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Time for another update, I think. :)
That old PC I mentioned had issues with my monitor (it would just go blank), and it was fairly slow anyway, so I bought a newer yet still used box from some guy on Facebook Marketplace. It came with Xubuntu already installed, conveniently, ...
I have found that for me, interestingly, displaying a work-in-progress almost always kills my motivation to finish the piece. It's happened time after time, and with my latest piece ("Surrounded," in Blender), it's happened again. So I need to stop showing works in progress on here. :)
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Lately I've been more silent on here than I'd like, so here's some of the stuff I've been working on lately. (And hopefully I'll start posting more frequently. :))
First, I'm wrapping things up on the phone directory for my ward:
(Yes, I realize all of ...
A couple of weeks ago I got an idea for a painting, sketched it out in my Moleskine, and then opened up Photoshop and began work. It's still in progress, but here's what I have so far, entitled "Whimsy":
I'm realizing that I definitely need to ...
I've been working on a group project all day, and since it's a video I figured I'd make a logo and background for the title and credits. Here it is, cooked up in Blender in about twenty minutes:
I love Blender. :) ...
Lately school and writing have consumed most of my time. I have done some design work recently (an ad for the ICAPGen conference, a student journal for the College of Health and Human Performance, etc.), but my art has been neglected. That will change soon, certainly after I ...
Just a quickie for now. Last week I was reading through a handful of library books on Maya, and while I haven't used Maya very much -- I downloaded a demo once a few months ago and tinkered around with it for all of two minutes -- I've got ...
For those of you who don't use a feedreader (and if you haven't ever used one, I recommend trying Google Reader), you can now subscribe to this blog via e-mail. Just enter your e-mail address in the textbox in the sidebar (as you can see in the picture ...
Just finished a painting which I've entitled "Meredith." I used a Flickr photo by R@punseLL for reference, then painted the rest from my head (her hair, the background).
About fifteen minutes into the painting, when I was still laying down broad areas ...
A work-in-progress, which I'll call "Pathways" for now:
It's unfinished. (That's what I say to avoid shrapnel and rotten tomatoes. ~sigh~ :)) The hills and pathways aren't anywhere near what I'd like them to be. I am kind of proud of ...
