Recently I was given the task of creating a conceptual representation of microglia. Microglia are like little obsessive cleaners and guardians in your brain. They tidy up unwanted connections. Researchers discovered that as you get older, microglia’s cleaning may be destructive, leading to conditions like Alzheimer’s. So I guess there’s a dark side to cleanliness. […]
Sometimes photoshop IS a verb Read More »
Some may say it’s the sign of the times, but there seems to be a conscience effort to create truly original characters in the animated universe. The new trend of breaking cookie cutter character stereotypes seems to be getting a positive response with their audience and fans. Whiplashed awakening One Saturday I had the Hub
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A close and wonderful friend is starting her first Etsy site and it was my pleasure to help her out and create some illustrations and logo for her new venture. I thought it would be fun to show the entire experience from beginning to end, so I recorded my desktop while I worked. Captured on
Drawing for Maggie Read More »
Recently, I’ve been busy doing illustration work for my day job at Science News and for friends and their pet projects. All-in-all it’s been a lot of fun and I’ve tried to make it a point to push myself stylistically and with software. For the 100th Anniversay of Neils Bohr’s quantum atom, I was tasked
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Today I made some headway and was able to finish Misty’s hand positions for her front view. I think that I’ll be able to reuse the hands for other views of Misty. Make the different hands actually didn’t take very long. While I was working on Misty’s hands, I also took a crack at redoing
New feet and hands for Misty Read More »
In between working on Misty’s new feet and poses over the past weekend. I started trying out different clothing options for Misty. The cover up I’ve been working on Misty as a character for some time now. When I work in public spaces like Starbucks, I feel kind of like a perv. It’s sad that
Clothing Ideas for Misty Read More »
While I was working on all of Misty’s different poses in Synfig, I got sidetracked and started playing in a sweet open source painting program called MyPaint. Painting tool for an artist That pretty much sums up MyPaint—it’s a wonderful tool designed for artists. The simple interface and ease of use make MyPaint a breeze.
Last month I went to the National Gallery of Art for the third day of painting Amnon and Tamar. By the end of the session I felt like the face was becoming less cartoonish, but I was having problems getting the eyes just right. Here is the video of the screen capture done from the
Amnon and Tamar: Day Three Read More »
Today I had the afternoon off, so I thought I would go down to the National Gallery and spend a couple of hours working on the Guercino painting that I started some time ago. I uploaded my progress. The video shows both days of work, together. The painting needs a lot of work, but I’m
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A friend wanted me to paint this advertisement for Diet Coke. They did new limited edition packaging geared towards women with an ad campaign that has these big-eye puppets. I took a break after I discovered that the script was corrupt for the file and I wouldn’t be able to replay the painting. Fortunately, I
iPad+ArtRage+Diet Coke Read More »
