I learned that I suck at sculpture (haha) and yet I have all the tools and knowledge that I should to be able to bust something out! My professor can see it in my drawing and yet, I wasn’t able to apply it to a three dimensional medium. At some point I will and I fully intend to add another sculpture class to my schedule this term or the next. I refuse to give up! At this point, my knowledge exceeds my ability and for a while I had achieved a pretty good balance of both. This is why I am at gnomon.

I have uploaded some new images. Two are from my Visual Communcations 2 final. The idea was to draw a pair of twin characters–either opposites, or complimentary. I had the hunter-seekers in my head for a while, so I added an air-like spirit to the mix, as his opposite. Where he is dark, brooding, bulky and terrifying, she is light, airy, svelte and cheerful. The other image is for a commission I busted out in last night in a few hours.

Please enjoy. I know I did when I created the images.

And I certainly did for my Visual Communication final. A pot of 100 bucks was awarded to the best final in the class. It ended up as a tie between myself and fellow student Eduardo Borrego, and we split the pot even-steven.

I have uploaded several new pieces of work from my various finals. All of them done in photoshop. I find myself slowly moving away from Painter and back into Photoshop, which is something I had been meaning to do for a while now. I just love the brush system and over-all the stability and editing tools. Painter is still great for the media effects, the glow brush and blending tools, but I find that I am not having any more issues with blending in photoshop. I haven’t worked this clean in years and I am just cranking this stuff out.

I will also be redesigning my site over break, I hope, between working on commissions. I swear, I will get back to work!

I do a good job at hiding the fact that I want to run away and hide. I am not very good at being out-going, and it is something I am slowly working on. In our Overview of Visual FX and Gaming, our professor (I really shouldn’t call him that, he’s a little too cool for the title ‘professor’) wants us all to be outgoing, make contacts, talk to people–and our class is so quiet. I said I would talk just for te sake of talking now, but that I would probably end up saying some really stupid things. He said instant A. Very well then!

Blizzard. Did I mention we went to Blizzard on friday? I can’t tell you anything about it because I signed my soul away with an NDA agreement, but Fausto de Martini gave us the tour of the studio. It is very relaxed, very casual and just looks like a fun place to work. Blizzard is still on my list of top three studios that I do want to work for. If you look in my portfolio, I am sure that isn’t very obvious at all. I got to see all the Blizzard statues in person–the one of Kerrigan is amazing! I had seen Steve Wang’s myspace photos of the process, which in itself was impressive, but seeing it in person is incredible.

Oh? You don’t believe me that I went to Blizzard? Hmm.

I am considering doing commissions on a small basis. I recently completed a piece of work for a friend (it was a gift, really) and she said that I should take a closer look at deviantart again and do commissions. I know, I know, deviantart-blegh. That’s how I feel about the site, but, it’s a good way to get some exposure at least. I haven’t done much with deviantart since I was in college, if that gives you any indication of how dead my account is.

Other BIG news. I will be attending the Gnomon School of Visual Effects for their one year entertainment design course! This is a HUGE change for me. Not only am I going back to school, but I will be moving across the country from Maine to LA! Phew. Guess I should start packing, huh? Hmm.

I just realized I admitted to not having as much experience in Illustrator as I do Photoshop or Painter. Oops. I still love the program and I think I will do more work in Illustrator in the future. My brother suggested I do a whole series of similiarly styled illustrations, but of literary monsters. That idea tickles me too.

Oh, you wanted to see the image?

The most obvious being a new design. I felt like playing around in illustrator and working out a new logo or header image. I love grunge, but, it felt sloppy to me. And I hate sloppy.

Secondly, I decided I didn’t like that anyone had to click on ‘enter here’ to get to the bulk of my site. What is that? So… 1999?

Thirdly, I also decided to split up my site into the main content area, when you first visit the site. Has basic information on it, it’s static, doesn’t change. In addition, I wanted to keep my updates available so anyone who visited the my site could see what I was working on, my thought process, and, whatever interests me–if they care. Unlikely? Probably.This has lead me to use this space as my ‘development blog.’ News, updates, new art, walkthroughs, gaming shenanigans, it’s all here.

Oh. I spelled shenanigans right the first time. Impressive.

This part of the site will have a sidebar. It will list categories, post dates, tags, whatever, to make it all that must easier.

As a side note, I’m horrified I’m considering registering to twitter. Like anyone cares what I had for breakfast.