Eric Merced did this terrific video describing the techniques he uses when drawing in Adobe Ideas.
I hadn’t thought about using the eraser to sharpen the edges of things until I saw him do it, and have been doing it ever since. It takes longer to complete a picture when doing this but practice seems to help.
How to: Hand carve rubber stamps by Two Cheese Please
This is a similar tutorial that utilizes plastic erasers instead of a large (~$20) Speedball sheet of rubber.
Carve Your Own Rubber Stamp Tutorial by Alma Stoller.
I’ve been making linoleum blocks and Alissa’s been making crafts with rubber stamps… this seems like a good way to meld the two ideas together.
Nick Cernis, over at Modern Nerd, has figured out how to send from multiple email addresses on the iPhone and iPad. While it’s specific to Gmail users I could see it possibly being useful to others as well.
Damn! I thought I had everything but I forgot the poodle.
How to Make a Friendship Bracelet… I’m going to show Brad how to make these.
I love the new design for Fantasy Flight games, especially their Call of Cthulhu Living Card Game (not a collectible card game like Magic). They also produced a flash–based tutorial on how to play the entire game with nice graphical touches and a stuffy narrator.
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