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Page from Octane Render, a comic by David Blumenstein about A.I. art from 2023

Black Friday illustration app round-up

Posted on November 22, 2025November 22, 2025 by David

OK look. This sales holiday is a good time to re-look at the landscape of illustration apps and A.I. Maybe you can help me — I’m not fully across what’s out there and avail in 2025. Let’s go: 😈Adobe Creative Suite Constantly I am seeing people on socmed whining that Adobe upped their subscription price…

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BE A MAN: Precinct colour palettes

Posted on July 3, 2013July 25, 2014 by David

Not to make a big deal of it, but I’m designing the rooms in The Precinct so that they get bluer and colder the further back into the building you go. The women’s bathroom sits outside that because it was more recently renovated.

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“How cheap can you make it?” – why I’m making a TV series, but not for TV

Posted on June 11, 2013July 25, 2014 by David

For years I asked myself why Australia hasn’t had its own animated series for adults. Now I know that it’s my own fault!         “Pretty cheap!” Last year I went to a launch event put on by our state film funding body and SBS, Australia’s multicultural government TV network. At the drinks…

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The Precinct: here’s what an animated cop show pitch looks like.

Posted on November 2, 2012November 2, 2013 by David

In 2011, the Precinct team put this proposal to SBS — a proposal for a half hour animated cop show for adults. We were told it would be good to have an idea of how three seasons’ worth of the show would work, hence the enormous cast and loads of plotting and ideas. We left…

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Precinct series is go.

Posted on October 15, 2012July 25, 2014 by David

  Hey people. I’ve been blogging about my “upcoming” animated series, The Precinct, for almost six years now! In that time, I’ve learned a lot about the animation industry, and about animation itself. I’m a much better artist and animator than I was in 2006 (see here for evidence). A better writer, too, hopefully. I’ve…

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Opportoonist

Posted on August 13, 2012 by David

Meet F. Howard Handler, creator of the life philosophy known as SCIENSATICS. I’m working on a graphic novel about him and his work. You can follow how it’s going on Twitter.

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David Blumenstein

I’m a service designer, cartoonist and co-founder of Squishface Studio. I’ve done comics for The Guardian, Crikey and Australian MAD. Currently also deputy president of the Australian Cartoonists Association.

I usually write about things that shit me off, from bad bosses (The Bret Braddock Adventures) to pick-up artists (#takedown) to white supremacist trolls (The Internet’s Most Trolled Cartoonist) to predatory cults (Why Los Angeles is Scientology’s perfect city) and nasty tech bros (Octane Render: Cartoonists talk about A.I. art).

I’m working on graphic novels called Sciensatics (about cultists) and Free Money, Please (about wealth and passive income).

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I regularly collaborate with my wife, Sarah Howell.

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