Archive for January 2009
Painting- day 4
January 20, 2009
got a good 2 1/2 hours of slapping pigment around.. was nice but eventually aching feet and the palette told me it was time to call it a day.
when theres no more room on the palette its time to stop.
I got 2 sides of the planet rendered… Not really happy about the empty hillside one… but not really sure what to add to it. maybe something will come to me overnight.
Kinda went totally ocd on the plantlife (thanks wen)
here’s a detail
Anyway.. it’s a good day’s progress i think.. tomorrow I’m seriously going to have to tackle the gears in the planet and figure out how to get things to work together.. oh well.
Posted in Art, General | 
Tags: acrylic, analog, Art, clockworld, painting, picture, so much blue | 
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Painting – day 3
January 20, 2009
Got a good couple hours in last night. I was originally just going to put in the base colors for the earth and grass and block out the buildings… buuut.. I simply had to paint something instead of just filling in boring flat blocks of color.
I wound up having a great time, put on the headphones and tuned out the universe for 2 hours… bliss!
Anyway here’s a crappy cellphone picture (color corrected in photoshop) (and the trees were still wet so that’s why theyre shiny.)
Day three- earth and grass
Art weekend… succcess
January 18, 2009
Spent the weekend playing around with acrylics with Wendy.
Took the plunge and started on a big canvas.. It’s definitely a big project, maybe a little too big.. but it’s actually been a lot of fun so far..
first steps
here’s the (1) initial sketch done as a doodle during a meeting at work. (2) A brief color rough / enlargement done in about 20 minutes on the pc. and (3) finally the first couple of scribbles to get it onto the freshly gessoed canvas.
Drawing on canvas.
Here’s a picture of the canvas with more of the sketch transferred.
Further Blues
The Sun and Moon and the Stars
Not a bad start Got most of the base colors for everything laid in..
Been learning flash..
January 16, 2009
Been playing around learning some flash bits n pieces..and Holy moly! it’s starting to make sense. Gradually…
But man.. is flash slow performance wise. Anyway here’s today’s little excercise. It’s not entirely properly OOP since I didn’t extend the base MovieClip class and just slapped the functions into the various instances.. But New classes are the next thing I’m tackling.. and then passing and fetching javascript data back and forth for flajaxy goodness.
tilebounce
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Easy as cake
January 6, 2009
Hmm so I’m grandually getting comfortable wiht the whole MCV arhictecture of dev elopment. I’ve decided to more or less just give a pass to Ruby on Rails for now and see about getting cakephp up and implemented to my workflow.
Having a hard time with the initial mental gymnastics to fully embrace it but it’s gradually starting to make sense.
For now, though, It may be time to just take a break and take a look at some bigger picture items and play around with my paints while things gel.
Posted in Code, Development, Games, General | Tags: cake, computer, MCV, php, programming, ruby on rails | Comments Closed