The servers at work may have gone down for an hour or two this afternoon leaving me with little to work on. So I made this doodle instead. :D I still love the stroke width tool.
I absolutely love the Scandinavian landscape – especially those archipelagoes full of tiny, rocky, evergreen-covered islands. Even before I was a fan of Myst, I thought they were pretty much the most beautiful, mysterious, inspiring places ever. When I lived in Sweden, there was an old dry river valley behind my family’s apartment, with huge [...]
So now that Patrick’s birthday present arrived, I can show it off here! ^_^ Sorry the photos are bad, I had to hurry and get it in the mail right away so it wouldn’t be any later than it already was. I put a lot of time into learning Illustrator CS5′s awesome new Stroke Width [...]
On Sunday of the Florence trip, I walked in to town from the youth hostel and went to the Galleria dell’Accademia to see the David sculpture. The wait wasn’t as long as I had expected, but the museum was disappointingly devoid of the quantity of famous art in other museums. The plaster original of “Rape [...]
Saturday was Siena at the suggestion of people at work. At breakfast, I talked with a German engineering student who was making a tour of Europe. He was startlingly happy to be able to speak German with somebody, I guess he was kind of starved for it after being in Italy. After breakfast I packed up and [...]
I arrived in Florence Wednesday evening, and after an hour and a half of trying to figure out which bus to take to the outskirts of town, I finally got to my youth hostel and sorted out keys etc. I was ready to flop into bed when the American girl sharing my room showed up [...]
I had a quiet morning at work recently and spent a certain amount of it doing abstract desktop wallpapers in Illustrator based on assorted lyrics I like. These are completely vector-based in Adobe Illustrator – I’m finally figuring out vector gradients! 1024×768 1280×800 1920×1200 1024×768 1280×800 1920×1200
Janine asked me to describe Miyari while I was visiting her in Berlin, and she did a lovely drawing for me! Although I provided more information to her orally at the time, here’s what I had written up after the first session with my character. Miyari is a runaway serf from Ywerddon. As with many [...]
I took the train up to Berlin on the 25th to stay with Janine’s family. My train was cancelled, which made things exciting, and I finally got in around 11pm, and between the cold and the long day, I was pretty happy to hear Janine’s mom had some delicious duck leftovers ready for me. Nom [...]
Recently I downloaded some 3D software to have another project in my after-work time. I’ve been playing around with it, getting the hang of the controls again, since I haven’t done anything with 3D since the spring. Especially difficult is that I no longer have a 30″ monitor on a Quad-Core Mac Pro like at [...]
