My recent posts finally caught up with me. The bad karma came back and hit me upside the head. I meant to post something much more fun and meaningful tonight, but due to the circumstances I think I’ll give my brain a rest and post a mundane “Here’s what happened to me today” entry. The cold poem? I guess I must have been a little arrogant towards the end of that post, stating that though my friends were sick I…
If I seem a little quiet, you can thank my day job. Looming deadlines at work have petrified me, and I mean rendered me so wooden that a karate-chopping H.E., a jackhammer, and the combined mass of both aren’t enough to relax the rope-tight muscles in my back. I used to take my breaks regularly to loosen up a little, but since one of us left the fold to work at a job where you’re forced to attend the Grammies…
I got it from someone who, When they touched the doorknob, I did, too. The virus went from nose to hand, And by the doorknob, hand to hand. From my hand up to my nose Went the virus. There it goes, Through my nose and down my throat. I started talking like a goat, Coughing, sneezing, aching, wheezing. Please don’t joke; I hate the teasing, Runny nose and gooey phlegm, Great ACHOO and small AHEM. I can’t wait to get…
H.E. returned from a trip to Taiwan and brought me back some trinkets. When I showed them to my co-worker he asked, “What could you possibly get in Taiwan as a souvenir, when it seems like everything we have here is ‘Made in Taiwan’?” Good question. This led to the topic of souvenirs in general. What ideal things do you get for someone when you’re on a trip somewhere? My co-worker will sometimes get a Hard Rock Cafe t-shirt with…
So I think I’ve found an illustration style with which I can live for a while. When I first started doing digital artwork, I experimented a lot with the monochromatic style in Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop, in which I would flood-fill a canvas with a single color and then dodge and burn the hell out of it. Then I dallied a bit in a quickie natural media style while fooling around in Painter, but I didn’t really like the…