The moment has come. Episode 200 of our beloved digital photography related podcast is out in the wild, in its full video glory. And to honor the event I've made a new special edition of the now legendary TFTTF mug:



I hope it says something about the great worldwide community I think TFTTF listeners form. The mug comes in two different sizes and it's available for sale at my deviantART shop.

And you have the chance to win one of those!

I wanted to thank all the people that bought TFTTF mugs in the past, and specially those who had fun with them, and took cool pictures. In fact, earnings coming from that help me to finally buy a proper digital camera, which I used to take this very photo:

^{* The photo shows an image overlay over the actual smaller mug model.}

As a result, I'll be giving away one 325 ml mug, that looks like that above. Here's how to participate:

1. Take a picture of your TFTTF mug, whether it's the classic one, the 100th episode limited edition or the new one doesn't matter.


2. Upload it to Flickr.


3. Label your photo with the roamingtfttfmug tag.
   

That's it. Easy as 1, 2, 3. You have until June 30, midnight. With the last bell, the draw closes. I'll randomly choose one from all the correctly tagged photos and that would declare the winner. Several people already took awesome photos from all around the world!

ONE LAST IMPORTANT NOTE: As I live in Argentina (yes down there) shipping is pretty expensive to anywhere, so the mug will be shipped from dA itself, as a result, to participate on the contest you must live on a country dA delivers to. Please check the list if in doubt.

Labels: shop, thanks

The feeling that chance, luck, fortune, or better said, opportunity is behind us may strike us more than once. Hopefully not often, but that deep low humming behind our backs can be hear sometimes. Some people try desperately to be ready for the moment opportunity knocks on your door. They stand eager and crouching, with a tighten contained running behaviour, ready to be unleashed and to prove themselves worthy of that opportunity. That is a hard wait. Some people take an even harder path, they turn their backs to external fortune, they start walking on a dark endless room, filled with random windows filled with striking bright light, each one a different color, and they start to stumble, each step a bit deeper, each foot a foot further away from the help of others, but also statiscally closer to find one of those windows. I think there are a good number of those people here in the internet. Those are the persons who create.

Good luck!

I start this one on Painter because it was so long since I tried something there that I thought it was going to be fun, and it was, but kudos to the people at Corel, the thing is too realistic and I'm a mess. I ended it on Photoshop, my usual weapon of choice, but I like the texture it kept from the brush tool in Painter, it must look really nice printed on canvas.

Labels: illustrations, shop, wacom

As Fingo walked through the park, stepping on dried wet leaves that crunched like moist crackers from yesterday, raindrops slowed down, ceasing to descend. Silence covered all things like a damp thick blanket, and then he noticed a warm glow growing, his umbrella humming low. That's when he realized...

Oh the mystery. Made this afternoon from scratch with the Graphire4 and Photoshop CS2. I used one texture I got from dA's stock gallery to emphasize the canvas look. You can even get this printed on real canvas and it should look awesomely canvassy. Wanted to improvise a bit without following the usual draw-scan-paint workflow. Made for this month's topic at the children's illustrators group at dA.

Labels: illustrations, shop, wacom