Nathan Jurevicius is one of the artists that sparked my love for illustrating. His style is insanity at its best. He even has an online game now. His work is just amazing and he’ll always be one of my favorites. Years ago I was reading up on one of my favorite bloggers, Claire Robertson, and she mentioned her friend’s artwork and his interview. I was in immediate awe. I wanted to know how he was producing this work, what program, everything. So I started researching and working with Illustrator. I wish someone had told me in the very beginning that it takes a few programs working together to get the final product. In the late 90s it was much harder to find resources let alone tutorials. Now I can find so many artists through social networking like Facebook and Flickr, digital art magazines and more.
I wrote both Nathan and Claire with questions and they kindly wrote me back. It’s interesting to see how all of our art and interests have changed, a flourishing evolution of change in style and medium. Gives me another swift kick in the behind to get my own work published.
I’ve been absent. What else is new? I only lasted one week with my Happy Bokeh Wednesday photo, lol. Sad, so sad. One thing is brand spanking new for me. I. GOT. THE. IPHONE!!!! And it is the best.
When I got it, it broke after 12 hours. I had a bad sim card and after googling to find other people who ran into this issue, I found many who had the same story I did. I got a new card right after work and it has been blazing fast ever since. I never thought something could change the way I do things as much as things changed when I went from a discman to an iPod. I was so wrong. Shazam is one of my favorite apps because now I can just have it listen to a song anywhere and it will tell me the artist and song. Just that alone had me at hello.
I am a techno geek and proud of it. Here here.
I need to go finish packing for our camping trip this weekend. Yes me. I camp…sometimes. This is only my second time but I am excited. There will probably be hiking, checking out a waterfall, holding and feeding baby alligators, smores and brats. Go go GPS!
I’m not good at navigating. If I haven’t been somewhere in awhile be sure that I will be google-mapping the address and taking the directions, step by step. So I’m pretty sure the best thing the hubs and I have ever bought together was a GPS. I am in love with this thing. ETA of arrival, new faster routes I didn’t even know existed, being able to program the map so every Starbucks and gas station showed up on the screen, etc etc. That one about Starbucks came in especially handy when we were on our road trip to Vancouver from Seattle.
I’m plugging along, organizing files. It’s nice to see some pics from back in the day but it will be even better when I’m finally done already. I took a half day off yesterday and the full day off today. I have my old pc files that needed to be moved over and a million images that need to be backed up onto dvds.
Then the real fun begins and I will never back up years of data at one time again. That is my vow.
Flickr and Facebook keep seducing me. Back to work!
Oof, I feel like I just sat down for the first time today. I keep getting a crazy second wind and then I don’t know when to sit down. It happened with shopping the day after Thanksgiving and it just happened today. I worked two hours of OT, worked out for an hour, came home and made a quick dinner (honey glazed salmon and salad), and then I did a major clean up of the kitchen.
Maybe I was just avoiding this WordPress nastiness that is making me mess with some in-depth coding in order to be able to upload pretty small files. Very. Annoying.
So I cleaned.
Now back to trying to figure it out. Wish me luck.
