Illustration
Recently, I've been practicing my vector character creation skills using good-old Illustrator. It's been pretty fun, so you'll probably see some more similar posts in the coming weeks. Then it'll be time for some After Effects animation drills!
Another experiment with basic shapes. This time I decided to add some color.
This simple illustration is a bit of a metaphor for life. Pretty deep. ;)
My dad asked me to draw on a couple Halloween gift bags he was planning to a few kiddies in the neighborhood.
Another illustration appropriate for the season, plus some more experimenting with photoshop coloring. I think it's time to put a Wacom or iPad Pro on the dream board. ;)
I decided to do something Halloween themed today. Usually, I start with a hand-drawn image which gets touched up in photoshop, then imported into illustrator for some live tracing and coloring. This time, I skipped the Illustrator part and just did the coloring in photoshop. This allowed me to retain a bit more detail in the image.
Working at Proper Cup Coffee Shop this afternoon. Drew a quick sketch of my french press in between job searching.
Freeing the brain today by doing a little doodling. I just started with one line on a blank page and decided to fill the whole thing with squares.
I watched The Secret today. Figured I should put some of the concepts into practice and see what happens. Starting by visualizing a bunch of money coming my way. Couldn't hurt. ;)
For some reason, I was inspired to draw a quick sketch of a bum wearing a garbage bag. Once I got going, I realized he needed a dog companion. Both of their names are Butch.
A friend and I are working on creating a new card game called Hidden Forces: Robo Wars. It is a two-player battle game pitting two robot armies against each other. Think Magic the Gathering meets Stratego and you'll get the basic idea. It has been a lot of fun to work on so far.
We conceived of the idea a number of months ago and first started testing and tweaking the basic concept with a normal deck of playing cards. It wasn't long until I was inspired to create an actual deck for us to work with. These really helped bring the idea to life. Now, after more playtesting, we're nearly ready to send the prototype off to the printer to get some sample decks printed so we can have even more people test it. First, I needed to create another couple illustrations for the last few cards we needed in the prototype deck.
Below are those final two illustrations I worked on today. Perhaps I'll share some of the other stuff on here at a later date.
A few years ago, I started a blog called Something Creative Every Day where I posted photos, illustrations, designs, short films, and any other creative work that I was producing at the time. I conceived of the concept during a creatively stagnant period of my life, and I hoped the blog would help inspire me out of the funk I was in. Luckily, it did.
I kept up the daily work for nearly two years. Soon enough, I was out of an uninspired job and into one that was much more satisfying. Although keeping up the blog was often a challenge, it did help me through a very tough time and usher in a phase of creative joy and job fulfillment. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on the circumstances) not everything in life stays the same. In fact, one thing is for certain, change is inevitable.
I find myself feeling a bit creatively stagnant as of late, so I'll take a page out of my old playbook and start a blog to get the juices flowing again because...