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Knightstand test   March 13, 2010 In email, I had a typo of knightstand for nightstand, and it amused me. So I pondered what it would be. I did a quick pencil sketch. That's not the important part, it's a disposable joke. I wanted to see about what is involved in inking it using Illustrator and a pen tablet. So this was my first shot at it. Generally just tracing, not caring about details much. It's not all that great (and neither is the joke) but it served as a way to test out how the pressure sensitivity works (OK, not great) and whether brush or pencil or what tool is better. The jury is still out, I need to play with this more. But I figured if I do like it, I should include the first rough tests to see how things improve. Oh, and here's the original pencil sketch.

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I tend to doodle. Over the years, I've accumulated lots of random sketches of things, sometimes people, sometimes things, and sometimes just abstract lines. The basic idea on these pages is for me to slowly scan in highlights from my collection of random quick doodles. I also am providing a place where I can explain what it is or what motivated it or perhaps some reason why I'm not to blame. With the sketches of people, their name may be hand-written, or there might be a talk title provided, but I will tend to avoid providing full names. I don't mind if people know who they are, I just don't want them coming up on search engine hits, since that might be a bit rude.

Note that the images are PNGs with transparency. Mozilla and Firefox properly render them. Safari too, I think. Internet Exporer doesn't. I don't care.
If you want to see the image without the annoying blue-lined background image, just click on the image.

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