Just messing around with Lieutenant Torres

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Guthlac

I’m in one of those moods this afternoon so I thought I would just have a dabble with brushes and produced this….

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Lunch

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Guthlac
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David Bailey

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Guthlac

Boy this took some work but I think it finally worked. I think I have started to change my style to a far more powerful feeling.

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John Byrne

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Guthlac

There are some face that are made to be sketched and John Byrne’s is one of them. This is a bit cartoonish but Bryne has that sort of face. Oh and by the way he is also an incredible artist, playwright and generally sickeningly talented person.

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Worf

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Guthlac

This is the Worf or Mr Wolf (Lwaxanna Troi’s name for her). I just had a blast making this.

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Drawing Mr Wolf

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Guthlac

Well that’s what I’m just about to try to do…silly I know but someone’s got to do it.

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Mitt Romney doesn’t understand… (newstatesman.com)

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Guthlac
A bit bitchy but true….

Mitt Romney doesn’t understand Venn diagrams
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/world-affairs/2012/07/mitt-romney-doesnt-understand-venn-diagrams

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Building and dismantling the Windows advantage

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Guthlac
An interesting article but it does not account for the inertia within large corporate structures.   I have had some experience of this and it can take years for the implementation of any significant change.   The roll out of training for the move from a Windows environment to another one is difficult, no matter what Apple might say.   An example would be how to print.   A very simple function but fraught with all sorts of problems if the user doesn’t know exactly what to do.

Of course it is different when using an iOS machine.  Here the interface is much easier, and the user probably already has sufficient skills to quickly understand any functionality.  However, this again has all sorts of problems for any IT dept trying to ensure that similar functions are available – consider the problem of printing from an iPad – great if you have access to a iPad comparable printer but I am reasonably sure that most corporate environments don’t.  There may well be expertise out there that is able to write the software to allow the interface but it is just another layer of complexity for no real gain.  You only have to consider the problems that RBS/NatWest have gotten themselves into over an upgrade to see the issues involved.

Maybe one day windows will become a less dominating OS and the world will see the advantages of working in a OS x environment but quite honestly I cannot see the advantage for large companies to swap as the move does not deliver any significant advantages whilst causing huge problems. This is especially so when most corporate user hardly notice the environment they are working in as they operate specific applications within the environment.

Building and dismantling the Windows advantage
http://www.asymco.com/2012/07/04/the-building-and-dismantling-of-the-windows-advantage/

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Ho ho ho

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Guthlac
This must be something of a record…the rumours start in the late summer…now it seems that is not the case…who knows if this true other than Apple and they never will say.

Apple is planning to launch a thinner iPad this summer
http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3367310

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Henry Bollingbroke

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Guthlac

Well I watched the first of the Hallow Crown series of plays, Richard 2nd, last night and was blown away by the wonderful acting, directing and overall majestic production. This really was the BBC at its best. So this morning I thought I would draw the next player, although he was much a part of Richard 2nd as the usurped king himself, Henry Bollingbroke. This started of as a straight portrait of Jeremy Irons but turned into something different a more world weary drawing.

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