Today I’ll present a portfolio of a french designer which I think is one of the most succesful approaches at grungy sketchbooks that I have seen so far. The portfolio is not really packed with pieces, but it’s giving a nice overview of the artists capabilities, without being too bloated. Technically it’s a flash based, easy to navigate and self-explaining interface awaits. The artists name is visible at the bottom of the site, where also links to two social networks find their place in shape of the networks logo. The works are devided in the usual subcategories, which makes it easier for customers to check the recent works in the category of work that they may be interested in. Cheers to Florian Nicolle. Please check him out at neo-innov.fr.
The hugin panorama creator is a great tool for photographers who use Linux. It has great abilities to merge photos into a nice panorama image. Hugin, The Panorama photo stitcher is absolutely great. I just tried it with two photos I took some time ago and jumped on my terrace to make a series of 6 I could merge to a single image. It worked outstandingly.
This shows how you can connect the different images with points where the same object or same pattern appears. (I know these images are horrible, I should have taken 2-3 more of that building. Btw, this is the town hall of Flensburg.
The hugin website offers a lot of tutorials which I definetly going to have a look at. Puzzling images together in GIMP can really consume a lot of time. *sigh*
Here my first results:
As you can see here, I’m gettin my hands dirty again. Yeah I know, painters and pencil artists may actually want to execute me for this expression but I mean doing creative work. This one (Solitude) is rendered for the 100 themes I try to complete (I got stuck somewhere some time, nevermind). Beyond that I also work on stuff for my new portfolio. It’s really so much fun to work with pixels, vectors and photos again. I’m also drawing a bit, but not as much as I should.
Much love to the developers and communities of:
… with a wonderful girlfriend, as you can see 
but not enough with that. I’m now the proud owner of a Sin City comic collection! I spend my birthday last saturday with my girlfriend and pretty quite, it was an awsome day. The day was including sleeping long, having chinese (or at leas asian) dinner and some shopping. Today I got home and checked my post, nice to see people thinking about me, thanks to all of you. Today I too got a very nice gift from my mum and my stepfather. A printer and scanner combination and it’s such a big relief to be able to print A4-prints in a good quality now, at home. It’s a Canon MP520 and I’m very happy that I could make it work on my linux machine with a little help from the #sidux channel on irc.oftc.net. Last weekend I too shot my latest picture, titled “Keep your hands where I can see them, Miss” which also can be found here on deviantART. The model is the one and only Julia.
Finally, I’ve decided to change my avatar on most community websites around.
For years I’ve used variations of this picture:
When I made this, with an old webcam and a lamp, I was about 13 or 14 years old I guess. Back than, I could barely use The Gimp to invert the base pic and copy it, so it appeared there twice.
The new one:
It’s done with Inkscape, with I am kind of familiar with now. I got kind of lazy on the hair, will maybe correct that later.
So we go from: 
which I used most and for the longest period, to 
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(new splash screen by Paul Davey)
With great exitement I can announce, that version 2.4 of the famous Gnu Image Manipulation Program is worth a download. I’ve been using it since version 1.2.3 and it has improved a lot. In the current version the interface got more intuitive and it finally supports colour profiles, which are pretty essential for printing.
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This reminds me a lot of the mob torturing the defenseless victim, a lot like it is these days. Think of it when you outnumber someone, think of how it would be if that would be you. Of course these insects are just “doing their job”. It’s not fun for them, it’s work. Their duty to keep their people alife.
I was out taking a walk with my aunt the other day and we passed a big anthill. I decided to make some shots of these little fellas. Suddenly my aunt said:”Look, they’re carrying something over there.” It was a grub, being carried away for feeding purposes.
Inkscape is a standard conform vector graphic editor. It has basic functions and is a very good tool for illustration. It’s not as advanced as Illustrator or Freehand, but you can create some very good pictures with it. Examples from my gallery: devotion, powerstation, both created with Inkscape.
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Blender 3D is a growing open source project and a very high quality piece of software. Blender is hard to learn in the beginning, you’ll find people saying that all over. But it’s worth it! Thats why you should use the numerous wikis, ebooks and tutorials found on the net. The active community sure will help you too. You can use Blender for all kinds of 3D purposes like animation, single frame rendering, simple illustration, vector based logos and much more. The possibility of python scripting is pretty popular too. The current version is 2.44 and licensed under the GPL.
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Yeah, 18 I am. So… O.o There are no real changes. I was allowed to do everything I wanted before I turned 18. Just a short notice to you all and a big thanks to all the people that showed me their love.
new artwork: devotion
