http://www.drawingbusiness.com/blog Illustration, cartoons, animation and design Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:02:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In an effort to start updating this blog more frequently, I have decided to begin writing a series of occasional articles entitled **"One Good Apple"**, in which I will try and outline some of the problems and advantages of being the only Apple Mac user in a Windows environment. I started ... http://www.drawingbusiness.com/blog/archives/92 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](http://www.full-fat.com) and I've fixed the problem with the [promote](/promote.php) page. If you find ... http://www.drawingbusiness.com/blog/archives/91 If you are interested in my artwork and have visited the site before (I know I have at least one or two regular visitors), then you may have noticed that I haven't added any new images to my portfolio for quite some time. There are a number of reasons for ... http://www.drawingbusiness.com/blog/archives/90 Spam, spam, spam. I've been deluged with it of late. The scumbags that masquerade as [SOE](http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35291)s have been using my [contact form](/contact.php "Send me an email") to send me useless links to useless sites. I've been slowly tightening the restrictions on what could be sent via that form; first I banned ... http://www.drawingbusiness.com/blog/archives/89 This poor blog has been languishing, unloved and untouched, for quite a while now. A lot of things have changed since I last posted, and I've finally decided it's time to pull my finger out and start updating the site again. I realise not many people (if any) actually ... http://www.drawingbusiness.com/blog/archives/88 I've been using [Adobe Illustrator](http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/main.html "Adobe Illustrator CS2") 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 ... http://www.drawingbusiness.com/blog/archives/87 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](/portfolio/ "Browse my portfolio."). There is still a fair bit of new stuff to be added, but I'm waiting ... http://www.drawingbusiness.com/blog/archives/86 After been [nominated](/blog/archives/83) at the start of the month, The [BBC Indus Valley site](http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/indusvalley/ "BBC Indus Valley") has made the [shortlist of Finalists](http://www.digitalmedia.ie/shortlist.html) for a [Digital Media Award](http://www.digitalmedia.ie/index.html "Digital Media Awards"). I am very pleased to say that I have been invited to attend the award ceremony with the members of ... http://www.drawingbusiness.com/blog/archives/85 [Steven Jay Cohen](http://www.sagefire.org/) has released a [new version of Iridium](http://www.sagefire.org/C1827030151/E20050812201046/index.html), my favourite theme for [Mac OS X](http://www.apple.com/macosx/). 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 ... http://www.drawingbusiness.com/blog/archives/84 The [BBC Indus Valley site](http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/indusvalley/) that [I provided the illustrations](http://www.drawingbusiness.com/portfolio/v/childrens/indus/) for in March 2005 has been [nominated](http://www.digitalmedia.ie/shortlist.html) for a [Digital Media](http://www.digitalmedia.ie/index.html) award. The first ever Digital Media Awards launched in Dublin in January 2003. The objective of the event was to raise awareness of the emerging digital media sector in Ireland ... http://www.drawingbusiness.com/blog/archives/83