I thought I would try my hand at carving the popular cannibalistic pumpkin that I’ve seen so many times before. Just as I was starting out, I realized that this was a good opportunity to document it with my camera. So below is a little tutorial I put together for anyone who might want to [...]

So you want to stop Graffiti in your neighborhood?
The other day, I was listening to one woman ask another about how to stop the graffiti in her neighborhood. It go me think just how one might go about stopping something like this. After all, don’t you basically have to catch the graffiti artist in the [...]

So you are considering getting a digital drawing tablet where you can draw on the screen itself. Before you start researching which one to get, you have to decide on one important destinction regarding which route to go.
Tablet PC or Wacom Cintiq.
The Tablet PC Route:
The Tablet PC can be a great tool for drawing. [...]

I have decided from now on that chopcow.com is going to be my home base. For years, I have been one of those guys who has so many sites and when someone asks me “Hey, what’s your website?”, my mind instantly goes numb, due to the over 200 sites that I own.

Of course, 200 sites [...]

I have done a lot of research on drawing tablets. I’ve also owned quite a few. Through all my experience with using and testing them out, my consensus is that the best brand for drawing tablets is, without a doubt, Wacom.
If you ask any professional artist who does their work digitally, they will tell you [...]

I watched the documentary film Nostradamus 2012 last night.
What a bunch of crap. Throughout history we’ve been hearing this same thing. The world is coming to an end because of this or that. Does it ever happen? No.
In 1999, only 10 years ago, there were claims of the world ending. Not a single thing [...]

Creativity is like sculpting and to begin any sculpture, you have to knead the clay and mess with it before you can start forming it. I guess that’s what this first post is. A kneading of the clay.