Hawksmont Gimp Brushes Update

I just wanted to give you an update on the Gimp brushes available from Hawksmont.
Snowflakes
Dark Wings
Bamboo
Pine Mega Pack
They just keep getting better.

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Technical Illustration Effect with Gimp

I came across this Technical Illustration Affect tutorial for Photoshop and thought it would be good to have a go at doing it in Gimp.
Techniques used in this tutorial:

Pen tool
Layer masks
Fading out lines
 

This is the image I started with (courtesy of Freedigitalphotos.net):

And this is the end result: 

You may notice I did not fade out my lines as in the tutorial, as [...]

Disney Pixar Cars, Cars 2

I realise that Cars was released in 2006, and for some people maybe most people, what I say here is old news.  As it was new news to me I decided to pass it on to others who may also find it new news.
There seems to be quite a bit of talk at the moment [...]

Gimp Brushes

Since installing Gimp I have been playing with brushes. After a bit of searching I have found some brushes created by other gimp users which are worth getting.  I highly recommend taking a look at the brushes from Hawksmont, Gimp-tutorials and Various Brushes.  They are of a high quality and a really nice design.
Here is just one example [...]

Gimp 2.4.2 is Available

I have recently installed GIMP after suggestions from other users that it is an alternative to Photoshop.   
The Windows installer can be downloaded from here on sourceforge.  This installer is for version 2.4.1, though the current version available is 2.4.2.