March 26th 2008
There appears to be something wonky with my gallery at the moment. I am using a WordPress plugin that pulls the images from my Flickr account. I may need to try another approach here. So, the gallery page may be on the fritz for a few days while I figure something out.
March 24th 2008
March 20th 2008
I mentioned Illustration Friday in one of my previous posts, well here’s my first entry. “Heavy” is the topic word this week and I immediately thought of the dropping anvils on Looney Tunes that I used to watch all the time…I really miss those cartoons.I switched gears a couple times while doing this. I liked my sketches but thought I would try combining my sketches with the old Looney Tunes look.
March 12th 2008
Being a “jack of all trades” (or styles in this case) is great and all, but it can make things rather difficult. If you try to hold on to this Renaissance man-type persona and someone asks “What do you do?”…what do you say? If you start rattling off a list of talents and abilities, you might impress people but would they hire you? There’s that whole “…master of none” issue, not to mention the frustration of doing one type of task one day (say, illustration) and something else the next (web development, design, animation, etc.).
So, what I am exploring right now is illo style. I have emulated many styles in the past, which does come in handy, but one can lose (or never actually find) their own this way. In that vein, I have taken the sketch I posted on 3/01/08 and put a finish on it. As Chuck pointed out, I did this without a story to start from which seemed to slow me down a bit, but it was good to think through it. Here’s the “finished” piece.
I also found a great site called Illustration Friday that I am going to take a swing at. It helps with the “what do I draw” dilemma when your brain goes numb.
March 1st 2008
So, I am obviously not used to regular updates if you couldn’t tell, and I don’t think anyone is reading this anyway at this point…so, I will talk to myself for a bit. 
Besides continually screwing with the site and figuring out what I can and cannot do with WordPress, I have done some sketching trying to get the creative juices flowin’.
I was sitting and looking outside at one of our wonderfully dreary days we’ve had lately and just started to sketch some trees, then a house, then more trees… I like what started to happen in this one and may take it a little farther with some color studies.
Yesterday, Diane and I were sitting around talking and I drew this little guy – I sometimes sketch around with fantasy characters (just sort of like them I guess).
So, there’s little slice from the last couple of days. I will make an effort to make more regular updates. I am not a talker by nature, so I need to get used to this.
