Just Upgraded To 2.51
I just upgraded the blog to wordpress 2.51. Looks like a lot of cool new features. The site will look bad while I’m playing around with updating the theme. Pardon our dust as they say. Thanks.
UPDATE: All done. Now I have to get used to the new interface.
Sketchbook Saturday: Fred Thompson
Well, it was a short run, but he gave it a shot. Star of Law & Order and former Presidential candidate Fred Thompson is the subject of this week’s SS. This is a quickie I did with Illustrator’s pencil tool. It’s a great way to get that camera ready, comic book look. Click the image to enlarge.
Illustration Friday: Tales And Legends: Little Red
Here’s a little something I whipped up for Illustration Friday. The theme was “Tales and Legends”.
“Little Red” is actually 100% digital. I sketched it out in Illustrator via a Wacom tablet. I then transferred the image file to Corel Painter for the colors.
All in all, I actually like this piece. I think it’s one of my better illustrations IMHO. It was certainly nice to get all of the hardware and software to actually work together to create a successful image.
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Sketchbook Saturday: Worms & Elves
Loosening up on a Saturday! Here’s an old one I pulled out of worms and elves flying around. The worms were originally designed by my friend Cindy way back in the day. The elves are my little creation. I figured why not let them both coexist on the same page?
Click the image to enlarge, per the usual.
Sketchbook Saturday: The Neck
Here’s a weird one with some creepy guy with an elongated neck. Just playing around with Adobe Fireworks’ vector path tool. I like it because it looks like a real pen, sorta.
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Illustration Friday: Soar
Illustration Friday is kicking my a$$. I am not really happy with this at all. BUT, the whole point of IF is to grow your craft. So at the risk of public humiliation, here is “Soar”. Click the image to enlarge.
I did this one in Illustrator. It was intended to be an homage to one of my all time favorite films, “The Iron Giant”, but it didn’t turn out the way I had hoped. It just goes to show you that even the best of us have bad days. Anyway, enjoy!
Wolvie Pick
Here it is. The first ever “Sketchbook Saturday” post. The “SS” will be a place for silly things that I wouldn’t want to put in my proper portfolio, but are worthy of the internet nonetheless. I encourage all of my fellow artists out there to participate in “SS” with me. It’s a great way to loosen up and do something stupid.
Here’s Wolvie picking his nose. Click the image to enlarge. Enjoy!
Baltimore Sports Classics
So I had the pleasure of being assigned the task to create an ad for the Baltimore Sun newspaper promoting the holiday re-airing of some local Bmore sports classics. Cal Ripken’s Ironman game (2131), the BALTIMORE Colts’ championship games in 1958 & 1959, and some Preakness highlights.
I created a series of 3 images and collaged them together for the ad. I did these entirely in Illustrator. Considering the hard deadline I was on, I think they turned out really well. The ads will run in the 12/23, 12/24, and 12/25 editions of the Sun. Be sure to check them out in the Sports section. In the meantime, here’s a sneak peek. Click the images to enlarge.
Illustration Friday: Little Things
Me and my friend Cindy have decided to try and sharpen our skills by playing along with the Illustration Friday gang. Each week the Illo Friday guys give you a topic, and you illustrate it. No rules, just go with it. This week’s topic was “Little Things”. Here’s my take…
I did this entirely in Adobe Fireworks, a highly underrated program, using primarily the vector path tool, and the paintbrush for fill-ins. I hope you like it.
I Carry A Purse
After 4 years of injury and recovery(I broke my back in 2003, long story, I’ll fill you in later), 2007 marked my big comeback to the workplace. I’d like to say that I was cartooning fulltime, but alas, I mostly do graphic design and web stuff, and everything in between. Much like a master carpenter, I bring my own tools to work, consisting of a laptop, and all of the necessary software to complete the task at hand.
When I started, I quickly realized that the work I was expected to do, wasn’t going to get done without the proper software. Shocker, the company wasn’t willing to buy any software, and said that MS Paint was on all of the PCs. Now, any graphic artist worth his salt will tell you, MS Paint is COMPLETE CRAPOLA, and not an art program, so I decided to just bring in my own stuff. I know, I know, but I wanted the gig, ya know?
Anyway, just like any other person who carries a laptop, I have a laptop bag. There is a big difference between a laptop bag, and a purse. A laptop bag is something that many professionals in today’s world simply can’t do without, while a purse is something that women carry their makeup in. In the last few weeks, I think I may have crossed that fine line between the two.
If I was to take an inventory of my wife’s purse, I’d find makeup, her wallet, gum, aspirin, pens, a cell phone, and other similar odds & ends. Seems pretty typical, right? Well, if I was to take an inventory of my laptop bag tonight, I’d of course find a laptop, work docs, and a pen or two, but it’s the other stuff in there that makes me worry.
Upon further inspection, I find things like gum, aspirin, a camera, deodorant (because you never want to let them see you sweat), and other similar odds & ends. Essentially, I think that my once very professional laptop bag has become little more than a glorified ladies’ purse! So I started to think, and I bet that all of those stuffy business types carrying those laptop bags, and briefcases too for that matter, are really just big sissy-men carrying purses! I mean, really, what’s the difference? I gotta say tho, I can see why women lug those things around. The convenience of having everything you need right at your fingertips is unquestionable. When you see me wearing eye shadow, then you can really start to worry.
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