I love art books episode 001: Overwatch Visual Sourcebook
Let’s get this out-of-the-way right off the bat. I love seeing others artwork. It inspires me… which makes me a sucker for art books. Every time there’s a sale on Amazon or I find one secondhand I need to buy it. So as opposed to leaving them on my shelf to get dusty I decided […]
The Art of Art #hashtags 2019
Instagram is such a great place for artists. It’s an amazing visual platform for you to get out and share your artwork. But the hardest thing on social networks is getting noticed. This is something I am fighting with myself. Working hard, posting every day trying to find people who appreciate my work. There’s a […]
My Top 10 media of 2018
Each year I try to commemorate the end of the year with my favorite media from the past 12 months. Not only to share it with you but so I can remember what I enjoyed. So here is my top 10 favorite movies, video games and tv shows from 2018. No books or comics this […]
Making of Page One of GameLad
Rough Sketch and Final Sketch and Inking and Colors Lettering SaveSave
My Top 10 of 2017 – Entertainment
My top 10 media of 2017. Rules; I needed to check it out in 2017. 10. Wonder Woman 9. Spider-Man HC 8. Runaways 7. Steven universe 6. Splatoon 2 5. Persona 5 4. The art of Overwatch 3. Moana 2. Mario odyssey 1. Zelda breath of the wild
My Top 10 of 2015 – Entertainment
Every year I like to put together a list of my favorite entertainment of the year. It’s fun for me to look back and see the things that I enjoyed years previous. My rules to make this list are simple. I must have seen, watched, read, or just enjoyed this piece of media sometime in 2015. It didn’t necessarily […]
Creating a Square Up Online Art Store
I’ve been sending out invoices to clients using Square for years now. It’s easy to use and they only take 2.75% for online transactions. It’s not great to lose additional revenue, but it’s really efficient. My clients can pay via credit card and I get my payment within 1 to 2 business days. When most […]
Schoolism Live San Francisco 2015 – Day 2
After an amazingly full day one at the Schoolism Live in San Francisco, day two began with me running behind. The BART, Bay Area Rapid Transit, doesn’t run on its normal schedule on Sundays so I was late arriving at the conference. Instead of being 10 rows from the front I ended up being three rows from […]
Schoolism Live San Francisco 2015 – Day 1
Today, July 18th, I was able to head to downtown San Francisco to go to a live Schoolism event. This workshop featuring some pretty amazing artists. I got a two day pass for this conference so I was able to learn from some icons of the entertainment industry. The weekend agenda went as follows; Day 1 STORY […]
Blog Post to Audio File
Yesterday, I found something great using my Mac. I normally find many great articles online about how to improve my art – Everything from how to better market myself to a new trick in Photoshop. The problem is I never find the time to actually read these articles. I always open the post in a […]
May the 4th be with you
On May 3rd and 4th I binge watched the new animated show StarWars Rebels on StarWars.com. I couldn’t help myself, I needed to do a little fan art of Sabine Wren.
My Top 10 of 2014 – Entertainment
This year I had a hard time putting together my top 10 pieces of entertainment list. It was a very busy year what with raising my son along with buying and remodeling our new house. Normally, I make a list of my favorite things and rate them at the end of the year but this year […]
My thoughts on Creativity Inc
Before reading Creativity Inc by Pixar President Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace I wasn’t entirely sure what I could learn from a book written for creative leadership. I love Pixar and all they create but learning how their company runs didn’t really seem appealing to me at first. Well it turns out I was wrong. […]
More Life with Subsurface Scattering
Subsurface scattering (SSS) is the phenomenon when light enters a translucent material and upon entering it the light scatters inside the material before either being absorbed or leaving the material at a different location. I know this sounds like a hard idea to grasp but it’s a good concept to keep in the back of […]
Helpful WordPress Plug-ins for your Portfolio Site
Now that you’ve got WordPress up and running on your site… you don’t? Well, this post assumes that you’ve read over my first post “Building a Portfolio Site using WordPress”. Now that you have read through that, let’s take a look at a few plug-ins that will help your site stay up and running. There’s a […]
Building a Portfolio Site using WordPress
When I first started my career I was working hard to manage extravagent websites to showcase my work. These sites were hard to maintain if you’re not a programmer, which I’m not. Luckily my brother is a web developer and is always happy to lend a hand but as his career has grown he has […]