Reporting In from Break

I've been catching up on some work, but I can't exactly upload it right at the moment. In lieu of something new, I'm opting to post another piece from Invented Environments that I am quite pleased with.



Besides the whole boring "art" thing, I've been catching up on all of my video games. It has come to my attention that nearly every from of media is suffering right now. Most movies are either remakes or based on a comic book, for example. Music is stuck in a post-grunge rut where everything is sounding muddy, yet somehow overproduced at the same time. Video games rely so heavily on big-budget titles that if a company releases a title with even lukewarm sales, the entire staff being let go. These are troubling times. I've got more to say about this, but I'll save this for later as it's 3am.

BREAK!

I'm realizing more today than any day so far that I am in dire need of this break. Between picking out my schedule and trying to get everything ready for final critiques, I've felt exhausted and achy this entire week. Today was definitely the worst, though.

I'm going to be making myself a to-do list for the break so that I can get something accomplished. I need to get my website back up, first and foremost. Aside from that I've got a couple portraits that I'm lined up to do and may start working on a comic with a couple of my artist buddies from CCS. I'll list more info on that once a plan is hashed out, since it is so far only in idea form.

Tomorrow will be an early day at school since I'll be printing my comic out. Hopefully It'll look good on paper because I'm pretty happy with it on the digital front. It is a scene from Stephen King's Pet Sematary. I drew it all out and inked it traditionally. I'm proud to say that this is my first attempt at using a traditional pen and ink method with nibs. I used Photoshop to color it. I tried to approach the process of color from a very graphic nature, using mostly pastel colors and a giving it a water color look.