Foxy

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This weekend, I bought some cheap Crayola markers and colored pencils to add to my creative toolbox. I've been leaning more toward digital techniques as of late, and I've been wanting to experiment with different mediums and do a bit more work by hand. While exploring, I figured I'd stick with bargain level supplies, so I bought fifty different colored markers and fifty different colored pencils for under $10. I've already enjoyed working on a few trial projects and will be posting some stuff up here, starting with this marker sketch of a fox:

Fun, Fun, Fun, Fun, Fun!!!

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Lately, I've been doing what I can to attract more fun into my life whenever possible. That doesn’t mean shunning responsibilities, but instead working to make more of my responsibilities into generators of fun, positive feelings. I still have a way to go, but I believe it is a noble pursuit.

Today's illustration is inspired by my effort to create more rewarding and fun times every day.

Fragments in Audio

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I've been writing a lot of music lately. Hoping to get a few more demos recorded soon. Here's an experiment I have been working on recently. I plan to keep fooling with it. Maybe I'll post another version down the line.

Once More With Nature

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Another round of nature photos taken during recent hikes. A little green before everything turns brown then white.

Wakey, Wakey

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I decided to do something Halloween themed today. Usually, I start with a hand-drawn image which gets touched up in photoshop, then imported into illustrator for some live tracing and coloring. This time, I skipped the Illustrator part and just did the coloring in photoshop. This allowed me to retain a bit more detail in the image.

Recharge in Nature

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I have been doing my best to spend a lot of time in nature recently. I feel it is one of the best ways to recharge the body. Here are a few pictures I've taken while on some recent walks.

Backup Disk and USB Illustration

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A friend and I are working on creating a new card game called Hidden Forces: Robo Wars. It is a two-player battle game pitting two robot armies against each other. Think Magic the Gathering meets Stratego and you'll get the basic idea. It has been a lot of fun to work on so far.

We conceived of the idea a number of months ago and first started testing and tweaking the basic concept with a normal deck of playing cards. It wasn't long until I was inspired to create an actual deck for us to work with. These really helped bring the idea to life. Now, after more playtesting, we're nearly ready to send the prototype off to the printer to get some sample decks printed so we can have even more people test it. First, I needed to create another couple illustrations for the last few cards we needed in the prototype deck. 

Below are those final two illustrations I worked on today. Perhaps I'll share some of the other stuff on here at a later date.