CREAM CITY ILLUSTRATORS ART MARATHON - Last Day

CREAM CITY ILLUSTRATORS ART MARATHON - Day 25

CREAM CITY ILLUSTRATORS ART MARATHON - Day 24

A crappy and  unfinished watercolor was all I could manage thanks to one of those distracting "relaxing" days where you spend more time running around than you do on your normal days.

CREAM CITY ILLUSTRATORS ART MARATHON - Day 23

CREAM CITY ILLUSTRATORS ART MARATHON - Day 22

Name that Brit!

CREAM CITY ILLUSTRATORS ART MARATHON - Day 21

CREAM CITY ILLUSTRATORS ART MARATHON - Day 20

ANOTHER BIG DUMP

On June 14th I began participation in the Cream City Illustrators Art Marathon. Of course, I was already almost two weeks into my good friend Keith Ikeda-Barry's 'Thirty Days Project'. The first couple days I tried to do double duty and create something unique for both. Unfortunately, there not being enough hours in the day I had to face facts and compromise. Now that the Thirty Days Project is over I will try to keep these posting regularly until the Art Marathon is over. Phew!

Day 14 of Thirty Days Project

Day 01 of Cream City Illustrators Art Marathon

Day 15 of  TDP

Day 02 of CCIAM

Day 16 of TDP

Day 03 of CCIAM

Day 04 of CCIAM/ Day 17 of TDP

Day 05 of CCIAM/ Day 18 of TDP

Day 06 of CCIAM/ Day 19 of TDP

Day 07 of CCIAM/ Day 20 of TDP

Day 08 of CCIAM/ Day 21 of TDP

Day 09 of CCIAM/ Day 22 of TDP

Day 10 of CCIAM/ Day 23 of TDP 

Day 11 of CCIAM/ Day 24 of TDP

Day 12 of CCIAM/ Day 25 of TDP

Day 13 of CCIAM/ Day 26 of TDP

Day 14 of CCIAM/ Day 27 of TDP

Day 15 of CCIAM/ Day 28 of TDP

Day 16 of CCIAM/ Day 29 of TDP

Day 17 of CCIAM/ Day 30 of TDP

Day 18 of CCIAM

Day 19 of CCIAM

Thirty Days - Day 13

BIG DUMP

I've been neglecting my blog for a good while now due to the fact that I've been busy with other things. I've created a Flickr portfolio to showcase some of my stuff in a more orderly way for art directors and such. I'm about to begin participation in the Cream City Illustrators Art Marathon tomorrow, and am currently participating again in my good friend Keith Ikeda-Barry's 'Thirty Day Project'. Needless to say, this is going to be a VERY busy June. Here's stuff from the last 12 days on the Thirty Days Project (I missed day 9)

Day 12 

   

  

Day 11

Day 10

 

  Day 08 

   

 Day 07 

 

Day 06

 

  

Days 04 & 05 (WIP) 

   

  

Day 03

 

  Day 02 

 

  Day 01 

 (I can't seem to find. LOL. It was just some sketches. I apparently used sketches from this day in a compilation of other sketches I posted on Day 06. This was completely unintentional. I swear!) 

 This is a series of prints I made for the INK!!! show in March.

And this is a self-portrait I did for a local Drink & Draw

Mecha sketch

An idea for a painting.

A very short wishlist for Adobe Photoshop

One of the techniques I use for working in photoshop is making liberal usage of the "New Window for..." feature located in the Window menu. The reason being is that it allows me to duplicate what I'm working on but have it at a different zoom level. So, essentially I could be working closeup in one window for details and far away in another for blocking or adding large gestures. You might say "Why not use the navigator?". The reason that the navigator is useless for working this way is that 1. you can't paint in it, and 2. if you change the zoom in it, you change the zoom for the main window. Now, my beef with PS CS5 is that you can only use the "new window" method if you stay in the discreet floating panels view, as soon as you pick one of the other two full screen modes the new window disappears leaving you with only the one "main" window, the duplicate is hidden. What I would like is for the duplicate window to be able to remain on top when in full screen (maybe though a "pinning" feature?). You might say "why not just drag it onto your second monitor?", and the answer to that is that I don't have a second monitor...yet. So, if Adobe did this I would be ecstatic.

My second wish is simply for Adobe to make brush presets, swatches, and other such things saveable to the cloud. I hate having to refind this stuff after a reinstall, or simply not having access to my standard tools when working on a strange computer.

Hazmat Zombie

This was done for an art test.

Green Fairy

This is from a poster I did for a competition. I like what I churned out on a very tight deadline.

Dragonbreaker WIP

I hate to post unfinished work, but due to other things on my plate, I'm not sure when I'm gonna be able to seriously sit down to finish this guy without the specter of other projects and responsibilities (that pay) leering over my shoulder. So, I thought I'd put something up so that it doesn't look like I've been totally idle since my last post.