Dark forces

nuff said

here we are, a delightful tuesday afternoon.
way after noon.
i was up too late last night watching viral videos and generally wasting my time.
i got up late today so to speed things along i finished inking and put some polish on a sketch i did of logan from 'logan's run' back when my brother and i watched it some ago.
on the agenda for today is to finish my freebie space con book, and put some work into a business card.

15 MINUTES FAST!

Ok, so I started trying to complete the things on my mind in 15 minute increments.However, I found this ideal only really works for sketches, nearly finished pieces, and non- art related projects. I'm still going to use it and after my post you'll understand why.

This week I hung out with my nephew and had too much fun.But, thanks to my 15 minute method I still was able to maintain a nice flow of production. I rejoined the ranks of professional influencesors known as teachers. Here is my cartoon event flyer. If you know of any kids 7-10 who art starting to know more about art than you can handle look into a summer drawing course, I wish I would've been in one, that's for sure.
Now that I'm done with that plug...lol. I've been doing 15 mins. practice on several pieces and Mega Manjust happens to be one of the ones I'm practicing on. We're getting close, but,for some reason some details I can't seem to figure. This particular style is supposed to have an ambiguous lighting effect.If the light source follows natural law,the image just plain sucks...I've seen it...it's not pretty.But,this image is more complex even given the subject matter.Take a look at my progress.
I'll be finished soon, but,may take a serious look at prActicing on this one again.

Last is a painting that will be done by next Sunday.This is a fourth project but, I love using gouache like materials...lol....lol. It's a platypus.There are more of these to come btw.I at least must do a Chicken or chick, an Orca, and a Fox. Watch out for tiny animals you just might get one.

Using my Mega copy ability two posts in a row, just seemed fashionable. So every one check out "The Faun & Ivy". This is the second time I did the shadows and you know what, I may redo them. He looks to me more evil than I'd like him to look. Though I love the "Eleventh Hour" I need to not make my most current posts them. I just get sleepy. I wish I could never sleep but, alas, my mortal frame needs a recharge every now and again. So , for the sake of sleep and sparing your eyes from the rest of my mumbo jumbo, here is my Faun.Remember sports fans this is only first level shadows, more to come. If this works out well, I may have to subject the old sexy minotaur to a similar treatment.

Perfect Practice makes perfect

Practiced a style I'm all too familiar with but, I was seriously in need of taking some creative licence. This piece is really just a practice to warm up. I can't always just jump in to painting digitally yet. So, for 30 mins I practice a new style. I am hoping to finish this one soon. These cartoons are always a pleasure to work on,but, between me and you they are simply beautiful fodder.Mega Man & Rush, I figured was good fun before working on one of the glossiest pics I've ever worked on. I'll be posting the sketch after I finish this pic.

rookie.

well, it's been about twelve hours since my last post.
what have i been up to you ask?
flashin'.
and after that i put on some pants and tried to make a flash cartoon.
it was clearly a mixed success. but i'll take it.
the file is a giant. the cartoon is only about five seconds long and it's 15MB, too large to email to my brother even!
i used gif files to animate since the art program of flash and i don't get along. the gifs were grainy too. so i'm going to try again, this time using vector chunks colored in illustrator. which really boils my kettle since i spent the time to color it once already.
oh well, live and learn, eh?



^here's the canadian brawler put together and on his background. the background i slopped together using photoshop and some fancy filters. it only took, like, ten minutes. if only everything were so easy.



^here wolvie is cut apart.
it's like sawing a lady in half on stage and then trying to put her back together while you assemble a jigsaw puzzle.
i need to take a class is this stuff.

i'll try and get a video up here some other time. i'm too eroded to handle that right now.

let's go, bub.

there is a scant half an hour left in tuesday.
but half an hour is all i need. hell, it's more than i need!

i just got back from a delightful outing with my partner in crime, ronald, whose faun can be seen in the post below. we both ate more spoon bread than we should have, and it was clear that our waitress was flirting with one of us. but which one? ronald was clearly her early favorite, and who can blame her?

i had a photoshop snafu earlier today, but that's fixed now, thanks to ron. i should have paid for his dinner, but i didn't, because i'm a sorry sack of... well, spoon bread at this point.

i have another wolverine for you.
he may not look like anything special, just an inked version of the sketch i posted last time around. but make no mistake my friends, he's very much a cut above. by drawing on tracing paper i broke him into tiny chunks. the point of which was to help him go past two dimensions. 3d, you ask? why no, 3d is for suckers and million dollar blockbusters. i say skip the 3d and move straight into 4d.
since i'm a rookie at this whole animating business i don't know if i can upload an animated file on here, but at the very least i'll set you up with a colored image and a link to where it can be viewed.
but i'm getting ahead of myself, he isn't anywhere near done yet.
so i'm off to work.



how do i know the waitress was flirting with us?
she didn't say "come back and see us again." at the end of our meal.
she said, "come back and see me again."
dirty little minx.
truth be told, it's the steak fajitas that i'll be back for.
i'm addicted.

Posting time again and I've got a lot to say. This weekend I was preparing for SPACE Con. I was over thinking it unmercifully. I realized I didn't really have the time to over think or do as much as I wanted. After much thought and hours of planning I realized what I want to actually do.
Though, I'm not going to post every idea and project I do, I am going to post the progress of a few. Here is "The Faun & Ivy" redrawn, this had to be redrawn in order to do what I want in PS.
It's not much of a post but it is progress.

I got pretty far on some things today and while tomorrow is a long day,It's imperative that I stayed focused on my highest priority tasks. I'm dreadfully tired now so, I'm signing off. Stay tuned for more Thursday.

the wolvering says "snikt!"

friday means update day!
man, i was really hoping to have this baby further along, but the base sketch will have to suffice... for now!
i have plans for this drawing, oh the plans i have!



being the my formative years in comics were in the 90's it should come as no surprise that i love wolvie.

Small Town Jedi

I got back from the gym and fell to exhaustion. I was worried about my post and while I made some progress on "The Faun & Ivy" piece, I felt I would do better posting our familiar green sage (which is also green) Yoda. I rediscovered the magic of IM thanks to a good friend and new fan of the site( YAY!) and her electronic presence was awesome to have while this little guy was being finished. Anyone visiting please check her blog www.smalltownsentiments.com, she has some interesting new pets and I wouldn't say it if it weren't true.

Set 3 has taken a bit longer than I planned. I'm also afraid after completing set 4 I am going to take a hiatus of the SW Decals only to resume after SPACE Con. I have illustrations to do and only 24 days to do them. Stay Tuned ladies and gents this ride is far from over.

This also must be said, Nate, I formally congratulate and welcome you to the digital world, I know you're already coming up with something to blow our minds. I said it once and I'm saying it again "We are a Force!"