Archive for October, 2009
Create Custom Weaves in Corel Painter
Posted by cherished in Other, Software/Tools, Tutorials on October 30th, 2009
This is a very detailed outline on how to create custom weaves in Corel Painter:
SCBWI – Blog Spotlight
Posted by cherished in Blogging, Illustrators on October 20th, 2009
This is an article on blogging for illustrators that you may enjoy if you need help on what to post on your blog.
Outline a social media mission
Posted by cherished in Blogging, Social Media on October 20th, 2009
Alyson Stanfield’s article, Outline a social media mission is a great place to start thinking about integrating different social media sites to promote yourself as an artist.
HootSuite – Combined Twitter Management Tool
Posted by cherished in Marketing, Social Media, Software/Tools on October 18th, 2009
HootSuite is The professional Twitter client! If you manage multiple Twtitter accounts or share your Twittering duties with friends or co-workers, HootSuite’s for you. If you’re interested in tracking how many people click the links you tweet out, HootSuite can help you. If you want to pre-schedule your messages or feed your blog to Twitter, we’ve got you covered.
Idea: Let us force a line break
WordPress Source – Soni
An easy hack for inserting a line break is to break up your tags. For example, to get some extra space between a bolded title caption above a pic and the block of main text above it, I’ll bold the caption text, then add a return between the first bold tag and the text, like so:
<b>
text</b>
[image]
That forces a break after the opening tag (which doesn’t show up), thereby giving me a break.
I’ve found this works well, even if you have nothing you want to format. Just insert a random set of html tags (I usually use the italics) wherever you want a line break, then split them up, like so:
<i>
</i>
They won’t show up in your post, but they will create a line break. You can also do the same thing between images by splitting the image code between the link html and the img src html.
Lovely Charts
Lovely Charts is easy…
With Lovely Charts’ extremely simple and intuitive drag’n drop drawing mechanism, you’ll be able to focus on what really matters. You won’t have to draw boxes or arrows, and you won’t have to worry about what symbol to use.


Will the real social media expert please stand up?
Posted by cherished in Blogging, Social Media on October 1st, 2009
Just found this article on Social Media. It kinda puts our cultures recent obsession with social media in perspective.
Enjoy the article here:
Social Media is Rife with Experts but Starved of Authorities.




