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I've switched from Blogger to WordPress, which offers a more customizable viewing interface and a more robust posting interface. Same URL as before: http://doesstuff.com/blog
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
one-of-a-kind business cards.
Josh Fitz, one of the guys I met at that Exquisite Corpse event I mentioned in my last post, had these small blank pieces of bristol board that he was drawing little pictures on, writing down his email address, and handing them out to people as unique business cards. They were a little too wide to fit into a wallet, but I liked the concept so today I got a pack of blank business cards designed for a laser printer. I plan to do a bunch of them in advance and keep them in my bag in case I meet an artist somewhere. I'll post them here too, and if I get tired of making new ones I can rehash some of my favorites for printing. The ones without any text are on the backs of the ones next to them.
The cards I got are, of course, designed to be used in a laser printer, so I am experimenting with the different pens in my collection to see which one works best. The one with the grin was in an ink that didn't soak into the card, just pooled on the surface. After accidentally smudging it a little, I said what the heck and just went crazy -- to a pretty ok effect, although I doubt it'll hold up in someone's wallet. The bottom one, meanwhile, was in an ink that managed to bleed through to the other side of the card, so I just made the other side a mirror image except for the text. Luckily, Sharpies seem to do just fine -- so that's probably what I'll stick with for the rest. In the end, though, I'm going to want to get some actual bristol and cut it down to size rather than work around the limitations of this stuff.
The cards I got are, of course, designed to be used in a laser printer, so I am experimenting with the different pens in my collection to see which one works best. The one with the grin was in an ink that didn't soak into the card, just pooled on the surface. After accidentally smudging it a little, I said what the heck and just went crazy -- to a pretty ok effect, although I doubt it'll hold up in someone's wallet. The bottom one, meanwhile, was in an ink that managed to bleed through to the other side of the card, so I just made the other side a mirror image except for the text. Luckily, Sharpies seem to do just fine -- so that's probably what I'll stick with for the rest. In the end, though, I'm going to want to get some actual bristol and cut it down to size rather than work around the limitations of this stuff.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
SIGGRAPH Drink & Draw
Last night I attended this animation-based Drink & Draw event that was organized by Cascade SIGGRAPH -- it could best be described as an animator's exquisite corpse. They got six of us drawing at a time, moving from chair to chair and drawing on notecards with simple lightboxes in ten-minute stints during which we were supposed to complete eight frames of animation. At the end of each heat, we had to finish our last frame and leave it at our seat for the next person to continue off of. At the end of the night they had a final group come up and draw tween frames to stitch together the six animations into a single almost-cohesive film. They even had a guy right there with a photostand digitizing each set of frames as it was finished -- they actually showed the finished film on a projection screen maybe half an hour after the last frame was drawn. The whole thing was a hilarious rush, and I met a bunch of cool people there too.
Here's the video -- if you want to know which parts I did, look for the giant shoe, the happy little dude whose eyes explode, the headlights coming over a horizon in the darkness, and the monkey being assembled by a swarm of flies (he was supposed to be getting eaten by the flies but I guess I put my frames backwards.)
Here's the video -- if you want to know which parts I did, look for the giant shoe, the happy little dude whose eyes explode, the headlights coming over a horizon in the darkness, and the monkey being assembled by a swarm of flies (he was supposed to be getting eaten by the flies but I guess I put my frames backwards.)
Monday, January 12, 2009
New Blog Software & Roller Derby Illustration
I knew from the start that I'd eventually outgrow Blogger, I just never predicted how long it would take me. WordPress is very cool, and I'm hoping I can build up the energy to actually customize it beyond the default look included with the ComicPress theme. Also, I was asked at the last minute to throw together a graphic for the Heartless Heathers' new jerseys. I only had one day to do it, and I'm actually moderately proud of the result.
Unfortunately, communication was terrible and I managed to very closely replicate the design from their jerseys three years ago which I'd never seen. I still get paid, but they want to go with something more different for this year. I hope their resident designer Ringer manages to come up with something good by the end of tomorrow, because they're my favorite local team and I'd rather not see them skating around in just their logo. Anyway, they say they like my design overall and it might end up going on a hoodie or something to be sold as team merchandise.
Unfortunately, communication was terrible and I managed to very closely replicate the design from their jerseys three years ago which I'd never seen. I still get paid, but they want to go with something more different for this year. I hope their resident designer Ringer manages to come up with something good by the end of tomorrow, because they're my favorite local team and I'd rather not see them skating around in just their logo. Anyway, they say they like my design overall and it might end up going on a hoodie or something to be sold as team merchandise.
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