Is this the future of Digital Illustration?

Digital Art Portfolios using Google Drive

Check out my latest video where I give a quick walkthrough of how I set-up and used Google Drive with my Middle School Art Class for creating collaborative digital art portfolios.

New Website!

Check out my new Artist & Educator webpage at www.BillVaughnArt.com !!

Art Assignment Bot

"Make an etching investigating the exploitation of punctures, due in 31 minutes." While that isn't realistically impossible due to the nature of etching, the concept behind this assignment is where all the fun lies. Meet the "Art Assignment Bot" designed by Jeff Thompson, an artist, professor and programmer. The purpose of Art Assignment Bot is to use code to produce a randomly generated art assignment using pre-selected words that teachers would typically assign. The fun part about it is the outside of the box thinking that happens when you are rolling the dice for different combinations. Some range from the absurd, to curious to actually pretty fun ideas! Assignments are tweeted every hour on the hour and some examples include: "Create a 3D rendering about your relationship to obligations, due on Sun, Apr 25, 2021." "Construct an etching with teeths, due tomorrow." "Construct a sound installation denying the exploitation of cats on the internet, due tomorrow."

"Build a photograph about your dream world, due tomorrow." 

"Make an exhibition about time, due in 28 seconds."

The tweets can be found under twitter handle @ArtAssignBot or you can follow the link here

Some people follow just to see what strange tweets the bot will generate, others follow through in bringing the projects to life. Jeffrey Thompson's webpage also provides a list of people who have submitted some finished assignments which you can find here

QR Codes

A QR code is like a bar code, but when scanned it will link you to a website online.  Using www.QRstuff.com I was able to create my own QR code which links to my new website @ www.BillVaughnArt.com

QR Codes can be a fun way to provide easy access to links for direct information about projects or resources. There are lots of different free QR Readers in the app store too, I use the QR Scanner app. Make your own QR code at QRStuff.com !

Amazing split-screen music video

Check out director Alex Courtès new music video for the French duo Cassius. The video isn't entirely school appropriate but the concept is super cool.


Cassius ft. Cat Power Pharell Williams | Go Up from DIVISION on Vimeo.

Apple Photo Editting Basics

A lot of people I've met have Macbooks but don't know that they're computers photo viewing app already comes pretty well equipped with the tools for quick & easy photo-editting. In this video, I go over some of the basic functions of using Apple Preview App for photo-editting as well as how I use it for making photos of my own illustrations look like they were scanned!