Check out Paul Fricke's Blue Moon Studios Blog. Along with his topnotch comics and illos, he's got a great post about freelancing tips. Read Full Story
I recently came upon the book Show and Tell by Dilys Evans. It is a book that highlights the art of children's illustrators. Evans is the past art director of Cricket Magazine and is currently the agent and president of Dilys Evans Fine Illustrations. Here's an article about the book in Publisher's Weekly. The book is a treasure trove. I plan to add it to my collection. Read Full Story
I hope this works. My son plays electric guitar and found this video the other day. I loved the technique used in filming it. This is the cool guitar video. =2 0 Me messing around with my guitar testing yamaha... Read Full Story
Hey, check out this cool animated movie I found on www.aniboom.com! It's called I Do Art.I Do Art by Stelios Polychronakis Plus, try Shapeshifter, a tool that lets you make animation online for free.It's fun and easy to use! Cheers, Amy Moreno Read Full Story
Aniboom is a fantastic site like UTube, but with animations. Highly addictive. I predict it'll be a big hit! I just saw a fun animation I'll try to post here in a sec. Read Full Story
Wordle says on it's site: "Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. " It's fun. I haven't tried it yet, but plan to asap... Read Full Story
This is So much fun...you can have your name placed on the LRO (Lunar Reconnassaince Orbiter), which will return to the moon. Do it by June 27th. Join NASA's Return to the Moon! Names will be collected and placed onboard the LRO spacecraft for its historic mission bringing NASA back to the moon. You will receive a certificate showcasing your support of the mission. Read Full Story
Maybe that's what I should call this blog...the Negligent Blogger..... I've been way too busy lately...swimming along in the Northern Virginia pace of life. School has been over for a few weeks now and I'm enjoying having the kids home, but trying to juggle things at a different pace.This image is years old..and seems to fit the seasonal turning of children growing...mine are growing much too quickly..so I'm treasuring my summer with them. (the scan of the image is a bit funky, but I don't... Read Full Story
Phil Noto's art is something wonderful. Check it out on his website. I found the link on Sidebarnation's blog...a group of incredible illustrators who create comics, concept art, and paintings. Read Full Story
Mothers Day evokes the strongest blend of emotions. May your day bring peace, special memories, hope and an appreciation of the sacrifice, love and hard work our mothers give and gave for us. If you are a mom, let go of any guilt or feelings of falling short and take hold of the miracle of bearing a child, caring for them, having the honor of holding lives in your care for a short time and the privilege of impacting them for good. God bless each mother out there! Read Full Story
