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I have had a a tremendous amount of new opportunities recently. I am concurrently working on four separate game projects, mostly as a concept artist.
Concept Art for the new MMO Farland
I have included a couple of the architectural items I have created for one of the games. Farland is a new MMORPG being created by a dedicated team of independent developers. The game is old school fantasy, trying to hearken back to the origins of the genre.
Bridge Concept Art for the new MMO Farland
I tried to create a version of medieval architecture that is true to the fantasy genre, realistic and believable, functional and esthetically similar enough to be recognized as the same civilization. Both of these example images are of strategic and utilitarian buildings. The gate has a greater need to be intimidating and showing a sense of the power of the city, as well as being defensive.
I am enjoying this role. In each of the games a different style, unique and challenging.
A question I am often asked is; "How do you start a new painting?"
This is a tough question to answer as it includes a great many questions in response. Am I working digitally? Is there an existing style or subject matter?
Depending on the style, the subject and the end format, this can vary widely. But if it is just a fun painting for me with no preconceived concept I will often start with these really quick and really rough speed paintings.
As you can see it is little more than blobs, streaks ans shapes of varying shades of gray. The idea is to allow your mind to wander and to see things in the shapes and blobs. A self induced vorshack test, without the judgment on your psyche.
This one I never moved forward with, but I still look at it and have many ideas. And that is all I need from such an exercise. It allows me to see new perspectives and often create a scene I would otherwise never have envisioned.
I have often tried to incorporate this same process into a painting where I have already been given a subject... Try looking at clouds with the thought of finding queen Elizabeth. Either every cloud has that form, or none. It is the same with this process. If you already have an idea, you will see it in every ink blob, or not at all.
So looking at this image, what do you see? Does it spark any new ideas?
This is one of the "props" from my halloween costume this year. Yes I still dress for halloween, in my defense. I have a large group of friends who throw a week long halloween party at a big lodge we rent out for the event.
Each year they put out a theme, and your costume must fit into said theme. Mine invariably require an assortment of props, as does any proper costume.
I handed out a range of train tickets to most of the people attending.
This has been the topic of my life the last several months. I am frequently paid to do SEO work for corporate sites. Anyone in the game knows that there is far more to it than just doing on page SEO, and it is all that other stuff that takes the real effort and time.
I once heard someone call themselves the mechanic who drives a beater car. I often fall into that category in regards to my own websites. I rarely do much SEO work for them, and I tend to neglect them for long periods of time as well. Regardless some of those sites rank very well for their chosen key words, however they could be much more
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I have actually been sketching prodigiously, and doing some new stuff in 3d that I am excited to show everyone. Currently working on a painting for an online competition and also breaking out my oil paints for a series of traditional work. If it was not for the lack of income, I would be very much enjoying this year.
I have been sorely lacking in the time I have spent both here and on my personal art blog I hope to remedy that in the future by making it part of my day... I expect everyone to hold my feet to the fire when I am remiss
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If you have not already been to http://succesu.com and read the blog and listened to the podcasts, then you should. We cover topics like Social Media marketing for your new or small business, viral marketing how-to's, blogging and online promotion. We are focused on the entrepreneur.
We have several exciting guests joining the show in the very near future. These guests are Best selling authors and famous internet marketers
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So I have been posting a series of comic strips I created back in 1999 or earlier that I recently stumbled across in an old archive CD-ROM. At the time I had a Strip Called Cold Coffee, which I have not been able to track down, but these paintball comic strips were a side project that only ever existed in the paintball magazines of the day. I thought they had been lost.
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Ippy here is the mascot for a new web service that will go live later next month. This image was created specifically for any error page that might occur.
Ippy has now been drawn in a wide variety of poses and I rather like this character.
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I have included a couple of the architectural items I have created for one of the games. Farland is a new MMORPG being created by a dedicated team of independent developers. The game is old school fantasy, trying to hearken back to the origins of the genre. 
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