The Creative Mind At Work!

I get asked from time to time on how I create my characters. Well, here it is! This is a screen shot of a character I designed in Adobe Photoshop CS5. The first image in the top left is what artist call the blocking in stage. Its were we take the simple shapes like spheres, cubes, triangles, and squares to create a basic skeleton of our idea. Once all the elements are in place, I begin sketching in the details (bottom left) I want the character to have. Lastly, with the pencil lines in place, I proceed to ink the drawing, add the color, highlights, shadows, and all the other little fun stuff until I have the finished character!

There is more to it than this. There are tons of things to get into like color theory, shading, perspective, and balance, but I'll save those things for another day.

A Blast From The Past.....Sort Of!

Every once in a while I find things that I forgot even existed! In today's case its an old business card from 2006. I can only assume I wasn't very good back then, as I still have this business card lying around.....LOL!

On a good note my email address hasn't changed, but for all of you who think it would be funny to prank me...uhmm sorry, the phone number is wrong!

In the end, it's cool to take a look back on how things use to be. Is a great reminder of how far I have come as an artist, and how much more I still have to learn. I know that I have had different business cards over the years, but I think this one probably sticks out most in my mind as it was create in the beginning of my career.

For all you people who might read this, can you guess who the character/caricature person is on the card?
Lets see how many people can get it right!