Another Scribble - This time a blind poet

More Sketches on the Nintendo DS

Work In Progress

Here's a little sped up video of the most recent quick sketch I've done in Colors on the homebrew DS card. I love this little application.

Tiny Art

This is a quick little post to mention the joy of a lovely piece of free software for any who have a Nintendo DS and homebrew card. It's called Colors and it's from www.collectingsmiles.com a lovely website name if ever there was one. The software leverages the DS's portability and it's pressure sensitive touch screen to make the perfect tiny pocket sketch book. It takes a little getting used to because the screen is so small but it's really quite delightful to have these tiny little jewel like painting sketches appear in front of you as you scribble away.

One of the other nice features is that the program stores each brushstroke as you make it resulting in an animation playback facility where you can watch the whole painting being drawn from scratch. It's quite instructive to see how I work. I had always thought that I obsessed over a single detail until I liked it before moving onto the next but from watching the few sketches that I've done I seem to flit about the image from place to place tweaking things as they catch my eye. I really didn't think I worked like that.

Here's a couple of sketches I did yesterday and if I can work out how to make a movie of the process of painting one I'll try and upload that too at some point:

Guitar Heroes

Guitar Heroes, originally uploaded by Mr Atrocity.

It was supposed to be Tinseltroos and my Christmas present to ourselves but we'd both had very crappy weeks at work and decided Christmas had to come early. So we rocked out for a few good hours last night when I got home from work and I suspect a little more rawk may happen tonight.

I'm in work again today, but as I have a lot of simulations to run, and most of that involves a great deal of waiting I'm playing a lot of Zelda on my DS. Today has gone thusly. Kick off a simulation, wander round a dungeon in Zelda looking up every now and again to check on progress. Rinse and repeat. Boring but could be worse.

DS Cosy

Cosy III, originally uploaded by Mr Atrocity.

Look what Tinseltroos has crocheted for me. So pretty.

Two Custom DS's

Two Custom DS's, originally uploaded by Mr Atrocity.

Tinseltroos and I have just had our first full weekend of the year and we've used a sizable part of it customising our Nintendo DS's. I'll bet you can't guess whose is whose?

Such a fun mini-project and we also finally got to the end of Season One of Battlestar Galactica. Suffice to say we'll be rushing out tomorrow lunchtime to try and get Season Two. I forget the last TV series I got addicted to but this one has me by the short and curlies.

Now we're both scouting about for things to customise. If anything stays still for too long it may end up getting painted. Stay tuned.

Update: DS Fanboy has picked up our efforts. Tee hee, notoriety at last.

Updated update: And the only person to leave a comment there says it's rubbish. Ha ha, oh well, I suppose not everyone shares my love of 80's hair band aesthetics.

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