Jason Heeley

Sorry! is on BBC4 at 8:30 if you want to fully embrace the best sitcom theme tune ever experience. Also the *most* sitcom theme tune ever.

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A bus made of knives, no doubt.

It would be wryly amusing if he was hit by an Iranian ballistic knife.

Inventum coffee maker circa the 1970s it has a delightful shape and appealing color palate of orange, yellow, umber and white and a pattern of flower stalks it doubtless makes undrinkable swill, but has rizz for days

contemporary Inventum drip coffee maker looking like a piece of sterile lab equipment with a little digital clock makes better coffee, but at what cost?

look how far we've fallen

I don't know, but I read it and thought I'd definitely do the same. In our house we put cottage cheese in scrambled eggs, so I'm probably not best placed to hold forth on the matter.

A fabric print that looks as though somebody's used AI to try and visualise explosive diarrhoea isn't sexy. I dunno, maybe I just have different standards.

Always a wrench, seeing someone lose a beloved pet. Heartfelt condolences.

YouTube video by WalkerBrothersVEVO The Walker Brothers - Lines (Official Audio)

…and while we’re on the subject of late-period Walker Brothers, it’s obvious to everyone that “The Electrician” is a masterpiece, but so is “Lines”. youtu.be/nVb98gI3hfU?...

Perfectly captures the palette of Whitby!

Thankyou!

Good grief, I'd never seen a photo of Blackwood before and had no idea his eyes looked so - appropriately - haunted. Excellent work on the painting.

Good luck with the piece, will drop you a line when I've uploaded the brushes!

I want a Yorkie now. But absolutely do NOT want to do any bad murders.

Apple Music serving up a Joe Fagin hits album because obviously it thinks I'm a trucker living in 1983.

That's definitely the aim with these brushes. I've got a fairly hectic week but will DM you a OneDrive link at some point - assuming you have access to DMs here?

Oh - and I won't be remotely offended if more brushes is the last thing you need right now!

...just let me know and I'll send you a download link. Gratis, obvs. There's very little point in trying to sell PS brushes these days! These were the test images I made with them, it's pretty obvious they're very much geared towards expressive illustration rather than clinical precision.

No probs. Speaking of brushes, I'd finished developing an entire set (hundreds) of Photoshop brushes, just before loads of folk started fleeing Adobe. I recreated most of them for my commercial Procreate set but never managed to sell any of the PS versions, so if you fancy giving them a go...

(My inks are all the dark/black scribbles in the screenshot).

A screenshot of the art application Rebelle, on MacOS.

I've been tinkering with it across several versions over the past few years, but haven't yet had the time to commit to doing a full piece in it. I did fuck around in the settings long enough to create some inks for illustration/cartooning and sketching though. If you want them, let me know.

Also, the various art surfaces can have a massively different effect on your piece (the texture scale and base colour can easily be adjusted, although you can work on a flat, texture-free canvas if you prefer).

Definitely try the demo first. The various brushes all work *really* well out of the box, but the brush settings are a whole new universe of their own. You can do some amazing things by adjusting things like the water content of brushes, tilting the canvas or adding impasto to oils.

Yeah, I really couldn't get my head around Painter either. Mind you, I was already heavily biased after trying to use CorelDRAW a couple of times. The older I get, the more difficult it is to let new kids into the gang.

Procreate's devs have stated officially that they're working on a desktop version, but that was revealed a couple of years ago and I've seen nothing since. If it arrives and is as good as the iPad version, it'll dominate.

If I want truly natural looking digital work, Rebelle is the proverbial dogs'. I should also bung in an honourable mention for Art Set 4 (iPad only).

Krita is an amazing and generous achievement, but I really didn't take to the interface or brush options. I don't think that's a fault of the software so much as the best part of thirty years using other apps. My digital artbox consists of Procreate, Photoshop and Sketchbook Pro.

Procreate pisses all over Photoshop's brush management system. From space.

Photoshop brush management is still a burning dogshit bin. I tend to duplicate the presets I want and bung them in a new set.

This is going on the shopping list. Not one I've seen before but judging by the trailer, the soundtrack is a doozy too.