Lately I’ve been working on learning pixel art & animation, hoping to get my meager skills serviceable enough to make the art for some old school video games. This one’s my first attempt at a person, from a picture of me after biking up Mt. Rokko many years ago: I’ve received a lot of great…
Writing Tools
Although the main tool I was planning to discuss was something for ferreting out cliches and overused expressions, the timing was right for kicking off with this article on the preferred writing tools of some famous authors. I’m sure that not many modern publishers would appreciate an envelope stuffed with hundreds of pages of loose-leaf…
Last Work
Starting work on a novel (or any large project) combines an act of creation with an act of destruction. With limited time, the pursuit of an idea goes hand in hand with all of the ideas that aren’t pursued. Every idea is brought to life on the battlefield of a thousand dead ones. Considering a…
Frequently Rowling
Frequency (a quick sketch and Photoshop treatment to avoid using the same old same old frequency wave) This is a bit of an extension on the previous post about “just” showing up too much. While it’s probably old news to everyone but me, the method used by Peter Millican of Oxford University and Patrick Juola…
Color Shifting
A new design which conveys movement and distance through the use of the color spectrum.
European Vacation
Made it over to Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg, but had a little time on the plane to draw this.