My wife had purchased a Wacom Intous tablet for me awhile ago and I had never used it until today. My first attempt was to try and comic-ify my friends’ band, thespeaks. First, I hand sketched the their image, then I scanned the drawing into grayscale. Afterwards, I retrieved just the sketch lines from the image and began to color the drawing on a separate layer in Photoshop.

After a couple of hours, this is my quick rendering below:

One of my friends wanted to do something nice for one of his friends. It was her birthday coming up and he wanted to create a custom t-shirt for her via CafePress. Immediately, he sent me a few reference photos and told me that she loved cutesy characters, such as the Powerpuff Girls.

After some initial sketches and the help of my trusty intuos tablet, I created the image below.

It looks like there may be hope for the geeks out there to go see The Dark Knight for free… and here’s the kicker… with a pretty girl too. If you vist The Crave @ CNET, you will learn about the contest to go on a non-date (yes, a non-date) with CNET’s Loaded host, Natali Del Conte. You will get an exclusive IMAX screening of The Dark Knight tomorrow, July 15th with her.

Even though I cannot go — although I would love to — just to see Batman, I will submit my haiku poems to the 404 team. Below are my entries


Our tech girl loads us
She makes us smile every day
Hostess with mostess

Can we say dorky?
First glance there cant be a way
Smart plus hot is Nat

Enjoy! Actually, this exercise was alot more fun than actual work! Take some time and be creative!