Fartemis? Really?

My sister Karen pointed out the unfortunate logo design on this woman's blouse. The poster was seen in a Burgerville here in town, and was advertising the new pickled pepper cheese burger. I missed it at first, but as Karen points out, the archer is very poorly placed at the beginning of the word Artemis, and to make it worse, the archer looks like the letter F, making the name stitched on her chest look like... Fartemis.

We snickered, laughed, giggled, and then guffawed. ha-ha!

TheSearcher'sWorld!

Well, here's some big news for you. The big Flash website I've been working on for over a month now just went live. It's a companion website for my children's book The Searcher. There's still a lot of work to do, like adding a lot more downloads (there is currently only one, a very nifty maze). I'll also have to chase down some errors, and do some more technical stuff, but it's live if you would like to go check it out, click here. It's an interactive site, so be sure to mouse over everything, and click on all the characters, there are sounds, and animated snippets everywhere. As always, enjoy!

The Searcher news

There's a blog article over on HP Apps about how my book "The Searcher" was turned into a nifty little download. The hope is that those click throughs will result in a few book sales. Click here or on the book cover image to go check it out.

Jesus Walks On Water

Here is a little test I did today. I've been learning a lot in my Flash class, and have been itching to work on this project since last year when I did the first sketches. There's a lot to be done to this, including a walk cycle for Jesus, a boat, and the apostles, and a much better/richer painting for the background. Be sure to leave a comment on the blog here, and thank you for stopping by.

Click on the image to go see the animation, click on the "Jesus Walks On Water" title to leave a comment.

Update: Yesterday monring I went back and added a few more clouds, and a lightening strike to add to the stormy feel. It's my first "effect" in Flash, I think it came out okay.

Gus-bot exits stage left

This was done for my Flash class. The models were built by my teacher Gus Torres, hence the name Gus-bot. The assignment was to animate the robot leaving the screen, any way you want, just get him off the screen. So I decided to have the trolley from a previous assignment blast through, and knock him off the screen. Click on the image above to be taken to a page on my site where you can view the movie. Enjoy!

The Searcher

After a few years of hard work, many, many lessons learned, I am finally self-publishing "The Searcher". I wrote and illustrated this story. It's about a boy who loses his imagination, and spends the day tracking it down. It's an eclectic story, with many bizarre characters. I learned a lot about creating a book. Valuable lessons that will make my next book that much better. You can go see a preview of it here: blurb.com.

I'm also building a companion website for The Searcher at: TheSearchersWorld.com. Right now it's just a place holder image, with a link to the online store where you can purchase. But soon there will be pages with puzzles, mazes, coloring book pages you can download, and a book trailer to watch.

Sketches

Here are a couple more sketch exercises. One is a stork-like bird in a baseball cap, and the other a bald black guy. It's important to be versatile.