January 2012
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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
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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
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I live in the future.
It’s 9:35pm, Monday April 25, 2011.
I’m working on an illustration using a paperless tablet while talking to my girlfriend in Astoria and listening/watching four people make an album in one night, all on my computer.
FUTURETIME BITCHES!
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Design with your heart.
I was reading a series of posts on Aesthetic Apparatus and came across this:
“Typography is an intentionally ham-fisted and unsystematic collection of sans-serifs (Gotham, Futura, Akzidenz, Refrigerator [our new gas-pipe favorite], and some other random found letterpress type) sprinkled throughout. We can’t explain what it is, or analyze how to construct it, but there is a delicate balance...
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You Don’t Know Me (WKAP mix) by fongolia
Found on Berklee via Nerdy Nothings via Bleeding Cool:
Ben Folds, Damian Kulash (OK Go), Amanda Palmer(Dresden Dolls, solo), and author Neil Gaiman will write and record eight songs in eight hours (4:00 p.m. to midnight) at Berklee College of Music, Monday, April 25, and release them 10 hours later during Rethink Music, in Boston.
I’ve...
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As a rule, I never ever talk about clients on Twitter. That relationship is...
– Mike Monteiro: Fuck You. Pay Me. Found via Drawn.
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Plastic Farm: Sowing Seeds on Fertile Soil...
My friend and colleague Rafer Roberts has a new collection of his book Plastic Farm available for pre-order.
Let me tell you that this book is weird. Very very weird. And really great. I know he just went through a massive re-lettering process for this edition and it’s got some great guest artists (Danielle Corsetto, Dennis Culver, Dave Morgan, Wendi Strang-Frost and Jake Warrenfeltz).
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Fancy Lad's Old Timey Book Faces →
Bishop and I have started up a little project: Fancy Lad’s Old Timey Book Faces!
Your resource for beautifully illustrated book covers for your favorite public domain ebooks by artists who can read.
March 2011
14 posts