Here’s a sweet discovery (if you pardon the pun). Godiva tins make great holders for Moo cards! Starbucks have similar tins but you have to distort them a bit in order to make the Moo cards fit. The Godiva tins are a little longer than the cards but widthwise, they are perfect.
I’ve uploaded the final set of progress photos of the paintings I’m working on. You’ll see them on my Flickr set called Paintings in Progress. The reddish one is complete (the one in the photo above). The blueish one will take a while. Check out the photos to see why.
SpudCast number nineteen is up. Best of all, it’s short!
The main theme of today’s show is be begging and pleading you to send in comments and tell me about yourself :) Also, a friend drops by to teach us Spanish and I give a brief mention of the upcoming PodCamp Toronto 2008.
Sorry about the over large video. I’ve had an impromptu epsiode of Sketchy Adventures tonight on Ustream. Nothing too riveting. I found out I can’t draw :P Ok seriously, it’s a short show because, well, I didn’t have enough time. Next time for sure.
My apologies for also taking a while to position the webcam. Makes for truly riveting viewing.
I received my first order of MOO cards tonight! I made them for my Stuttering is Cool podcast and I must say, I am very, very impressed with their quality and attention to detail! I’ll post photos of what I mean when I receive my second order which I placed a few day later. That order is for my danielerossi.ca site which I plan on handing them out at PodCamp Toronto on the weekend of February 23.
It’s been a while since my last post so here’s a quickie featuring my latest uplaod to Flickr: a painting I’ll be occupying what’s left of my spare time. Like my Comic in Progress, which I posted last year, I’ll be posting photos of my progress.
Kicking off my self-declared Year of Creativity is a list I reconstructed listing how using a pencil is better than a computer. “Reconstructed” because it’s a list I originally made for rec.arts.animation waaaaay back in the mid 90s when 9600 baud dial-up was all the rage.
The inside joke was really about hand drawn animation vs. computer and how people tend to think using a computer will make them artists.
Unfortunately, I’m not able to find my original post. Perhaps it was posted under a different animation group or maybe a forum. So without further ado, here is a new one. It isn’t exclusive to animation. Some, I admit, are a little cheesy.
1. A pencil will never crash.
2. A pencil doesn’t need electricity.
3. You will never get the blue screen of death with a pencil though you can always draw one.
4. For that matter, a pencil doesn’t run Windows.
5. Endless undo.
6. Spammers can’t reach you on your pencil.
7. You never have to worry about having to upgrade a pencil. Just buy a new one. They’re really, really cheap.
8. You never need to worry about software updates.
9. Ditto about security.
10. Pencils are user-friendly. Anyone of all ages and all levels of technical knowledge can use one.
11. Women can use pencils to put their hair up.
12. Pencils fit in your hand, on your ear, are portable and waterproof!
I leave items number 13 through 55 to you to submit :)
Happy New Year!
My last show recorded in 2007 is the first show for 2008. Best of all, it’s short!
It’s a quick drive on New Years’ Eve introducing The Year of Creativity. Something I made up to encourage me to really get off my butt and do lots of creative work. And my book! Remember way back in the earlier episodes when SpudCast was all about reporting on the progress of my comic book/graphic novel? Long story short, this podcast later morphed into talking about creativity when I realized I was making no progress after a few episodes.
I’ve decided it’s now or never. Be creative or not! Make 2008 the year of creativity!
I ask you:
How do you make yourself creative? What sparks creativity in you? What inspires you? Which creative works are you most proud of?
You tell me…
In a voice mail! Call +1-206-202-0463 (this is actually the number of my other podcast, Stuttering is Cool, until I get a new one for SpudCast). Or record an mp3 and email it to spudcast *at* gmail *dot) com.
Yes, I am building an army! An army of Peacekeepers to be exact. More like covert vigilantes. Did you know that the world is run by idiots who make more money than they know what to do with responsibly and cause so much nastiness in the world like sweat shops, fixed elections and illegal wars. I could go on.
You can see the first of my peacekeepers on mojizu.com. His name is Razer and he’s the leader, the brains behind the whole thing (you can read his bio here). Of course, the head always has to go first. Even if it is peacekeeping. Plus, I also haven’t finished working on the rest of the team. They will be posted to Mojizu as they are completed.
The scan above contains a bit of my initial sketches of him. His fully rendered final product is on the Mojizu site.
What is Mojizu? Think of it as a social media site for character designers professional and amateur alike. Except you get to pit your characters, or mojis as they are called on the website, head to head in a battle. You can also vote on your favs. Winners get their mojizu on a t-shirt and share in the profits.
What do you think of Razer’s design?
Finally, I get to post episode #15 of SpudCast. My podcast about creativity. On this one, I talk about all the sketchbooks I have. Each one is dedicated to a certain theme which I feel helps with sparking creativity. Here is the link.
Pardon me while I multitask and clean up my room. I am such a messy person! Which is also supposed to be a common trait among artists ;)
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