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This is a little old; I realized as I was going through stuff that I never posted it here! Now this has been fixed.

I tried doing that challenge thing where you draw your character for thirty days. Didn’t last very long before running out of steam and getting distracted by schoolwork, but alas! A couple more of the images exist here and here.

Trying to explain this character or what he’s doing or why he’s shirtless gets into a whole level of geekery that I am not sure I want to divulge to the world wide internets. (Actually, I can’t explain the shirtless part.) If you know, then consider yourself SPECIAL.

A “doodle” that took far too long to finish. Mostly just wanted to see if I could properly draw this character of mine again (the verdict: nope).

They are happening. I don’t do these all that often (read: not at all), so it’s a rare moment for me. But for the first time in years, I am now unemployed, so I could desperately use the help here, guys.

$100 will get you something similar to what you see above: a full-body, color portrait of one character with a flat color/texture background. Props/weapons/whathaveyou are totally cool. The only thing that’s different from those is the image will be approximately 9×12 inches, print size. Final piece will be delivered as a high-res TIF file. Anything else that you might have in mind I will be more than happy to discuss options for, but will probably affect the cost.

If interested or if you have questions, please contact me here or by email. And if you can’t, do me a small favor–please spread the word! I’d be forever thankful for it, as I could use all the help I can get.

I am doing one of these things now, God help me.

Today I Was Inspired is a place for me to keep track of all the stuff I run into on a daily basis that makes me remember why I’m doing what I’m doing.

Final of the previous process shot.

… and that’s it! We’re so busy with final celebrations and stuff that I don’t have much else to say. All I know is that I’m really going to miss this place.

Yet another process piece for the Illustration Academy! Anita Kunz‘s assignment was a conceptual portrait of a celebrity.

I managed to pick a pretty obscure one, though. Vashti Bunyan’s story is a very interesting one; the fact that a little-known musician can fade away for thirty years and become a folk legend without even doing anything during that time is pretty amazing.

I’m gonna give you two options here.

Now pick the one you’d rather have.

Basically, it’s no contest. Paul Giambarba, the designer behind decades’ worth of tasteful, intelligent package design–notably, his work for Polaroid–makes this smart statement of the decline in good taste. Simple, yet powerful. Just like his work.

So here’s the final for that piece for the Illustration Academy; Chris Payne‘s theme was “conversation” and fuck, I struggled like crazy to not end up with a very boring drawing of just two people standing around in a room.

This is the result of my channeled frustration, I think.

Also, given that I have a few free moments, I updated a couple of things around the site. For some reason, my resumé was over six MB, which …should not be happening, so that has been fixed!

Oh hay! A process shot for another Illustration Academy piece I’m working away on for Chris Payne‘s assignment on conversation. Hope to have this done by tonight, so there may be a quick follow-up to this one.

Still pluggin’ away at the Illustration Academy! Gary Kelley came in this week to hang around and provide us with another assignment, the fruits of which you are seeing above, here. He gave us the theme of “blue”, whatever that might mean, so I took off running with that and made another interpretation of my favorite science-fiction short by Jack London, entitled A Thousand Deaths, more or less because of the symbolic nature of the great deep blue sea.

I started a comic based on this story a thousand years ago but that project never really saw the light of day, regardless of how happy I was with that one page. Maybe I will go back to it now! Once I’m back home at the end of the months, I already have plans for a different short comic to use for my senior show (as I am temporarily? shelving my senior thesis project until I rewrite the script). But maybe I will also have time to go back to this one in the future, who knows.