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Fuckin’ A! t-shirts($25), hoodies($40), and stickers ($6) are now available at teespring.com/finga for as long as they keep selling. I think. I haven't used teespring.com before and their instructions are a little unclear. Upon further…

Okay, I updated the demo app so 0° is at the top of the circle. This makes me feel better about everything in general and makes me wonder what could possibly have motivated me not to do this from the very beginning. Sometimes I'm amazed…

It's all there. Happy new year. Bad Selfies In Seattle The bot.app is coming along fine.

iOS and Swift make me look smart.

Now it's using SprikeKit instead of text labels. This gives me the ability to animate the background and add celebratory particle effects galore, Going through several product names. Currently it's Finga Timekeeper. They can't all be…

Screen capture from the iOS app version of the Timebot. Getting the difference between two dates in Swift on iOS is a billion times easier than it is in basic JavaScript. One line of code. let diffComp =…

I miss Freehand's "Paste Inside". I'm sure there's a way to do that in Affinity Designer, but I haven't gotten around to finding it yet. I honestly just miss Freehand . Shame on you, Adobe.

The prototype linked up in Xcode. Still no functional code other than what Xcode is generating.

So, I want to port Timebot from node.js to iOS Swift. This is a quick prototype of the layout. No actual code yet. I've been playing with Swift Playgrounds on the iPad Pro, getting re-acquainted with the particularities of Swift.

Drawn on iPad Pro with Apple Pencil in Procreate. Bob Ross in Space A video posted by Jonnie (Johanna) Wilder (@badselfiesinseattle) on Oct 28, 2016 at 4:12pm PDT

Allyship.org wanted a play on the House of Cards logo, so they got the House of Cards logo, but with the word Queer instead of Cards. And the rainbow flag instead of the U.S. flag.

LinkedIn lets one choose a custom background for their profile. This is mine. A medley of illustrations I did for Wizards of the Coast and R. Talsorian Games' collectible card game, Netrunner. I wish I had the originals, but I just have…

A couple of layers over a photo in Procreate. The type is just drawn on a perspective grid sketch. Pretty simple stuff. Some days, simple is good.

Sending secret messages through Instagram.

A sandwich from Duckduckgo image search , traced and colored in Pixelmator . Pixelmator for iOS is amazing. I feel like in many ways it's more powerful and fun than even Procreate. I really love how Procreate lets me rotate the canvas…

The bank has personalized credit cards now. They print up the card with a photo of your choice, either from their gallery or from an upload. Their guidelines are for a 840 by 840 pixel image but that's a little bit confusing. They don't…

Our bowling team needed a logo for shirts, because bowling teams need shirts and shirts need logos. I don't make the rules, I just break them when I can. I used a Chibi Buddha that I found on Deviant Art by Patione as a reference. I…

Fingersketch glyph.

Logo design for the John Wayne Pioneer Trail in the Iron Horse State Park. The idea hit me while I was preparing for a bikepacking trip from Seattle to Ellensburg and back. I sketched it out quick in Procreate Pocket . Finally got…

A quick fingersketch in Procreate Pocket . Planning a bikepack trip from Seattle to Ellensburg and back on the John Wayne Pioneer Trail / Iron Horse State Park Trail so there will likely be light posting this week.

A less quick and simple (but still pretty quick and simple as reskins go) skin mod for American Truck Simulator . This is the Peterbilt 579 Hi Rise Sleeper . The paint splatter was made in Procreate which is a beautiful iOS application…

Designing logos can be incredibly challenging. The trick for me is to spend a lot of time with the idea away from my desk where I feel pressure to be putting ideas into documents. Ideas have to begin in the fertile fields of imagination…

A test render of a wood paneling skin for a tractor trailer in Euro Truck Simulator 2.

3D model skinning is a blast. This is just a quick job that got me trained on the tools for editing the textures in Euro Truck Simulator 2 . Now we go in-depth and learn more about what's going where and how to make the best use of it.…

Finally finished. I've stared at this way too closely for way too long to be fully objective about it, but it turned out really well except for the parts that make it look like a vacation photo from Uncanny Valley. We ran the whole…

Pulling the pumper arm out of the background has been way more work than I initially thought it would be. This tiny portion of the whole image shows how much of the original background stays in the image, even after erasing the…

The Ralph's logo on the side of the white cab was half covered in shadow, so I couldn't flip it in place. I took the Ralph's logo off the side of the pumper which was on a green background. That's okay, you can see me slowly erasing the…