Lately, I’ve been playing around with these two cool online drawing tools that have been wasting far too much of my time. Flame wins in terms of bells and whistles, but I think Harmony is still my favorite. There’s something about the way that it automatically sketches in the corners and darkens the lines that’s fascinating. I’d love to do a whole book in this style.
Category Archives: Software
Kuler
As an illustrator, color is one of the things I struggle with most. (Also, proportion, composition, coming up with good ideas, and keeping the ink off my clothes.) Adobe has recently put together a site called Kuler, and it’s purpose is to help people come up with pleasing color palettes.
Beautiful Dorena
One of my rules in Pen and Link is that all software recommendations should be for both Windows and Mac. For Beautiful Dorena, I’m going to make an exception. This free, Mac-only painting program is so laugh-out-loud weird that I have to give it a mention.
Google Alerts
One of the strangest experiences I’ve ever had as an author came about a few years after Uncle Frank’s Pit was published. I was doing an internet search on my books to see if there were any reviews I had missed (don’t give me that look – all authors do it) and I stumbled upon a very peculiar link. Somewhere in Pennsylvania, an desperate preacher had used my book as the core of a Sunday sermon.