February 2012
7 posts
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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
Nada
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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
Nada.
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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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drawnblog:
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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The Puppet Shows →
marcbryant:
The 3rd in my series of flash fiction stories.
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June 2011
2 posts
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May 2011
9 posts
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Suggest a book on Fancy Lad's
Over on Fancy Lad’s we’ve added the Suggest a Book option, per Nate’s request.
So we’ve got that going for us.
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The Test Tube →
I came across this interactive piece when browsing through FITC’s award winners. A really nice use of Flash as a presentation tool and a good short talk on top of it.
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April 2011
11 posts
brandonnn:
Toronto Comic Arts Festival: Pencil it In (by Toronto Comic Arts Festival)
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