Posted 2 years, 2 months ago at 10:26 pm. 0 comments
Apparently the theme for this (last) week’s illustration Friday was “Unbalanced” and not “breakthrough”. I’m still baffled as to how I came to the conclusion that it was Breakthrough. Maybe one too many Jubelales? Could be. I feel slightly embarrassed but only slightly more proud that I actually spent my time doing something creative instead of the alternative (playing Bejeweled on Todd’s iPod). Anyway, so it’s probably good I didn’t make the deadline this week. This week I’m fairly sure the topic is “music“. Though I think I will check again on Sunday, or some other evening when I haven’t had 3 microbrews.
Posted 2 years, 2 months ago at 12:13 am. 0 comments
Had this corny idea for ‘breakthrough’, and thought it worked better animated, rather than just showing the aftermath. Only had a couple nights to work on it so it’s pretty rough, but conveys the idea pretty well I think!
Once it’s finished processing, it’ll be on vimeo, too.
EDIT: Dang, I just missed the cut off for IF. :( Last few weeks I’ve been able to submit up to 30 min past midnight PST but this week they put up the new one earlier… That’s what I get for waiting ’til the last minute I guess. It’s just my Thurs. night tradition.
Posted 2 years, 2 months ago at 12:08 am. 6 comments
I was never a big fan of this band (I like some of Damon Albarn’s other projects, e.g. Gorillaz and The Good, the Bad and the Queen), but trying to think of something to draw for this week’s theme, “Blur,” they were all I could think about.
This is a homage to the video for their ‘one hit wonder’ song, Song 2, a.k.a. that “woohoo” song.
I actually started in pencil and ink this time, which was awesome. I’m definitely going to try and do more of that. Cleaned up and colored in Photoshop, but it wasn’t a great experience… next time I might just keep the whole thing on paper and do watercolors or something.
EDIT: Looks like at least one other IF’er had the same idea for Blur :)
Posted 2 years, 3 months ago at 12:03 am. 0 comments
Can you tell what’s on our minds these days? It’s too cold and rainy to be summer yet too warm to be snowboarding season. Just waiting out the days…
I wanted to get this all pretty with some colors and a background, but just ran out of time. I’m pretty happy with how the line work turned out though and wanted to get it up before the next IF topic rolls in. I definitely want to keep working on it though, this is one of my favorite drawings I’ve done recently!
Posted 2 years, 3 months ago at 9:27 pm. 1 comment
Who doesn’t love a dog jumping into a lake? That’s true bliss right there.
Spent a lot of time on this one. I have no idea why I decided to have it be a night scene – dang, that was hard! Flash sucks with gradients. I need to find another program to draw in, I don’t know if I like what Flash does to the lines anymore. I like the vector freehand paintbrush tool though, just wish it wouldn’t do wacky things sometimes.
ETA: Woah, this looks way dark on my work PC. Forgot that Macs like to display things a bit lighter, might have to fix it up later. (And fix those raggedy gradients) Oh well, whatreyougonnado.
Posted 2 years, 4 months ago at 8:08 pm. 4 comments
This is my first time participating in Illustration Friday (I stared something for last week: “Patterns”, but didn’t finish it so it doesn’t count). I’ve known about IF for years, and always wanted to participate – but I always had some really great excuses: “I need to have a real website before I can start posting artwork”, “That scanner is SOOO far away and it’s not even plugged in”, “Oh look, a beer and a TV”. But now’s the time to get in there and start illusterating some friderays. Todd is giving it a whack too. Check out his awesome rendition of “germs” on Flickr or on his blog, Snugglefux.
Posted 2 years, 4 months ago at 7:14 pm. 0 comments
Recently at work I got to take a little break from web app massaging for a fun Flash animation project. It’s basically just a little movie that shows people how to use Facebook Connect in the Wacom Community site (which eROI designed and built). I had the pleasure of working with one of eROI’s awesome designers, Andy Hugelier, who put together some great visuals and had some fun ideas for how everything should move. Working off his storyboards I put everything together with some basic timeline-based animation in Flash. It was super fun and kind of gave me the animation bug again. Though it might not seem as though this type of animation is similar to character animation, you use a lot of the same principles in motion graphics that you do with making characters move (squash & stretch, follow-through, exaggeration, timing).
So, anyhoo, it’s up right now on the Wacom Community homepage. Woowoo!
eROI has done a bunch of other cool projects for Wacom, too, including: Power of the Pens and the Bamboo Touch microsite.
Posted 2 years, 4 months ago at 9:07 pm. 0 comments
I came across this fun Flash drawing app, Odosketch, the other day – when I attempted to draw something with my mouse (needs kind of a big monitor otherwise the girl’s head gets cut off). Tonight I gave it another try, using a loaner Wacom Bamboo Touch & Pen that I brought home from work. (See PB+J full size) Odosketch is cool but frustrating for me because I like drawing with thick, clean black lines – and it won’t let me have those, gash darn it. It’s fun though if you have more of a painterly drawing style. But it is a fun challenge for me… and it’s cool to watch the drawing progress with super speed. There was another Flash drawing app that let you record your drawing and play it back, but the name of it is escaping me right now…
