Cajen Tutorials

Paintings and a Tablet

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Today is a beautiful day! Finally, I have bought my own graphics tablet. I decided to go with Genius G-Pen 560. It is cheap, and it gets the job done. Although of course, I hope to have my own Wacom Intuos3 tablet along with their 6d Art Pen.

Using graphics tablet when doing artwork is immensely useful compared to working with a mouse. I’ve pretty much gotten used to it within 15mins of doodling in Corel Painter X - which by the way is an excellent, excellent software every artist should have.

After I’ve had my fill of doodling, I decided to search for my paintings - and was happy to find some of them!

This is a painting I did after we went to Batanes, my hometown, in the summer of 1998. I was trying to do a painting influenced by one of our local painters (whose name escapes me at the moment).

This one I also made in 1998, it is signed Ramir, as it is my real name. Now, you know. Tee-hee!

Cajen Paintings

This one is an attempt at watercolors AND portrait painting. Didn’t turn out the way I wanted it though. It’s supposed to be a portrait of my sister - who has black hair and dark brown eyes.

Cajen Paintings

This one is done in acrylic. If I’m not mistaken, it is a photograph that I might have seen in a magazine. I was experimenting with textures here and i used a palette knife for most of the painting, except the underpainting.

Cajen Paintings

I hope to see my other paintings too. I will try and recreate some of these paintings either in Photshop or Painter. By the way, the direction of this blog will now focus on digital paintings, of course you will still see posts on blogging and monetization every now and then. Till then!

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Blog Update

Posted by User Image Cajen | Filed under site matters

Hi everyone! I’ve been swamped with work so I wasn’t able to update as much as I wanted. However, there are a couple of tutorials and posts waiting to be posted. So watch out for them!

Blogging - i am going to discuss on how to create custom pages in WordPress, how you can use XAMPP as a testing environment for your blog/site. I am also going to start discussing search engine optimization, & promotion as well as how you can monetize your blog.

Graphics - a coupe more tutorials on the basics of fireworks, eventually we are going to do portraits and sceneries.

There will also be a couple of life series posts.

Till then!

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Read more | Comments (0) | June 8th, 2008

Setting Up Nameservers

Posted by User Image Cajen | Filed under blogging, site matters, tutorial series

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I have finally decided to buy my own domain name, cajentutorials.com. I had to mull over it for a couple of days, but if you want to have branding and web presence, you absolutely NEED to have your own domain name. The process of selecting your domain name is of utmost importance as you and your site will be known by that name. This post from NetBusinessBlog helped me at arriving at a more informed decision. It lists advantages of having a .com domain over any other domains out there.

This tutorial is brief and involves setting up your nameservers once you have your own domain. I purchased my domain at Geek Domains, they have the cheapest recurring domain pricing I’ve seen @ $6.95/yr + $0.20 ICANN fee. My total is $7.15 for one year.
UPDATE: As Robert suggested, you also have the option of signing up for a free domain.

Anyway, now that I have my domain, I need to setup my nameservers, that way the domain will point to my free webhosting!
If you are planning to purchase your own domain and host it at 000webhost, you are gonna need to do the following. First, login to your 000webhost control panel and create a new account. For the domain, enter your new domain name and assign a password for it.

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Tags: blogging, branding, Domain Host, Domain Name, free domain, free webhosting, geek-domains, Nameserver, New Domain, Web Presence

Read more | Comments (3) | June 1st, 2008

Forced Vacation

Posted by User Image Cajen | Filed under site matters

Hey guys, sorry for the long absence. I was recently confined due to Herpes Zoster. Apparently, its the same virus that causes chicken pox, but this time those critters decided to use my nerves as their new home. The pain is exquisite.

In any case, I am now well. And in the next few days, I’ll be posting a couple of tutorials.
On blogging - we are going to add a customized search form, using Google’s custom search.
On graphics - I am going to introduce you to fireworks, and ill be touching on the basics,
and a couple of life series as well.

Look forward to it.

Till then!

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New Theme ~ Colourise

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While I’m surfing the internet, I stumbled upon this theme. I fell in love with it immediately.
Colourise is a wordpress theme designed by styleshout. You can get it at Themelab for free! They also offer other themes - another great theme resource for wordpress.

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