As part of our “professional checklist” of things we need to have before/when we graduate I finally made up a business card. It’s pretty simple, and it follows from the theme of the website to keep my representation of myself consistent. Front and back:

The front will have a matte finish and the back should be upside down (you flip it vertically to orient it correctly). Ordered from nextdayflyers.com, recommended by one of my teachers. I’ll probably post pictures when I get them in.

Playing around with Brushes some more with my finger:

Also: My stylus came! It was a little tough to get used to because it needs to be almost perpendicular the whole time, but as you can see, it’s a vast improvement over my index finger:

I’m so friggin’ pumped for portable digital sketchbook painting. SNOOCH TO THE NOOCH.

A friend of mine had an iPhone, but after having it for a while decided he missed haivng a real keypad and got something different (I think he went with a Blackberry). Anyway, out of what must have been sheer insanity he graced me with his old iPhone! I’m on Verizon so for now I can’t talk on it, making it pretty much an iPod touch, but hey, that’s cool with me.

I was aware of a couple digital painting apps for it via some of the artist’s I follow, and having a portable, digital mini-canvas is just way to freakin’ awesome to pass up. I’ve settled on the Brushes app, and I messed around with it at the laundromat yesterday:

It’s got all kinds of rad features. You can sync it up to your computer wirelessly through the browser and using a separate program for your mac you can export .mov files of the painting process as well as really hi-res images. I have to say though, painting with my index finger is a huge pain in the ass. I sent off for a cheap stylus, so hopefully that’ll get here soon and I can really go to town.

Other noteworthy apps I’ve acquired: Pret-a-Yoga and YogaTrainer (customizable voice-guided routines!), Docs (PDF reader for all my pirated eBooks!), Sega Gensis emulator (SONIC ON IPHONE!), and VeganXpress (informs you of vegan options at popular restaraunts!)