yo!
been a while...here's some rough rough sketches done for happen...a non profit
that teaches art classes to kids...Happen Inc ...during the summer they're teaching
underprivileged kids the ins and outs of movie making...i got to talk with the kids
last week about story boarding your ideas out before "the shoot" so they can think
through the story and have a better idea of what they want to do with their actors,
sets, and crew. it was pretty fun!

color options

dropped the color in. the shadowy figure in the front was done by joel b.
joel drew the front cover of the cd. his color version is pretty sweet.

d val is going to take these images and mess with them...good stuff.
hopefully i can post the final image when he's done with it.

color version

colors were based on what finger paint we had available.

a look back

found this in the archives while cleaning up at work...so it doesn't count as
new work...but i think it's cool. drew this and enlarged it so it was about 12
feet tall and 25 feet wide. divided it up into copy paper size tiles and then
handed out the tiles to kids that weekend in kid's club. they used finger paint
and their thumb(s) and filled it in. it was a big fill paint by number...the lesson
being we are all unique (thumbprints) and that together we form a better
picture of christ. it was a fun project...although i should have numbered
all the pieces...not all of them were before the kids got them or the numbers
got covered by paint...so we had a huge puzzle to figure out before the next
weekend because we hung the picture up on the wall.
fun stuff.
boo yah

cd music back....in progress

right off the scanner. There's a bunch of stuff to clean up. not worrying about getting
the lines right the first time is soooo freeing. final drawings have never really been
my thing...i'm more of a rough sketch kind of guy. but it's been fun so far...haven't
really done a illustration like this before so have gotten to do a lot of research
architecture wise. fun stuff.

next up...cleaning it up and then dropping in some color.

Album rough sketches

superhero themed music cd...well...the music is superhero themed...just the design.
that's about it for me.
ole!

mantis in progress

need to look at some reference photos for more color hints...but in
the mean time i know there's a lot of green.

randomness

not much to say...pretty draining day.

bug(s)

found a couple of books at the library on some cool looking bugs...
been a busy week of parties, graduations, weddings...and the world cup!
GOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

oh thursday my thursday

a 3 day weekend is coming up since squirt is graduating! sweet!
found an illustrator by the name of david christiana while searching
for cool reference material...this guy is amazing with watercolor and
colored pencils...very fresh and energetic. i looked around for my
colored pencils but couldn't find'em (must be at work) so my copies
of him are...well...kinda rough because of the pens. regardless it was fun.

area 56...finished

they picked what they liked so this is the final "brand"...the different logos
are all in the same family but will be used in different settings...some are
for signage and others are better in print pieces (parent letters, brochures,
etc.) and then some are for the female portion of the population. interesting
thing i learned from d-val is that for church stuff the stuff should be
deliberately created to be attractive to men...since men are less likely to
feel comfortable enough to come...women don't care and will come regardless.

the rule stays true for the younger kids too.

this one is done

onward...

more color...

some kind of repeating thingie

I remember a present from my neighbors as a kid...it was some kind
of Gaelic coloring book...crazy stuff like shields and snakes and stuff...very
"Braveheart" kind of stuff...probably some hagis too but I didn't recognize
it at the time...lots of repeating shapes and the images were divided into
quadrants so the pattern would repeat outward...kinda like this...but
with snakes...

holiday!

There's more sketches from this weekend but this is the stuff I can show.
Boo yah!

midnight!

clock...in progress

Kirk and I have been working on building a wooden clock for a
while now. He pretty much cranked out his share of the pieces
really quickly (actually...freakishly quick...he's a bad ass)...and
I've been working on my for a bit longer. Well...it looks like the
pieces are all done so it's time to assemble. More info as it
becomes available...but the hope is soon we will have created
technology to be able to tell the passage of time. Exciting stuff!

ads i've noticed

Someone needs to think a little bit more before they put this stuff out:



















Is the couple on the left hand side celebrating because some guy
is getting his face caved in? Could it be they're so happy that their
projector delivers the crispness of color and detail that they've always
wanted? Are they happy they have to cart everything up to the roof
and unless they live on the southern west coast this happy event can
only happen a few months of the year? Are they joyous because they
decided to spend money on a projector instead of putting money
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Let's say that you and your wife are walking down the street on the
way to a wedding or some type of black tie event. All of a sudden a
fireball comes blazing down the street. Do you start running and
pulling your wife (who's in high heels) along or do you loving put her
in front of you and then start running...effectively shielding her from
and debris or shrapel? And who besides that guy with the song from
the 80s wear their sunglasses at night? Okay...besides Bono...

Somewhere there are monkeys typing making this stuff up...and
they're flinging poo on their coffee breaks...

yep

nothing to say...here goes:

laundromat

Paiger did the old "projectile vomit" trick on our bed spread friday so
today I took it (the bed spread) to the laundromat since it was too big to
do at home. It was a great experience all around as two women that didn't
look like they would help were more than willing to make suggestions and
show me (an inept male) how to use the equipment. My mistake for taking
them at face value. While I waited for the milk puke to get washed out I got
to sketch for a full hour uninterrupted on some upcoming projects. This
would never happen at work. I may need to get Paige to puke on other
large washable household items. Perhaps Daisy? She would be hilarious
during the spin cycle. You think she's a nervous dog now....just wait till
she's all static clingy...

Just kidding all you dog lovers...Hol would never let me do this...