You’ve unwrapped the iPad, synced your music, and checked your email. Now what? A hundred thousand apps Downloading apps is overwhelming. Thousands of choices paralyzes new users. I’m highlighting five of my favorite applications one for each category: Photography, Games, Productivity, Art, and Relaxation. These will get you started. Photography Photos are the most fun…
Tag Archive: art
Rewarding Practice
From this humble beginning: To this less humble stage: There yet? Not sure what or where there is, but I keep practicing. Results are coming. Those are proof of improvement and some smatter of success. A coworker asked me to donate artwork for a fund raiser. FLickr folks looking for me to sketch their portrait….
Saving my sanity one sketch at a time
It’s a sketch. That’s it really. Sketching. It started out as a fluke. A test of the iPad. Then I was drawn in. No pun intended. How it grew. Chalk. I drew with the Chalk app from 37signals. Simple. Easy. Fun. Capturing interpretations of Twitter friends was joyous, for me and them. But why….
FlipFace Avatar for Japan
Need an avatar makeover? Love something with a freaky cartoon style? Flipface is for you! Len Peralta, Monster by Mail, has the following campaign going on for Japan relief: For a limited time, when you order a Flipface avatar from me, $5.00 of the order will be donated to the Japanese Relief efforts. This goes…
Twitter Superheroes and More
Twitter Superheroes. Conjuring up a few folks fitting this category isn’t difficult. Some even have names like @Dayngr that have a superhero feel to them. Such feelings led me to do several chalk sketches of my Twitter contacts, like the one of @threefourteen show above. A group of comic artists did this theme as well…
