February 2012
23 posts
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Creative Tally: 25
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New Samurai Duel screens from the beta
I drunk tested the crap out of this game. It’s going to make me buy an iPad, making it a 509.99 dollar video game.
fancyladsacademy:
Here are some screens from the Samurai Duel beta! We are on the fast track to submit the game to Apple this weekend. As you can see we are going for a minimal look with simple touch controls. Samurai Duel is a two-player battle of speed and accuracy...
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Tight Fit opens March 2nd
I’ma going.
bishopia:
Eight DC artists squeeze their small works into The Dunes for an intriguing exhibition!
Chris Bishop
Scott Brooks
Jared Davis
Anna U. Davis
Dana Ellyn
Emily Greene Liddle
Matt Sesow
Andrew Wodzianski
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, March 2nd
7:30-10:30 pm
Show runs March 2nd - 28th, 2012
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Creative Tally: 24
Sketched a book cover for Marc’s Kindle collection of shorts.
Figured out the visuals for some tricky navigation for a client at The Day Job.
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Creative Tally: 23
Finished a illustration for a Giant War text piece.
Got concept sketch of a commission off to a freelance client.
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Creative Tally: 22
Recolored the original page for the Giant War.
Colored and inked another page for the Giant War.
Figured out what to do for a commission.
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Creative Tally: 21
A page for the Giant War penciled and half inked.
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Creative Tally: 20
Got the tumblr site all set up for The Giant War, finally.
Sketched spot illos for two Giant War pieces.
Explored data visualization and began design of data visualization needs for client at The Day Job.
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Joe has been working on The Great Pacific for a while now, but he needs help getting it over the finishing line. The Kickstarter Fund will be used to help pay his artist, editor, designer, and letterer on the project, which is what Kickstarter is for.
From the Kickstarter page:
Great Pacific is a full-color sci-fi adventure comic book series set to debut in the US comics market in October...
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Creative Tally: 19
Refined type treatments for Client at the Day Job.
Revised concept art for pitch at the Day Job.
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Creative Tally: 18
Spent all night hooking up my Giant War template up to Tumblr. Still not done. Grumble. Grumble.
Got color type treatments off to a Client at the Day Job.
Designed about a dozen elements to be implemented on an upcoming site launch at the Day Job.
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Creative Tally: 17
Thumbnailed a piece for The Giant War. Probably the first piece that’ll run.
Thumbnailed another piece that may or may not run on The Giant War. Marc and I haven’t decided yet.
Worked with Joe to set up a page to support his upcoming Kickstarter project.
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Creative Tally: 16
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These aren’t the most exciting posts in the world, but the Tally keeps me honest.
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Creative Tally: 15
Finished the site template for The Giant War
Worked with Marc to plan what to kick off The Giant War with.
Designed form and page elements for a client at The Day Job.
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Creative Tally: 14
Started coding the Tumblr theme for The Giant War.
Emergency CSS tweaks to a project at the Day Job.
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DC Conspiracy: MAGIC BULLET #4 - Release party at... →
dcconspiracy:
We are having a release party for Magic Bullet #4! Magic Bullet is a FREE newspaper-sized comics anthology put out by D.C. Conspiracy, a group of local comics creators. So come celebrate the newest issue with us on Saturday, March 3! Many of the contributors will be there, original…
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Creative Tally: 13
Got the first Giant War piece lettered and up for Marc to see.
Started coding the Giant War site (It’ll be up on Tumblr at http://thegiantwar.tumblr.com).
Concept sketches for interesting client project at the Day Job.
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Creative Tally: 12
Colored the first piece for the The Giant War.
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Creative Tally: 11
Refined type treatment options for a client at the Day Job.
Got the inks down for the first Giant War piece.
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Creative Tally: 10
Printed out some blue line grids for drawing.
Pencils for a Giant War piece off to Marc.
Logo sketches off to the bosses for a Day Job client.
Planned an interesting project deliverable for another Day Job client.
January 2012
16 posts
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Creative Tally: 09
Adapted Ray’s IPad grid into a quick & dirty template for digest sized art (based on MagCloud’s dimensions).
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Creative Tally: 08
Thumbnailed out two pieces for a project with Marc called The Giant War.
Thought a lot about The Giant War. Which means I just sorta stared at my computer and at a blank piece of paper. This is actually really important to my process. Seriously.
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Creative Tally: 07
Letters done, approved by Marc, and final art uploaded to the server for the Magic Bullet page.
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Creative Tally: 06
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Creative Tally: 05
Got the inks & tones for the Magic Bullet page off to Marc. Got the thumbs up!
Doodled idea for a Jungle Book cover for Fancy Lad’s.
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Creative Tally: 04
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Creative Tally: 03
Got the spot blacks and main inks done on the Magic Bullet page. Got some tones down too. Stuck on some background design elements though.
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Creative Tally: 02
Finished a comp for internal review at the Day Job.
Drafted a type treatment for internal review at the Day Job.
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Creative Tally: 01
Worked on comps for a project at The Day Job.
Provided some UX Oversight on another project at The Day Job.
Brainstormed how Giants look and operate with Marc.
Tried to find some public domain images of flying squirrel skeletons for Marc’s and mine story in Magic Bullet #4. Unsuccessful.
Decided to start doing this daily checklist of what I did creatively (definition of creatively will...
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December 2011
2 posts
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Watchdrawnblog:
THIS! THIS! And it’s one of a number of videos about and by Ed Emberley on Lynda.com.
(via Tutorials | Ed Emberley Children’s Book Illustrator
Still a major inspiration.
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August 2011
5 posts
Whoops.
I hit the wrong button and replaced my Tumblr theme. Good thing I’m re-working my site.
Double whoops.
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July 2011
7 posts
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