Nancy @ drawger

Wacom Videos

posted: August 10, 2010

My section on the Wacom site.

Last month I flew out to Oregon to meet with the terrific people at Wacom who had set me up with a new Intuos 4 tablet and encouraged me to learn all about its features. I have to admit, I never have been excited by the buttons on any of my previous tablets, but this one really changed that for me.
If you decide to watch these, be aware that it was shot in a studio in a barn (those aren't my books, not my houseplants, computer, posters on the wall, not my wall or window... not my framed portrait of not my "kids"... none of it is mine). If you have the patience to watch all three you'll see my "flip" gradually droop (start with the bottom video and work up for that experience). It's all part of the action..!

Over 90 degrees outside and more under the lights.

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The Wall

posted: June 14, 2010

A call to do a nice juicy cover image for the Journal's new Travel section really brightened up my last week. This appeared on the newsstand last Saturday. I was happy to see that the paper was full of illustration. Double reason to smile.

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My Earth

posted: May 27, 2010

You know how it is... I wanted to do something loose, it's tight. Wanted it to be nearly monochromatic, it's colorful. Oh, well. Complete freedom isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Detail for Christoph

Another for my Scrabble buddy.

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Light My Fire

posted: April 29, 2010

When Road & Track called with the assignment of a big spark plug, my mind went immediately to the Lucian Bernhard ad for Bosch. I knew better than to open my Modern Poster book and look at it, though, because this was to be a contemporary piece and I didn't want to be influenced any more than I already was.

In the current issue of Road & Track.

I didn't have any spark plugs handy, since I haven't owned a car since 1978. And I couldn't find reference at the angle that I wanted. So, I made a 3-D plug in AI.

The profile is on the right, revolved and lit form on the left.

But I couldn't stop there, I had to redraw the shape in AI. Got to get in my vector (read punishment) time.

Then there was the dot patterns and burst stuff. It all came together, but as usual there were things I just couldn't retain from the original sketch. I'm hoping that if I can get myself to loosen up in my drawings, then the spontaneous things that happen in the early stages will still be there in the end.