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Brushes

Nathan Olsen — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:05:44 +0000

Today was a work session for my Tuesday Photoshop class at LCAD, which left me with some downtime. I like to draw while I await requests for help from my students so, in that spirit, I decided today to check-out the Brushes app for the iPad. It’s a neat program. The interface is really simple to use, but I still found it a little awkward at first. As I got the hang of it? I really started to enjoy myself. It’s no replacement for actual paint, but it’s definitely a much more practical option for sketching on the go.

I know that there is at least one or two competitors out there to Brushes and discussions often revolve around which of them has the most/best features. Honestly? I love the simplicity of Brushes. I don’t think I need anything more than this. I just learned that there are shortcuts for changing the brush size and picking colors, which is great. If there was a shortcut for changing opacity? The program would be perfect.

Update: You can watch a time lapse video of the painting process at YouTube.

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The White Queen

Nathan Olsen — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:22:29 +0000

My favorite comic book series as a kid was The Uncanny X-Men. I was too young for the Byrne era, but I was there for Rick Leonardi, Marc Silvestri and Jim Lee. Chris Claremont’s writing was so convoluted that half the fun was just trying to figure out what the hell was going on from issue to issue. The first time The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants showed up? I had no idea who they were, but Claremont wrote the story as if everyone knew who they were — I think that was kind of what made the book so interesting. Reading it was like joining a club and the longer you stuck with it, the higher you rose in the ranks. Long time readers knew the Brotherhood, and that’s all that mattered. Me? I just had to catch up.

And it wasn’t too difficult to find the motivation — the Brotherhood’s leader was a character called The White Queen. A cold, evil woman named Emma Frost who had the body of a supermodel and a costume that looked like it had been picked off the rack at Fredericks of Hollywood. To a pre-teen boy? The most terrifying supervillain imaginable — either she’d kill you or kiss you and at that age both prospects seemed pretty frightening.

Other superheroes in the notebook:

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That Are Not Bizarro

Nathan Olsen — Fri, 14 May 2010 08:28:10 +0000

This Isn’t What I Expected

Nathan Olsen — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:24:55 +0000

(from family photo)

It’s A Hard Life

Nathan Olsen — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:13:29 +0000

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