So … I am a little behind. meh. Anyway, a comment from a good friend nudged me into posting again. The two images above are old doodles that I uploaded in December, but never got around to writing a post for. Below are some photos from the past four months. Yes, it has been that long.
The female half of our new puppies. Nina. The sweet one.
The male half of our new pupplies. Yuma. The far to smart one.
A shot from the remodeling. A girl is on her way. Yay!
Exhibit A: An evolutionary step from IOUs to modern day checks.
I totally got schooled today. A history lesson in old-fashioned, community banking. See that image above? Yes, that is an old, blank check. Evidently businesses around town used to have stacks of these that any customer of Bank of Gravett could use. No account number at all. According to the more experienced tellers, your name was all you needed. Kind of amazing the amount of trust folks had in each other back then.
oOo, and check out the awesome “R” of the typeface.
Another result of me seeing a word ["mastermonkey" in this case] and having an image pop into my brain. Such fun!
So … I got visited by this evil, evil occurance that is just one to many processes away on most Windows machines. That is right, I got the blue screen of death. Not once, mind you, but twice yesterday. Thank goodness I practise my “Ctrl + S” preaching. As it was I got to frustrated to work on the project and sketched this instead.
I guess that is a good thing about macs. At least when they die you get to see an artistic, spinning color-wheel.
I got a surprise email from the marketing director at the bank yesterday. The email was something along the lines of, “The art dept needs this camera ready. Do you have time to do that?”. Okay, hold on a second, let me go back further. I got a surprise call a couple of days ago from her asking my opinion on a stock photo. Technical stuff mostly, just to make sure we would be able to use it. I offered my advice and technical knowledge and that was it. Yesterday, I get an email with the above attachment and a request to make the file “camera ready”. A very fun job. Why, you ask? Well, she attached a sheet from the print company, a full page of specs and requirements for a print-ready file. It was beautiful! [side note: according to that doc, I saved the bank $150] I did the design requested, as well as two more that I felt improved the legibility. Below is the result of the day.
For those of you who may not know [probably most of you] I am an avid PC gamer. My latest time-sink is LotRo, or Lord of the Rings online. It is a MMO based upon … you guesed it, Middle-Earth. This sketch is a celebration of my getting into the Fat Smokin’ Hobbits kinship. Think I am crazy? Try the game first, then you can say I am crazy, but create your character on Silverlode so we can quest together.
Word of warning – it is a big, er rather, really big download.
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