Very happy to finally be getting back to this project. This makes two posts this week! Holy cow, it’s like I’m a real-life blogger, or something.
Here are a couple color tests for another one of the kitchen characters, the merlot mermaid. Who doesn’t love a saucy lady with no shirt and a bottle of red wine, huh?
More soon, I hope.
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Following up on a post from way back in August, here’s the first color pass on my little secret project. I’m not a colorist but painting in these colors beneath the line art is a blast. I could easily do 15 versions of each character, futzing with different details and playing with paint. I shan’t. This isn’t about dialing in the perfect color scheme for each charater, it’s about making something I think is cool and actually finishing this project instead of throwing it on the heap of abandoned good ideas.
These two guys are looking pretty good I think, leaving me with the mermaid who I’m imagining to be the most challenging. I’d like to get to her this week but no promises.
After one color pass on each character I’m going to do a second pass with a much simpler palette - a one-color, one-gradation pass to see if I can make it work. In the end, these guys are going to be painted with actual paint and I should probably try to make that stage as easy on me as possible.
Stay tuned for more!
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I’ve got one of those big-ass urban assault messenger bags with extra carabiners clipped to it. I’ve got an ever-present Nalgene bottle in the bag’s side pocket. I’ve got a metal insulated coffee tumbler.
I pretty much am a stereotype but when I see scenes like the one pictured above, I don’t feel too bad about it. I might even feel a tiny bit smug with my refillable bottles.
Unfortunately that does nothing to explain away the carabiners.
Image courtesy of Top Left Pixel, a kick-ass photoblog.
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Posting’s taken a huge hit.
There is more to come though, never fear true believers.
I’m not a true foodie, not really, but I feel myself becoming more and more of one. I find myself paging through cookbooks, spending more time cooking, poking around the wine & cheese shops, all that pretentious crap that makes me happy.
So what do I come across while packing for my most recent move? A handful of awfully awesome recipe cards from the early 70’s. I have no idea where these came from - maybe I found them @ a flea market, or inside a used book, hell, maybe I found them in my parents’ house and brought them back to LA with me. All I know is that they’re great.
In an effort to do more than just post and laugh at them, I searched Tastespotting for a more photogenic, up-to-date version of each dish that I could post next to each 70’s dish. The analogies I found are hardly exact and sometimes radically different. Regardless, I had fun doing it. Hope you enjoy looking.
Man it’s been a while since I last posted here. To make up for it, here’s a little sketch of a personal project I’m beating about in my spare time. What is it? Wait and see!!!
It’s early stages yet, but I’m excited to make it happen.
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Stellar photo work from Jaap Vliegenthart. I know nothing about him, sorry.
Home page here.
“We got there when it was still dark. The stars were out, a startling clear morning. As I circled the tree, making my presence known without disturbing the snow, the clouds moved in. A gray mist descended. Silence, for a while. The nearby swans woke up creating a wonderful dawn chorus. I photographed for some hours, slowly, getting ever closer, having a conversation. Finally I was able to touch the tree and wish it, her, a Happy Valentine’s Day. It was, after all, the morning of Februbary 14th.”
Quoted from an interview in Cool Magazine, talking about shooting in Hokkaido, Japan.
A slew of great photographs here, including several very nice non-landscape shots:
Silent World by Michael Kenna: “”
Homepage here.
(Via Invisible Creatures.)
I’ve had this image open a browser tab for well over a week now, planning on writing a post about how cool I think it is - how it captures pulp & noir fiction so well and how I especially like it as it’s by John Coleman Burroughs, son of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Well, it’s clear to me now that in the midst of a move and a crazy work schedule that a full post about this won’t happen anytime soon. Therefore, I simply present you this great piece of noir illustration and encourage you not to miss the simplicity and bluntness of the brushstrokes, the not-at-all subtle palette that tells you where to look and the absence of any sense that the nooses are tied to something. It’s great stuff.
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Then:
and now:
I don’t play D&D anymore (though I have a serious yen to start up a campaign) but I still pay attention to it. It was a pretty big part of my childhood. Yeah, big surprise I know.
There’s a new edition of the ruleset out, 4th edition, and no small amount of internet ink has been spilled on it. As I’ve not played it I can’t weigh in on it - but I have looked at the pictures. Wayne Reynolds seems to be the de facto artist of D&D today and I think his stuff is great…but is it D&D?
Instead of writing up my half-baked thoughts on the matter, allow me to link to a couple of posts by James Maliszewski of Grognardia, one of the more interesting RPG blogs. I can’t say that I entirely disagree with what he’s saying:
Grognardia: Not Your Father’s PHB
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