drawings & illustrations
Hanafuda (Japanese “flower cards”) is a favorite from childhood. My parents grew up in Hawaii and taught me to play Hawaiian-style Koi Koi (or Sakura) using these cards.
I’ve reworked a couple cards that seem to suit a cautious cat (“Pine and Housecat”) and an excitable dog (“Clover and Small Dog”).
Here are the original playing cards:
“Pine and Crane” and “Clover and Wild Boar”
It has nothing to do with salt, tires or salty language. A saltire is the diagonal cross used in many flag designs, including the flags of Scotland and Jamaica.
I first learned about saltires (and their use in flag designs) while searching for an simple way to divide a rectangle into matching pairs of triangles. This tutorial might not be as entertaining as Sheldon Cooper’s “Fun with Flags” videos (from The Big Bang Theory), but you’ll find out a a few flag facts and learn how to create an easily customizable saltire flag. Continue reading “How to Create a Saltire Flag in Adobe Illustrator”
The interwebs demand that new sites have a first post or page, so this is mine.
I’m expecting this site to become part online illustration/comics portfolio, and part digital/analog art technique and production blog. In a few months (or years) it might become a 404 Not Found error, but I can’t worry about that now. After all, I’ve already paid for two years of web hosting. 😉
Take a look at the About page if you’re curious about why this site exists.
Thanks for visiting!
-Dan
May 25, 2016
Let me regale you with tales of my adventures in Casablanca.
See another version of the fez fish at Night of the Cuppa.
