It’s been a long time since I just made a bit o’ artwork just for the heck of it. Here’s the final inks and colors to the Columbo piece that I sketched yesterday.

-Krishna

Another random creature for your amusement. This one was created by building form out of a few random brushstrokes using Corel Painter.

-Krishna

There’s still time to get your numbered “Artist Edition” version of Rebootus Maximus! The books are slated to arrive in late August, and ship in early September. The cut off date to receive a numbered edition with the PCW / UNcubed Sampler #1 is August 15th (coincidently, also India’s Independence Day), at which point I’m closing all Artist Edition numbered orders.

You can still get an Artist Edition book, with a sketch in it after that date, it just won’t be numbered or include the PCW / Uncubed Sampler. Beat the holiday rush, buy your copy today (it makes a GREAT holiday gift for that techie in your life.)

As always thanks for your support. I couldn’t have made this book (or the comic) without readers like you.

-Krishna

Here’s a panel teaser for tomorrow’s Uncubed! Stop by and see why exactly I can’t stand the word “curry”.

-Krishna

A quick ink and color job this morning featuring a sketch showing Bob’s front side from the latest strip. I’ve been wanting to sit down and draw more, but I just haven’t been able to squeeze time in as much as I’d like.

-Krishna

Here’s the scenario:

You have a beautiful (but busy) desktop background displayed on your Mac, but now your desktop icons are more difficult to see.

In the past, my solution for this problem was to open up the image in Photoshop and add a vertical black stripe with 40% opacity on the right side of the wallpaper to improve contrast.

Today I discovered an even better solution: DeskCover version 2.0 by DanicSoft. This little menulet (only 100K) lets you dim part of your desktop underneath your icons so that you can see them easier.

DeskCover is immediately better than my previous workaround because DeskCover automatically resizes itself to fit the icons on your desktop. You can specify a gradient background (and choose its color), a solid background, and even add a border of specified thickness. You can even specify which screen edge you want DeskCover to cover. DeskCover offers multi-monitor support, as well.

You can see the results of my desktop after using DeskCover, in the screen capture below. One with a subtle vertical stripe, and one that’s nearly opaque.

This software fits the mark for my needs, however I do wish I could adjust the opacity of the gradient to make the DeskCover even darker. (Update: this is actually possible – I overlooked it when selecting the color of the vertical stripe.) I’d also like to have the flexibility of dimming more than one edge at a time (say, the right and bottom).

DeskCover works on both Intel and PPC based Macs running Leopard, and is donationware. If you enjoy using it, consider dropping a few bucks towards the developer.

-Krishna

I’ll be drawing later this morning, inking and coloring today’s strip. Maybe around 9AM EST.

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Cruise on over if you want to hang out in the chatroom when the drawing starts.

-Krishna