Feureau's Den

How to fix Painter's "This installation of Painter has been damaged or illegally modified" Error For Mac and PC

2008-07-18T02:01:00.002-04:00

Whew! That's a long title, but it's definitely worth it! Corel has a bad history of unstable programs and bad customer support. And I don't see it changing anytime soon. As a Mac user, I don't use much of their program. Except Painter. And today, out of the blue, it decided to crap out on me. Yep. I got one of those:

This installation of Painter has been damaged or illegally modified.

To the untrained eye, this might seem that I have either done something stupid and delete a file, or may have pirated (*Gasp!*) the software. Well, whoopde-fuckin-do. You know what? Corel treat people with both disorder the same way: With a cold shoulder.

After trying multiple time to install and uninstalling the damn thing, I scoured the internet. One guy/gal in a forum posted that s/he has fixed his/her copy by downloading a crack(!!) off of a hacking site. Well, that's a solution, Corel! You should distribute cracks to fix your brokkin software! But that solution is neither elegant, nor Mac-worthy.

The thing about a Mac, is we're outnumbered by the dumb people who choose to deal with viruses and all those windows crap instead of switching to a beautifully designed hardware with a revolutionary and well thought-out OS X. But enough about you PC users.

To fix the problem on a Mac, you don't need to install or uninstall or do anything, just go to your HD > Library > Preferences folder and delete the file named nTitles Product Licenses IV.

Then just load Painter! You will have to re-register so I hope you haven't thrown out your hard copy. *grin*

Now, on a PC, we have to delve a little deeper into the horrid entanglement that is the Windows Registry! *Dun-Dun-Dunnnn*

Oh, yes, this baby may look tame now, but watch out! Y'all artsy-artsy people are in for an ascii headache.

The rest of this solution is basically lifted from here. I got rid of my Windows headache so I won't have to deal with this registry shit anymore. Did I say shit? I meant crap.

you have to delete the Protexis files afterinstallation, but before trying to open the program.

So after uninstalling and then reinstalling Painter, do START>>RUN>>typeREGEDIT Search for all PROTEXIS files [two of them] and DELETE (being careful that's all you delete - remember to backup the reg first just in case). And only then open the program.

Also, the one reply to that blog post was;

hey, the nudes were weird but I liked the other stuff you can draw

Ah, PC, how will we Macs live without you?

Don't use Wacom Driver 6.08-2

2008-07-17T10:09:00.000-04:00

The pen would sometimes fail to detect and stop working for a second until it refreshes and starts working again. While this doesn't seem like a big deal, it craps out your workflow especially when you're already in the zone and in the middle of painting or cross-hatching.

Another thing, is that the pen would stop detecting pressure sensitivity if you go from one app to another, say, when you click on a browser and go back to photoshop. You have to lift the pen out of range from the tablet and put it back in range. Sometimes it only affects when you go between applications that are defined and not defined in the pen custom settings.

Also, I couldn't seem to revert to an older version without uninstalling the new one first… which would mean that I would lose my settings. Grrr. :S Why couldn't they make wacom settings saveable elsewhere as a file and so you can just load them and share them with people.

Of course, this applies specifically to Wacom intuos 3 driver. But I expect the entire wacom tablet series that uses this driver is affected.

The Complete Photoshop Brush Collection for Painting

2008-07-09T18:32:00.000-04:00

As a photoshop painter, you understand the need for natural brushes, such as pencils, pastel, watercolor, to name a few, and photoshop is way behind its competitors in this front. It couldn't even rotate its canvas fer cryin' out loud.

But have no fear, one man has filled in this void for you! David Nagel! All of this brushes is now available.

Yep, David Nagel has created so many brushes for photoshop, it's website, the creative mac, couldn't even catalog it.

Seriously, the site is very badly put together, not to mention spam heavy, that it's so difficult to navigate. But oh, you so dearly need the charcoal brush! The pencil! The watercolor brush! Your life depends on Photoshop!

Have no fear! Google is here!

Just Click Here to go to google and have all the photoshop brushes you need listed.

If you don't know which to get, just get Series 33 (chalk, dry brush, charcoal, pencil), and 30 (bristles, charcoal, pastel). They're the essential ones. Oh, and Series 40 watercolor.

And as you can see, David Nagle created such great brushes, the charcoal photoshop brush looks like charcoal, the pencil photoshop brush looks like pencil, the watercolor photoshop brush looks like watercolor, and the gouache photoshop brush looks like gouache!

But that's not all! He's even created the cloud brush, it's so easy to use you'll get clouds done very quickly! There's also a couple of stamps like the butterfly and various animals.

Oh, did I mention the skin brush? It even comes with a hair brush, you know to paint in those hairs when you texture your 3D model.

List of Photoshop Free Plugins

2008-06-06T11:41:00.003-04:00

I thought I was gonna retire this blog, but it turned out, I kept getting computer-related stuff that I always want to share with you. ^^

Now, one thing that makes photoshop such a powerful software is the plugin. And most of us mere mortals… well, we can't even code html right to save our ass. So, the only reasonable solution to this, is having someone else to code for us. But here's the catch: Money. Well, everybody wants something for nothing, and the economic law says, where there's demand, there bound to be supplies.

And what luck would have it, here's a website that list a whole can of free plugins for Photoshop. And not only that, they would also provide help in case those software got outdated and won't run in your version of photoshop as much as they can.

From their page:

We are committed to cross-platform open source software and welcome discussion of any issue pertaining to the software on this page, including build issues.

As a proponent of open source, I like to plug for this page. ^^ However, be forewarened, they have plugs that aren't free. :(

Create .ico on your mac with Photoshop
I wanted to create a .ico icon for one of the many websites I maintain. And it turns out, photoshop can't open nor save .ico. :( Luckily, someone GPLed a .ico plugin for photoshop that would also run on a mac. ^^ You can download it from the aforementioned website. It's listed at the top of the list as of this writing.

How to get a Wacom Tablet Fully Working in Ubuntu Linux

2008-02-15T10:57:00.008-05:00

UPDATED for HARDY HERON. Thanks to bigdee973. ^^

I mean, FULLY WORKING not those half working tablets where the pressure don't work 100% and the expresskeys and the touch strip not working. I mean this guide is to help non-programmer artists get their ubuntu system working with their wacom tablets. Just like they do in their Apple Macs and *shudder* windows.

The first thing I'd like to point out is that, this guide is not intended for programmers. This guide is for computer dummies like myself who wanted to escape to a free OS. If you're just trying out to see if wacom works under ubuntu, don't waste your time. The tablet is not as easy to setup as in a Mac or Windows. No complete installer is provided by wacom. However, your tablet will work with Ubuntu out of the box. There's no extra setup needed. But the expresskeys and the touch strip will not work by default.

To get a wacom tablet fully working, the only mental faculty you need is already present if you have ever finished a Legend of Zelda game. Except zelda II that one just sucks. I'm sorry if you ever played that one. Or the CD-i Zelda.

Now, some of the instructions presented here will be in the form of codes. It'd be nice if you try to learn and understand what they mean. They will be very useful to your Ubuntu future. But if you're intimidated by strings of nonsensical characters randomly strung up by an evil genius geek deep in his dragon infested dungeon, just think of it as looking for a particular icon in other OSes like OS X or windows. Or just looking for the any key. Only, in this particular OS, it's already provided for you to copy paste.

I hope you're running Ubuntu 7.10 or higher. The codename for that version is Gutsy Gibbons. If you're not, please run your automatic software update till you run Gutsy. (If you're already running previous version of Ubuntu, you wouldn't need to read the dumbingdowness parts of this guide)

So, anyway, let's begin.

Although Wacom tablet runs out of the box in Ubuntu, you'll need to enable it in Ubuntu. That's just how linux works. If something is unnecessary, it just won't load it. Unlike windows which becomes bloated because it loads practically everything at starts up.

Part 1. Running a wacom tablet.
This part is lifted from ubuntuguide. You might want to use that one if you already know what you're doing. And return here for the second part.
First, you'd have to fire up the terminal. Go to Applications > Accesories > Terminal
And boom! You got this terminal window:
Hooray! You've just prepared yourself everything that is necessary to complete this howto guide. Isn't that easy? Even mere mortals can do it. Most people are just too chicken to try.

Now let's open the editor and edit xorg.conf. All you need to do is copy this:

gksu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

And paste it to the terminal by pressing Ctrl-Shift-V. Then just press enter to open the editor with xorg.conf. You might be asked for password now. Just put in your login password and it'll open the editor.
Look for the part that says:

#Section "InputDevice"
#Driver "wacom"
#Identifier "stylus"
#Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
#Option "Type" "stylus"
#Option "PressCurve" "50,0,100,50"# Custom preference
#Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY
#EndSection

#Section "InputDevice"
#Driver "wacom"
#Identifier "eraser"
#Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
#Option "Type" "eraser"
#Option "PressCurve" "50,0,100,50"# Custom preference
#Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY
#EndSection

#Section "InputDevice"
#Driver "wacom"
#Identifier "cursor"
#Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
#Option "Type" "cursor"
#Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY
#EndSection

And remove the # sign before each line until the three parts looks like this:
Then save.
And we're done with part 1! All you have to do is restart and you'll have a fully working tablet now! Or, if you're smart, just press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.

Part 2. Getting to drive the expresskeys.
If you restarted as told, and done playing with your working pen, you'll notice that the expresskeys and the touch strips don't work. If you have a Graphire 3, then you can immediately draw in Gimp. Have fun! But the rest of us, we have to increase our productivity by utilizing these touch strips.

The first thing is to launch the Terminal as we did in the first part.

Then you paste this code:

sudo aptitude install xlibs-dev

Run it by pressing enter, and it'll display a jumble of things. Don't worry about it. After it's done, just paste in and run this code:

sudo aptitude install wacom-tools

Those two codes will ensure that your computer is fully prepared to compile the program that will run expresskey and touchstrips.

Now, launch your firefox browser, and head to Expresskeys. And get the latest tar/gz thing. As of this writing, it's expresskeys-0.4.1.tar.gz.

Then you just right click on it and select extract here . After that, in your terminal, go to the folder that you've just extracted. In short, paste and run this code:

cd Desktop/expresskeys-0.4.1

Change the version number as necessary.
And inside that, run these commands line by line. Don't try to do it all in one go, copy one line and past it then run it, after that run the next line. It's maybe tedious, but if anything goes wrong, you'll know which part went wrong and it'd be easier to fix.

./configure
make
make install

After that, we'll need to open xorg.conf again, so like before, just run this command:

gksu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

And add this section immediately above or below (it doesn't matter) the three we edited in the first part.

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "pad"
#c~b Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "pad"
Option "USB" "on"
EndSection

Then look for the part that says

Section "ServerLayout"

And immediately below the line, add:

InputDevice "pad" #c~b Intuos3

And that's it, we have set up the necessary programs to get the touch strip and the expresskeys to work.
Just save and reset your machine or press Ctrl-Shift-Backspace.

Part 3. Near instant gratification.
Just like in part 1, start your terminal. And run this code:

expresskeys -d

If you did everything right, it wouldn't spit out any thing and returns to the terminal like nothing happened.

Fire up gimp and try out your touchstrips and expresskeys!! :)

But wait, what if you want to customize the expresskeys and the touchstrip?

It's easy, you just need to know the key combination and edit the expresskeys config file.

To edit the config file, first you must be able to see it.
Go to your home folder: Just select Places > Home Folder. If you're running ubuntu, I don't need to illustrate this anymore. In your home folder menu, press Ctrl-H to show some hidden files and folder (Ctrl-H again to hide them. Look for a folder named .expresskeys (with the . (dot) before the expresskey) and inside, you'll find a file named intuos3.conf1. Just double click to open it.

Follow the instructions in the file to edit each and every function of the expresskeys and touchstrip.

Oh, and one more thing, to get the keycode, start your terminal and enter:

xev

A small window will appear and your terminal will be spitting a bunch of code. Put your pointer inside the small window and leave it there. Don't move even for a pixel. If you're using the tablet, just lift your pen.
Press the key that you want the keycode of on your keyboard, and immediately it will appear on your terminal as marked:

Good night good luck, and most of all, have fun with your fully functional tablet! :)

UPDATE for Ubuntu 8.04 HARDY HERON:
***FOR THOSE OF YOU USING UBUNTU 8.04 HARDY HERON***
before you install expresskeys u have to edit a file before you compile and install. its not that hard... what u have to do is download the latest version of expresskeys which is of today 5/23/2008 expresskeys-0.4.1 (here is the link...if link is broken just google expresskeys-0.4.1 and download file).
http://freshmeat.net/projects/wacomexpresskeys/
after u download the tar/zip file, you will untar/unzip it into ur home folder...and then Change line 462 of the file src-expresskeys/get_device.c from:

if (xdevice_list[i].use == IsXExtensionDevice) {

to these two:

if (xdevice_list[i].use == IsXExtensionDevice ||
xdevice_list[i].use == IsXExtensionPointer) {

after that save the file and close it. and proceed with the installation as described in the tutorial...but if ur too lazy to back track like me then just open terminal and copy and paste below...

sudo aptitude install xlibs-dev

...this installs the files u need to configure and install express keys...then in terminal...you cd into the directory of the expresskeys folder that u untared/unzipped into. which should be your home folder and

sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

restart your PC then open terminal type in

expresskeys -d

your keys should work...u could also add this to your startup session by going into system>preferences>session
u restart your computer and then open terminal again and....

expresskeys -d

and ur expresskeys should work play with the strip to see

Add post randomizer for blogger

2008-01-23T18:53:00.000-05:00

When your blog post came up to the hundreds or even thousands, one day you'd want to let people click on random post. Or, maybe if your blog is a personal blog, and not a spam blog that aims only to suck traffic, you might one day want to flip thru your blog randomly, just like when you speed read thru your personal diary.

There are many ways to add this capabilities to blogger. One popular way is by adding a random I'm feeling lucky widget to your blog. However, I find that these clickable links are best put near your navigation buttons, not somewhere in your sidebar. In blogger, that is the older post, newer post and home button. Besides, it looks horrible to see a lone navigation button hovering in the middle of those stuff on the right.

So, what other ways can we use to achieve this? The most obvious is a blogger hack. I have sampled several blogger hacks that allowed this, however, some would get deleted if you change some layout and stuff on blogger. This hack has survived several blogger changes.

So, what you do, is, edit your templat HTML, make sure that expand widgets is selected, then add the following right before the </head> tag.

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var _yourBlogUrl = "http://insertblogurl.blogspot.com";
function randomPost() {
var script = document.createElement("script");
script.setAttribute("type", "text/javascript");
var theUrl = _yourBlogUrl
+"/feeds/posts/summary?alt=json-in-script&callback=getTotalPostsCallback&start-index=1&max-results=1";
script.setAttribute("src", theUrl);
document.documentElement.firstChild.appendChild(script);
};

function getTotalPostsCallback(json) {
var totalResults = json.feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t;
if (totalResults > 0) {
getRandomPostNumber(totalResults);
}
};

function getRandomPostNumber(totalResults) {
var randomNumber = Math.floor((Math.random() * totalResults)
+ 1);
getRandomUrl(randomNumber);
};

function getRandomUrl(randomNumber) {
var script = document.createElement("script");
script.setAttribute("type", "text/javascript");
var theUrl = _yourBlogUrl
+"/feeds/posts/summary?alt=json-in-script&callback=getTheUrlCallback&start-index="
+ randomNumber + "&max-results=1";
script.setAttribute("src", theUrl);
document.documentElement.firstChild.appendChild(script);
};

function getTheUrlCallback(json) {
var theUrl = json.feed.entry[0].link[0].href;
window.location.href = theUrl;
}
//]]>
</script>

And then, add the following where you'd like the random link to appear in your blog.

<a href="javascript:randomPost();">View Random Post</a>

In my blog, I put it under

<div class='blog-pager' id='blog-pager'>

Please thank Purple Moggy for creating this code. :)

Wii Remote as 3D Peripheral

2008-01-23T16:43:00.000-05:00

Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effectively transforms your display into a portal to a virtual environment. The display properly reacts to head and body movement as if it were a real window creating a realistic illusion of depth and space. By Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. For more information and software visit http://johnnylee.net

This was posted over at penny arcade today, and I think it's really interesting. Nintendo itself has demonstrated an astounding variety of ways to use the wii remote like in the game Wii Sports, Wii Play and Wario Ware. It even changed the landscape of 2D gaming as demonstrated in Super Paper Mario.
The catch is, Nintendo meant for the Wii for gameplay only. And that is correct for the Wii Remote. (it's not Wiimote, you morons) But, wouldn't it be great, if you can use it on a PC? Especially after seeing that video, don't you wish you have that capability on a 3D program? You'd only need to move your head a little to see the 3D-ishness of your objects. Or perhaps, use a Wii remote to edit your mesh?

What Johnny Lee has demonstrated is only a proof of concept. It has not been implemented to a practical everyday use. I hope someday someone with a good programming skill can connect the Wii remote to Maya or Blender.

XML error on swapping blog and post title on new blogger

2007-12-21T16:29:00.001-05:00

UPDATE: This hack is no longer valid as you will not be able to add it to your blogger template.

When you search for a post in a blog, say, with google, does the search result shows the title of the post? Or the name of the blog? If you say the latter, which is the default condition for blogger, then you'll need to swap the blog title and the post title on your blog.

Jacky Supit, on his blog, posted New way to swap Blog Title and Post Title on New Blogger.

What is this, exactly? To put it simply, it's turning this:

Into this:

Now why would anyone try to do that? One might wonder. It doesn't seem to worth the effort. However, this little change can mean a lot. Putting the title of the post before your website title means that when people search for something and google returns your site, the title of the page presented to the user will not start with the title of your site. Which in my case would mean, because of the title's length, it'll take up most of the space available on google search to show the title of the page, like so:

Which means that the user would less likely to click on it because they don't see the title of the page representing the topic they'd want to see. Not only this is SEO, this is just common sense.

Now, to remedy this, you'll need to swap the titles. To do that, you'll just need go to your blogger dashboard, go to template > edit html. You will then need to select expand widget template, and then look for:

<title><data:blog.pagetitle/></title>

Like so:

That single line is the only thing you'll need to replace. However, the hack to achive our purpose, is not that simple. The code is provided on Jack Supit's blog post, however, some users (like me) has reported that it returns an XML error, like so:

Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Open quote is expected for attribute “{1}” associated with an element type “cond”.

So, after a bit of investigating, the code apparently contains some minor bugs. I think it's due to blogger's habit on changing punctuation marks. A little tweaking, and I managed to get the code to work on this blog. Here's the code that I end up using.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<b:section id='swaptitle'>
<b:widget id='Blog2' locked='false' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog'>
<b:includable id='nextprev'/>
<b:includable id='backlinks' var='post'/>
<b:includable id='post' var='post'>
<title>
<data:post.title/> - <data:blog.title/>
</title>
</b:includable>
<b:includable id='commentDeleteIcon' var='comment'/>
<b:includable id='status-message'/>
<b:includable id='feedLinks'/>
<b:includable id='backlinkDeleteIcon' var='backlink'/>
<b:includable id='feedLinksBody' var='links'/>
<b:includable id='postQuickEdit' var='post'/>
<b:includable id='comments' var='post'/>
<b:includable id='main' var='top'>
<b:loop values='data:posts' var='post'>
<b:include data='post' name='post'/>
</b:loop>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>
</b:section>
<b:else/><title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>

If, somehow blogger decides to change some marks, here's a txt file of the code that you can download.

After that, just save the template and go see if it works.
The title hack only changes the titles of post pages, and not your main page.

Define Friendship . . .

2007-12-12T20:44:00.000-05:00

Define friendship, Charlie Brown. I think that simple question is not very easy to answer. For one, what kind of friend are you? And how do your friend befriend you? That would weigh in to your evaluation of the definition of friendship quite heavily. Don't cheat. Everyone has come up with their own definition. What's yours?

Charles M. Schulz, he was one lucky guy. Getting that strip was the best thing that ever happened to him.

I drew this the other day. I made the original PNG file available for download if you want to examine my inking up close. There's good detail captured in the scanning process. I used Photoshop to clean out my sketch lines and fix some weird scaling problem I didn't realize I have until I put this two drawing together in photoshop. Believe it or not, the Charlie Brown part was on the right side of a landscape paper, while the left occupies another sketch. The Lucy sketch was on the left side of another landscape paper while on the right side was the sketch of the dancing snoopy.

Peanuts (C) United Features Syndicate. No parts of this publication may be reproduced without the author's permission.

Good ol Charlie Brown

2007-12-12T18:39:00.000-05:00

It's Good 'ol Charlie Brown.

Charles M. Schulz, . . . I still miss him.

This is the early style Charlie Brown. I'm not sure why his head is very oval but I can assure you, that's how oval he looks in the book I'm copying this from. Just that particular drawing. The others aren't very oval.

I drew this the other day. I made the original PNG file available for download if you want to examine my inking up close. There's good detail captured in the scanning process. I used Photoshop to clean out my sketch lines.

Peanuts (C) United Features Syndicate. No parts of this publication may be reproduced without the author's permission.

Composition in Red and Blue

2007-12-12T06:37:00.000-05:00

It's Composition in Red and Blue.

Made with blender.

I can't believe I forgot to post this here....

Lucy and Snoopy

2007-12-10T23:44:00.000-05:00

Lucy and Snoopy by ~feureau on deviant ART

Snoopy is the only character due to his naivete and purity, cannot be crabbied out by Lucy.

Charles M. Schulz, thru snoopy, has taught us the value of positive thinking, which is what we desperately need these days in the condition the world is in today.

I drew this the other day. I made the original PNG file available for download if you want to examine my inking up close. There's good detail captured in the scanning process. I used Photoshop to clean out my sketch lines. Then frame and text bubble the thing out in Inkscape.

Peanuts (C) United Features Syndicate. No parts of this publication may be reproduced without the author's permission.

Dancing Snoopy

2007-12-10T18:30:00.000-05:00

Snoopy dancing his happy feet. :)

Too bad Charles M. Schulz passed away just before the world turned upside down. We could use some of his insights to make us feel happy again.

I drew this the other day. I made the original PNG file available for download if you want to examine my inking up close. There's good detail captured in the scanning process. I used Photoshop to clean out my sketch lines.

Peanuts (C) United Features Syndicate. No parts of this publication may be reproduced without the author's permission.

Composition in Lines and Brown

2007-12-10T16:32:00.000-05:00

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE see this not in regular view, not in full view, but download it and see it zoomed to 100% in in your viewer of choice and enjoy the details on this thing. See only parts of it, and never see it as a whole.

These lines are mathematically generated in ubuntu then cleaned up in Photoshop.

Linus and Snoopy

2007-12-09T18:28:00.000-05:00

Happiness is a warm puppy and security is a thumb and a blanket.

So, I decided to color these two. Digitally. The paper background made it look natural, I think. There's no way I could color something like this in real life. The ink would go runny I think and I have to go out in my ninja suit and throw some shuriken at it. Please see it in full resolution. I love the dirty details on this thing, this should be printed to a billboard and put in a living room to enjoy how the ink and watercolor is spreadly soaked on the paper. You know what I mean.

We are in badly need of another Charles M. Schulz because the world today is too cold and insecure. . . .

Peanuts (C) United Features Syndicate. No parts of this publication may be reproduced without the author's permission.

Paper background is from [link] 's [link] .
I think this is the best paper stock ever existed in deviantART.

How do you make those links to other DA account with the icons? Do you know? Mine turns out linky links style.

Linus Van Pelt

2007-11-27T01:37:00.000-05:00

Linus Van Pelt by ~feureau on deviant ART

This is Linus Van Pelt sucking his thumb and hugging his security blanket from the Peanuts comic strip of good ol' Charlie Brown.

We need another Charles M. Schulz because the world is in a pretty bad shape today, and I sometimes, I don't even know what's going on....

I drew this the other day. I made the original PNG file available for download if you want to examine my inking up close. There's good detail captured in the scanning process. No photoshop is involved in the process. I used gimp to adjust the white point and crop the image and removed parts of other sketches that gets scanned along, That's all. I did not even clean up the pencil sketch on this thing. I think it adds to the natural feel of the ink.

Peanuts (C) United Features Syndicate. No parts of this publication may be reproduced without the author's permission.

Snoopy with an Apple

2007-11-27T01:20:00.000-05:00

Snoopy with an Apple by ~feureau on deviant ART

This is the early Snoopy with an apple on his head from the Peanuts comic strip of good ol' Charlie Brown. This looks a bit different from the other Snoopy sketch I uploaded because, Snoopy underwent a LOT of design changes over the ages.

We need another Charles M. Schulz because the world is in a pretty bad shape today, and I can't stand it. I just can't stand it!

I drew this the other day. I made the original PNG file available for download if you want to examine my inking up close. There's good detail captured in the scanning process. No photoshop is involved in the process. I used gimp to adjust the white point and crop the image and removed parts of other sketches that gets scanned along, That's all. I did not even clean up the pencil sketch on this thing. I think it adds to the natural feel of the ink.

Peanuts (C) United Features Syndicate. No parts of this publication may be reproduced without the author's permission.

Snoopy

2007-11-27T01:09:00.000-05:00

Snoopy by ~feureau on deviant ART

This is the early Snoopy from the Peanuts comic strip of good ol' Charlie Brown.

I miss Charles M. Schulz because the world, in the state we are today, need the comfort of our safety blankets found in his Peanuts strip.

I drew this the other day. I made the original PNG file available for download if you want to examine my inking up close. There's good detail captured in the scanning process. No photoshop is involved in the process. I used gimp to adjust the white point and crop the image and removed parts of other sketches that gets scanned along, That's all. I did not even clean up the pencil sketch on this thing. I think it adds to the natural feel of the ink.

Peanuts (C) United Features Syndicate. No parts of this publication may be reproduced without the author's permission.

Godzilla

2007-11-27T01:08:00.000-05:00

Godzilla by ~feureau on deviant ART

This one of my early computer graphics work. I never consider it finished, and one day, I'll make a proper Godzilla.

City by the bay

2007-11-27T01:02:00.000-05:00

The city by the bay.
Just a quick render. Well, the rendering takes hours because it's a very huge image, but it was made pretty fast.

Corinthian Column

2007-11-27T00:59:00.000-05:00

This was rendered as corporate logo for a company. Therefore I'll not be able to supply a hires version, print or CC license.

The artwork is copyrighted and you're not allowed to do anything with it. Even looking at it in your computer like what you're doing right now may land you in prison. Just kidding. But our agents should be knocking at your door any minute now.

Space Buddha

2007-11-27T00:56:00.000-05:00

It started as an alien and turns out rather Buddhists. (I'm apatheist myself) I decided it was actually how Buddha would've looked like in the planet Skyron. But the title Buddha in planet Skyron sounded like a bad B movie title. And at the time, I was listening to Futurama commentary a lot and one of the commentator said something like, "When in doubt, add Space before name." Hence the name Space Buddha.

It was published as a cover and it generated some controversy. Apparently the Buddhists took a page out of the christians and islams and threatens the editor. So much for karma.
Anyway. The original is quite hires, but it's in the archive. I'll dig it out later and reupload the hires here. In the mean time, enjoy a magnetic Space Buddha for your fridge. :D I was hoping DA would one day be able to print 3D statues, then, you can have your own space Buddha to put in your altar.

Cow in a glass of Milk

2007-11-27T00:50:00.000-05:00

This is another huge image that I rendered. It was printed on T-Shirts and as it turns out, the girls love it so much. The complete title of this piece is: "The cow in a glass of Strawberry Milk." But DA is too dumb to consider long titles on their system. Stupid admins.

Anyway, this piece is very cute piece and very cuddly. I'll upload the full res version once I found it. In the mean time, enjoy a mug of milk with a picture of a cow in a glass of milk on it.

Halloween Bat

2007-11-27T00:47:00.000-05:00

This was originally my entry in a collaborative 3D artwork. I had to redo this stinkin' creature 3 times since the software crapped out on me, and I didn't get the chance to pose it for the final pic so this guy sticks out rather stiff.

Regardless, this looks quite rather handsome, nice for avatars and stuff. I used it myself for quite some time.

This is the full resolution pic with a bit of compression. I don't have this specific 3D model anymore as this was an earlier version of the critter. As I told you, the software crashed and corrupted the file.

Dragonfire Closeup

2007-11-27T00:45:00.001-05:00

Dragonfire Closeup by ~feureau on deviant ART

This is a closeup of the Dragonfire's head. This is not even close to the full res. It's a very large pic.

Like my recent uploads, the full res is archived and I'll get them out and reupload this pic in full res.