I’ve had a few requests from YouTube viewers, asking if I could do a ‘How-To’ video, on how I do the Bob Ross style in GIMP.
What I did this time was to focus on where the pointer is, and what I’m doing. I had to speed up the video (again) due to the 10 minute [...]

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Ronnie on November 1st, 2008

As ever (lately) it’s creation can be seen on YouTube:

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Ronnie on October 30th, 2008

The video of it’s creation can be seen on YouTube:

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Ronnie on October 21st, 2008

Another GIMP painting:

… and another YouTube time-lapse video:

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Ronnie on August 3rd, 2008

Based on a photo taken from BBC Wildlife magazine. It’s a Lammergeir which, as far as I can gather, is a type of Vulture.
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Not bad for my first attempt at digital painting. Still trying to get used to the gazillion different brushes available in Corel Painter X, but I’m getting [...]

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Ronnie on July 30th, 2008

Got my Acer C301XMi tablet PC yesterday. Boy is it nice! 
It came with Windows Tablet Edition installed and with Alias Sketchbook to show off it’s pressure sensitive screen. I installed Corel Painter X (above) on it and it seemed fine but the pressure sensitive stuff wasn’t happening. After a quick bit of Googling, [...]

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Ronnie on March 18th, 2008

I haven’t actually programmed my own personal Terminator robot (as yet) in MINDSTORMS but I did hit a potential flaw in my plans.
LDD
LDD is LEGO Digital Designer. This is the Windows only application that many creators use to virtually create their model so that it can be uploaded to the LEGO web site. This application [...]

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