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My First Kindle eBook is live on Amazon

April 22, 20126 Comments

It’s not taken me very long to get my Craig M’nure book sorted out for the Kindle. It took even less to get it uploaded and onto the Amazon Kindle store. about 3 hours – compare that to 2 weeks and counting at the iBooks store for ipad.

The book is available at
US Amazon http://amzn.to/J2cE5h
UK Amazon http://amzn.to/I6wmT0

How to draw William Shakespeare

April 21, 20122 Comments

April 23rd is William Shakespeare’s Birthday. To celebrate the Bard’s day (which is also St George’s Day, the National Day of England) Here is a tutorial showing you how to draw the man himself. It is based on an engraving by Martin Droeshout in the first folio – 1632.

Speaking in a Scottish Accent

April 19, 20126 Comments

How to speak in a Scottish Accent – just some thoughts on the Scottish accent as I’m editing my book, Craig M’nure, Kindle. I’m reading it out aloud in Craig’s weird Scottish accent. He isn’t actually Scottish, he lives in the middle of the Atlantic on his own island, andis mostly influenced by sattelite TV and YouTube (he has the fastest internet connection in the world. His accent is a bit like my worst immpression of a scottish accent, which is a blend of Glasgow, Morningside and Orkney. That’s probably because Craig is my alter ego!

The tallest buildings of Olde London Town

April 18, 2012Be first to comment!

In the heart of the city of London is the old Nat West Tower. It used to be the tallest building in Town. But all around it new buildings go up and across the river, the new Shard building laughs at it’s puniness – even with the bit extra built on top! But what we really want to see is the Gherkin, designed by Norman Foster, also known as 30 St Mary Axe, it is built on the site of the old Baltic Exchange, which was blown up by the IRA in the 1980s.

How to draw the Gherkin – London Landmark

April 18, 2012Be first to comment!

I found out today that a school nearby are drawing big buildings of London town. Here’s a lesson That fits perfectly, showing you how to draw the Gherkin – the famous London landmark building designed by Sir Norman Foster. See also my video about the tallest buildings of Olde London Town.

Dizzy DIY – a Millie & Bombassa story

April 15, 20121 Comment

Now on iPad now from the iTunes Store.
Watch Shoo Rayner tell one of his favourite stories about dozy, lazy Bombassa and bright sparky Millie. Auntie Daz is coming to tea and she thinks Bombassa has been in bed all day!

Censorship – why iBooks will fail

April 14, 20123 Comments

iBooks will fail because Apple are censoring content. When you upload a book to the iBook store it sits there for days and weeks waiting to be reviewed so it can go live.

I understand Apple want to keep the technical side of iOs clean and tight – that’s why we love it and trust it, but a technical review for iOs safety standards can be done in microseconds. YouTube does it a million times a day.

What Apple are actually doing is getting a small number of people to read the books and decide if they are the sort of thing they want to have on their platform. I think that’s called censorship – and that is the reason iBooks will fail.

By all means police the viruses and sloppy programming, but don’t police the content. In a few months time the Amazon Kindle Fire will be almost as good as the iPad and their version of iBooks author will be almost as good, just the same way that pc’s were almost as good as Apples. Almost is what most people will accepts ok at the right price.

The Fire will become the tablet and reader of choice, because you will be able to read what you like, when you like and not have to wait for the Goons at apple to decide if your grown up enough to read it yet.

I feel apple are loosing their grip again and Steve’s not going to come and save them again :(

Learn to draw a Drone Helicopter

April 14, 2012Be first to comment!

Learn to draw the amazing Parrot AR2.0 Drone Helicopter With award winning illustrator, Shoo Rayner. Find out more about the Parrot AR2.0 here http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/
and

http://www.youtube.com/ardrone

The Drawing Show – 3

April 14, 2012Be first to comment!

Welcome to the Third Drawing Show. I’ve got some of your work that arrived in the mail, just in time. More on Cameron Cupcake. Advice on Creating Characters for Books and just when does an artist acquire their own unique style?

How to draw an octopus solving the Rubik’s Cube!

April 14, 2012Be first to comment!

This was a Monday Challenge – I couldn’t say no! So here are two videos showing you how to both draw and paint an octopus solving Four Rubik’s Cubes!

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