Young Life Golf Outing & Nerf Wars

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I was given the opportunity to make another poster for Young Life. This time for their annual golf outing fundraiser. I wanted to make something that had a little Scottish influence to it since that was the birthplace of the sport. So in Scottish clan tradition, I made a Young Life golf coat of arms. I used Illustrator to modify the shield and golf clubs, then brought it into Photoshop to create the rest of the poster. It's always fun to make stuff for YL.

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On a separate note we recently purchased an arsenal of nerf guns at work and decided to make some action photos. Below is the one I did of me wielding dual Mavericks. I have two images. The first one is the original photo we took and the second is me in the heat of battle. Everything was done with images from google image search and about 1 hour of playing around in Photoshop. It was just a fun exercise... a sort of graphics challenge.

Past Perfect

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Over the past month or so my friends and I have talked about making a comic together. The whole point being a tool to be creative and keep in touch on a regular basis since we live states, and even continents apart.

We all started out much more heavily in the traditional arts and only in college really moved over to the digital arts. After many years of just working on computers we're itching to put some pencil to paper and just draw a bit. Through this desire we came up with the idea to make a comic that we can all work on and then post the pages on the web for others to read as we complete them.

Right now we're sorting through all of our schedules and figuring out what a possible production timeline could be like and pooling all of our ideas into the story, concept art, and technique. We're all really excited about this project and are looking forward to making the first finished page.

Once we get everything fleshed out I'll post more about the story and characters (most likely in another blog dedicated to the comic) and I'll continue to post concept art and images as we create them. Here's the first peek.

JC Trombley drew up some quick concepts of characters and a guy getting pistol whipped and drew the revolver and vacuum tubes.

The colored one is my first attempt at trying to determine how the colors will look. I really haven't done a lot of this and every time I did I just filled the outlines with a solid color and used the dodge and burn tools in photoshop to create the shadows and highlights. This drawing I wanted to try to get away from that and experimented with different brushes. The main brush acted a bit like a marker. I used broad strokes of color and then refined it until I had what you see below. At the end I added his stubble and used a speckled brush in photoshop to create it. This got me thinking of what other great brushes could be created. I feel the next one could be a lot different because of this.

These are the first drawings I've done in a while. It's taking me back to my childhood when all I wanted to do with my friends was draw. It's a great feeling.