ArtRage feature about me and Cindercast

Here's a little interview I did with the makers of ArtRage, a handy digital paint program. I used it for all the watercolor style shading in Cindercast. It was also where I painted the cover. Excellent software and available for low cost.

If you want to know more about the art process for the book head over and check it out:

http://www.artrage.com/artist-feature-michael-blackbourn/

Url and Backgrounds - Indie Yellow

Wow google can be annoying.

I was trying to add michaelblackbourn.com as a top level domain for this blog and the've changed their products in annoying ways in the last two years since I setup Cindercast.com

So after having to register at another company trying setting up redirect stuff we'll see if it works (It will take a day or two for www.michaelblackbourn.com to creep across all the DNS servers).

Now that I've hopefully parked this blog on a domain that is my name I can get down to putting some paint on the walls. For now I've assigned this intense yellow image. It was the least bad of all the choices blogger provides. It's also the color of all indie movie posters:

 So It's probably a good choice as a placeholder for an artist and indie author.

Stay tuned for updates. I'm 10,000 words into a sci-fi short story about the rise of an AI super intelligence and how it will effect the people about to create it.

Welcome!

New Blog for me. This will be a general purpose place to put cool stuff about my books, art, and work.

Blog for my illustrated kids book: www.cindercast.com

Where I work: www.theembassyvfx.com

Stay awhile, stay forever!