One frustrating thing about the procedural drawing tool I’m using is that it doesn’t let you store an image as multiple independent layers. As a reaction to this, I’m trying to work with some of the transformation tools in GIMP to give a sense of three dimensional perspective.
Original sketch below. You can see [...]
Author Archives: sbenthall
lo what life emerges
May 3, 2012 – 1:40 am
Hymn
April 19, 2012 – 11:55 am
Oh Father, please forgive me for my sins
I’m shooting arrows into heaps and ditches
I’m throwing without pulling out the pins
and gratifying whims of sons of bitches
Oh Mother, please relieve my foolish pride
I’m choking in the river that’s my mirror
remind me that true virtues lie inside
simplicity the thing to make them clearer
Oh Sister, teach me to [...]
“the music scene”
March 21, 2012 – 4:34 am
for Rolando Peñate
The full-size image is quite large, so this is a thumbnail. Click to enlarge.
Steve Morrell playing for his son
March 7, 2012 – 12:25 am
Steve Morrell playing the harmonica for his son.
Steve is an old friend of mine, and a great harmonica teacher and player. Taught by Paul Butterfield, Steve was a successful musician in his day before disability got the upper hand. He is now living in his home town of Stamford, CT, where he is [...]
Bring Back Classic Rock
February 4, 2012 – 8:46 pm
Sketch N Draw procedural drawing, imported into GIMP for gradient background and a drawn intermediate layer with Wacom tablet. Not thrilled about the muddiness in the bottom half, but its hard to do controlled application of brushes in Sketch N Draw since it doesn’t have layering.
Incidentally, I notice that most of these pictures look [...]
