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Let’s Show Some Love To Harddrives

Hello all! Here’s a short rumination I’ve had recently. I’ve been thinking about storage a lot recently. I know, very weird and random subject, but as someone who was alive during the 90s and seeing the maturation of digital storage, I’ve honestly been really shocked at the progress.

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The Power of Procreate

Welcome back! Hope you all are doing well. I want to spend a little time talking about procreate. It’s a relatively old app (it launched very early in the app store’s life), but has slowly built up its abilities over the past few years.

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5 Ways To Get Out of Artist Block

Welcome back readers. Here's a blog that I feel many of you can empathize with. Having artist's block is not fun, so I thought it'd be good to discuss what we as artists and creatives can do to alleviate the stress of artist's block. I decided to write this blog now because it's something I've suffered from for many years. As I got older and married my craft, it has happened much less. Getting stuck isn't fun, so I hope my experience and thoughts can help you get it off whatever rut you're in.

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Is Photoshop For iPad Worth It?

Today I’m going to go over Adobe’s Photoshop for iPad. Now, I’ve used photoshop ever since I was a teenager, and it’s been a very close part of my workflow since that point. From making YouTube thumbnails, to layouts, to editing and so on, photoshop has been a part of my life for a long time. 

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Why Animators Should Adopt A Tablet

Let's say you're 60 years old. You're an amazing animator, but the effects of time are starting to show: you're back hurts, you're out of shape, whenever you move, everything just hurts. A lifetime of artistry and being hunched over a desk had turned you're body into a husk of it's former glory, and now you're paying the price for it.

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Adobe Spark Is A Creative Cloud MVP

When I find a program that works well, and makes me want to use it, I like spending a little time talking about why that is. This is not sponsored (at this point in time I write for fun), I just like talking about this kind of stuff, especially when I think it’s deserved. 

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2019 Review

This blog is going to be a review of 2019 as it relates to my art and animation.

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2020 Production Update

Welcome back friends! It’s been a crazy fall season and I’ve been very busy restructuring my life behind the scenes. There are a lot of cool developments that I’ll talk about in later blogs, but today is going to be about what my main plan for next year is.

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My Problem With Youtube and Instagram

Now let’s get back to it. Since my last blog, I did some soul searching and have finally been able to put my finger on something that’s been bothering me for a long time.

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