by Daniele Rossi | Oct 11, 2011 | blog, comics, creativity, illustration
My latest sketchbook video features the sketchbooks I used to draw my Snert Oh No web comic in 2010. I’d draw a one-panel comic during the 1.5 hour wait for my Toastmasters meeting every Wednesday after work. Then I used my iPhone for photographing,...
by Daniele Rossi | Oct 10, 2011 | blog, creativity, illustration, news
I mentioned my 2007 trip to Paris in my last Sketchbook Video. So the sketchbook I used during my trip is featured in my latest episode (I like how that sounds. I guess I’m a video podcaster now). It’s a Paris Moleskine City notebook. I highly recommend...
by Daniele Rossi | Oct 9, 2011 | blog, creativity, illustration
My second sketchbook video features my followup pocket Moleskine from 2007ish (unlike the first one, I didn’t date my sketches). I remember this time vividly. I loved the idea of having sketchbooks full of colourful works of art however I ended up forcing myself...
by Daniele Rossi | Oct 7, 2011 | blog, creativity, illustration, news
I’ve been sketching in sketchbooks for years now and have them all sitting on a few shelves. No one will able to see any of my sketches unless they came over and flipped through the sketchbooks. Even if someone wanted to, it most likely wouldn’t happen...
by Daniele Rossi | Sep 29, 2011 | creativity, illustration
The third release in my “tech joke” cover ebook series is 1950s short sci-fi story, The Stutterer by R.R. Merliss. My goal with the series is to create ebooks with illustrative covers of literature in the public domain. I design the covers using comparable...
by Daniele Rossi | Sep 27, 2011 | creativity, illustration
The second book I illustrated and released as an ebook in my “tech joke” series was Wired Love by Ella Cheever Thayer. First published in 1879, it’s about a female telegraph operator who falls in love with a male telegrapher over the wire. Yup, chat...
by Daniele Rossi | Sep 24, 2011 | creativity, illustration
Over the next few days, I’ll be blogging about the inspiration and decisions behind the 3 ebooks covers I illustrated, assembled into actual ebooks and launched last week. The gimmick here is I choose public domain books available on Project Gutenberg and...
by Daniele Rossi | Sep 19, 2011 | creativity, illustration
One of the projects I have been working on is creating cover illustration art work for classic novels. My shtick here is to use today’s digital culture references in the illustrations. My other shtick is to package them with the classic novels themselves and...
by Daniele Rossi | Aug 24, 2011 | blog, news
It’s usually at this time of year you can sense that A LOT of people are on vacation. So, in honour of this and the impending doom called “six months of long, cold, dark winter”, I will be on a vacation from blogging until my triumphant return in the...
by Daniele Rossi | Aug 13, 2011 | comics, user experience
New comic over at my graphic blog: a good example of not quite the user experience both parties had hoped for. Download, print it and use it for your September calendar :)
