Angry Robot BooksPodcasts
Sunday night has turned into my weekly podcast evening. I have several that I enjoy, time permitting. My routine used to be one of Leo Laporte’s podcasts, either Windows Weekly or TWIT possibly both if I got started early enough. Then I would listen to Major Nelson’s xBox 360 podcast as it does not get uploaded till Sunday evening.
I’ve added a couple more shows, and moved them to the top of the list now that I am trying to do more 3d and 2d work on the computer. The goal is to eventually (once my skills reflect the goal) snag some freelance graphics work and possibly land a day job in that industry. These podcasts are both from graphics artists, Ninja Mountain and WIP and are geared at artists trying to break into the freelance illustration market, primarily SciFi and Fantasy. They are very entertaining listens and offer some great insights and advice. You also get some great interviews Ninja Mountain in particular just did a 2 hour interview of artists at GenCon that was great.
Check em out, and hopefully I’ll still find time for the other casts still too.
3D Stainless Steel Printing
This really isn’t a new technology, but it is getting easier and cheaper. Ten years ago this would have caused the DIY scenes collective heads to explode. Even now it is pretty remarkable. Take a look at Shapeways site for some examples with the pricing for printing things in metal.
Mythic Design – Adventure Art Review
I pop twitter up on my iPhone periodically or on the PC if I am taking a break from something. I follow various game personalties and companies and saw a tweet from Mythic Design offering up a free copy of Adventure Art Issue #1 to the first few folks to respond, the only catch being those who won be willing to provide a short honest review. What follows is that review.
Adventure Art #1 is offered both as a print and a PDF, I am reviewing the PDF version and think for this type of produce, while it is nice there is a print version available, really works best as a PDF as you are granted permission to reproduce the art for personal use. The product is a collection of twelve character sketches with a bonus action sketch thrown in. It has a table of contents of sorts consisting of a very short intro for each character as well as the credits for the concept and art. Very handy way to make sure the creators get credit while keeping the utility of the character sketches clean. The quality of the art is above average to very good.
Other than being just fun to look through, for me, the best use for this around the game table would be a tool to spark ideas for a game master looking for help with NPC’s for his game. Players would gain the benefit of having a picture to place with the description the GM throws at them. Always nice to have a face to associate with in a game. All in all $6 for a PDF of printable clean character art is not too bad. Mythic Design has two issues out so far, give one of them a try.
Perpetuating a spontanious meme
Posting this because the blog I saw it on posted it because they found it randomly and was a mused.
Winter is Here
Mid November in Alabama, it has been a very nice fall this year. The colors have been amazing after a string of several years where the leaves on the trees went from green to brown to the ground. This year the trees have been vivid and now they are going brown and to the ground. The lead up to the season was the perfect recipe to brew the colors.
Drawing class had a field trip to the local Art Museum, Joani and I went and had an enjoyable day. Going to Huntsville’s Art Museum was nice and all, but really it just made me crave a larger more encompassing Museum Experience. I think I may propose some road trips soon.
Bioshock
So all I’ve played of this game so far is the demo. It was beautiful, however I just have not finished enough of the games I already own for the xBox to pony up for another one right now. One thing that can not be denied is the artistry of the game. Not sure how long this will be available on their site, but you can download a PDF of the art book for the game here on their site.
School, and an art post
I’ve been going to night school for a couple of years now, nothing hard core , just a class or two each semester. I’m finally getting around to posting some of the stuff I’ve been doing in class. This is from my Drawing I sketchbook. We just passed by the mid term. The sketchbook is 8.5×11, our in class work is in an 11×17. If i can figure out how to get some decent scans/photos of that I’ll post some of them as well. This is really the best of what I did in the sketch book. I’ll see about posting some of the things from previous classes like Two Dimensional Composition and the Intro to Computer Graphics class. Next semester I am hoping to have some fun with a 3d class.
