack for $350, which includes 2 controllers, a plug and play adapter, headset, 3 crappy arcade games, 2 crappy XBOX games (Kung Fu Panda, and Lego Indiana Jones) and an XBOX that shouldn’t crap out on me. Can’t wait to get my Kung Fu Panda on!
Oh yeah, I also bought a Garmin and a hot dog with the rest of my store credit.
Get a Costco membership. It’s worth it.
Do I Look Like Steve Urkel?
I bought some new glasses the other day and I been getting mixed reviews. I like them, but “some people” think they are too Urkel. What do you think?
