Breathtakingly beautiful artwork, and she’s only 22 years old. I want to hate her, but she’s just too damned talented.

Not that anyone will notice, but I’ve made some very minor tweaks to the site. I think I’ve now updated all the references to my employment status (they should all now say that I’m working for Full Fat and I’ve fixed the problem with the promote page. If you find anything broken, let me know [...]

I’ve been using Adobe Illustrator almost every day for years now, so I’m always surprised when I discover something new by chance.

For instance, I constantly use the cmd-space and cmd-opt-space shortcuts to zoom in and out while working, usually by drawing a marquee around the area I want to zoom to. What I just found [...]

I have been really busy lately, and have generated a lot of new illustrations that I am pretty pleased with. I’ve added samples of some of this new work to my portfolio. There is still a fair bit of new stuff to be added, but I’m waiting for clearance from the client before I publish [...]

After been nominated at the start of the month, The BBC Indus Valley site has made the shortlist of Finalists for a Digital Media Award.

I am very pleased to say that I have been invited to attend the award ceremony with the members of the BBC production team who worked on the site. This is [...]

Steven Jay Cohen has released a new version of Iridium, my favourite theme for Mac OS X.

Iridium gives all application windows a smooth, uniform theme. I combine this with a 50% grey desktop background to give me a subtle interface that stays out of the way and doesn’t interfere with my colour perception while I’m [...]

The BBC Indus Valley site that I provided the illustrations for in March 2005 has been nominated for a Digital Media award.

    The first ever Digital Media Awards launched in Dublin in January 2003. The objective of the event was to raise awareness of [...]

I have just created my first application for Mac OS X. It is a simple AppleScript application that creates a Growl notification every 15 minutes to remind you to save your progress while working.

Find out more about OughtoSave.

For Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) only

By Richard Smith, http://www.drawingbusiness.com

Download

OughtoSave.dmg.zip (130Kb)

What is it for?

Do you ever get so absorbed into your work that you forget to save your progress, sometimes for hours at a time? Although most OS X applications are very stable, crashes do happen from time to time, and lost work can be [...]

I love the Smart Guides in Adobe Illustrator. They makes life much easier when selecting and constructing artwork. But they can be a real pain when trying to make small edits using the pen tool, as the handles and anchors can keep snapping to the Smart Guide constraints instead of where I actually want them [...]