En Plein Air

Went to Kafka's with Karla and Seth for the first time in a while. We sat outside and draw whatever interested us. I picked this sunny hill on somebody's property. It looked much better before I painted it, but was salvaged by the addition of the thick pen and the gouache highlights. Also drew some people in Kafka's before we left to go outside and painted them when we got back. 

Teal House

Here's a thing I finished up today.
Took longer than I would've liked, but I'm happy with how it turned out. I went around on a sunny day a few  months ago and took pictures of some houses on my street that caught my eye. Planning to do a few more of these soon.

finished house

some progress shots

In other news, I just finished a summer class and have a bit of time off before the next one. I'm heading down to Redmond tomorrow to visit Mike and I'll have some downtime while he's at Microsoft, so I'm hoping to do some more of these if possible.

new hovernote banner

I made a new banner for the hovernote Facebook page. Speaking of, it's on version 1.3 now and includes exciting features like an improved settings panel, autosaving and recent notes list, and automatic bullets for making lists. Notes can also be collapsed to an icon for quickly hiding and bringing back notes without having to use the notification panel.

And in context:

On the note of Android, I also recently got a Nexus 7 tablet and it's really exciting and will save me from lugging my laptop around on days I don't really need to. Convenient too, since my phone's earpiece decided to stop working about a week ago, defeating just about all of the purpose of having a phone- at least the screen didn't break or anything...

foundation book entry

My contribution for a collaborative project my friend organized. We’re putting together an 8 page full color book based around the key locations incoming ECUAD students need to know.   Even if they don’t enjoy the activity, they’ve got a sweet little book filled with creative, original illustrations. 

The location I chose was the print card machine and here we have a new student, nervously trying to figure it out. 

birthday doodle

Business cards

Finally got my cards back from Jukebox and they look nice. I also acquired a working printer from Mike to replace the POS printer I got for free off someone's lawn last year. With my resume finally out of the way and business cards to boot, I guess it's about time I start actively applying for things. I'm a bit hesitant at the same time though, with school resuming in about a month. I don't want to potentially get hired only to tell them I won't be available full time, nor do I want to disclose something like that at the time of my application lest that deter me from employment. I'm only going to be taking classes Monday and Tuesday though, so I hope to come up with something, preferably a print shop.

food

Thinking about a food blog or just putting photos of things I cook and bake here. Just a thought.

Resume

Working on my resume again. It's starting to look like something. The difficulty has been settling on one style to sell myself with. Now that I got the business cards out of the way, I have a launching point for the resume and possible web identities to match.

On that note, I made a separate Tumblr for my art portfolio and I may end up pointing my domain at that unless I figure out something else.

Edit: Finally finished with it and I think it looks great.

EIN PORTAL

I made this a few months ago.
He's going a bit fast...

Will reupload sometime soon.

traffic cat

Everyone hates traffic but everyone loves cats.

shaved ice

Available in Red and Blue.

Business Cards!

Right now, I'm working out a business card design which can hopefully be tied into resume and website. I also have to throw together a few signs for the Summer Festival which is in a few days!

I placed an order for 1000 business cards for 18 bucks. Really excited for this. 

Some more things.

dogs

sleeping puddles

octodude

I don't have a name for him so Octodude it is. I doodled this guy at Sunny Shah's art show and felt like painting him.

canyon

I have appropriately named this file holyfuck.psd.
Working from imagination- no ref whatsoever, so I'm pretty happy with this.

Update woohoo

I am really happy with this progress. Plan on making a gif for this one like I did for the teapot still life.

bottle doodle

Drew this at friend's birthday and he asked to keep it. Wine bottle in paper bag.

Legend of Korra plate extensions

Seth assigned me to do plate extensions of some Korra screenshots. Originals within box.

still life

Still life in Photoshop. Worked a while on this until a barista cleared the table.

Summer Festival

I also finished the Summer Festival flyers/posters. We're using Jukebox Print because they're both local and affordable for the quality. Got back the flyers and I'm impressed, placing poster order on Monday during business hours.

Posters came back and they look fantastic. Onto distribution! Definitely a pleasure working with Jukebox.