Name and Blessing
Painted in Procreate Pocket, textured in Photoshop.
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Family Prayer
Painted in Procreate Pocket, textured in Photoshop.
By the Laying on of Hands
Painted in Procreate Pocket, textured in Photoshop.
I painted this one in Procreate Pocket (as I did with For Time and All Eternity), pulling it into Photoshop for upscaling and texturing afterwards, and I think I really like this new workflow. It’s more portable, for one. The smoothness of the UI in Procreate is also a huge win. The downside is I’m working on a relatively small screen, but it’s honestly not that bad.
For Time and All Eternity
“For Time and All Eternity.” Painted in Procreate Pocket. Textured in Photoshop.
Just came across the Procreate Pocket update that recently dropped. It’s good! Very happy to see custom canvas sizes (I was able to get 6000x4000 on my iPhone 8 — only one layer, but painting wasn’t slowed down much at all), and creating custom brush sets on the phone is also nice. I think it’s finally to a point where I can use it for production work.
Doctrine & Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, and New Testament study editions
I’ve just released study editions of the Doctrine & Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, and New Testament.
The print edition of the D&C is combined with the Pearl of Great Price in a single volume.
Fascinating article on parasitic wasps:
Forbes studies parasitoid wasps. These creatures use their stingers to lay eggs in (or on) the bodies of insects and other hosts. The grubs, upon hatching, devour their hosts alive, sometimes commandeering their minds and changing their behavior, and sometimes bursting out of their desiccated carcasses. There’s a wasp that takes cockroaches for walks after turning them into docile zombies, a wasp that forces spiders to spin a protective cocoon all while sucking them dry, a wasp that turns caterpillars into half-dead, head-banging bodyguards, a wasp that conscripts ladybirds into acting as babysitters.
(Cue the old National Geographic video. Parasitic wasps are creepy.)
Just came across Frank Chimero’s essay Everything Easy Is Hard Again, on the rapid state of change on the web, technology-wise. It’s really good. While I don’t completely agree with everything he says, I do think there’s unnecessary complexity that could be pared down a bit.
Also, Kottke’s Blogging Is Most Certainly Not Dead post was a good reminder to blog.
First Vision VII
“First Vision VII.” Painted in Photoshop.
In China and Japan, temples may be rebuilt and ancient warriors cast again. There is nothing sacred about the ‘original’
An intriguing perspective on art and creation.