Digital Sketchbook:
The ins and outs of finding style. Some of these projects turned out quite lovely. Some of them, not so much. Every last one of them chronicles a journey, though….and sometimes you never know when looking over an old process leads to a new insight.
This creative process journal is an open sketchbook of every indulgence pursued, every half-baked idea sorta put together, and every little happy accident in one place. Take a journey from now back to the very beginning of each of these posts.
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Office Supply
ATX - February 2022. New camera in the house, cold weather outside the house. Taking close ups of stuff around the office for fun and to get a sense of the new gear.
Boxyball: CONTAINED
ATX - April 2021. Gotta keep that boxyball in it’s place or else. Another case of the Mondays. More practice without feeling.
Negative Spaces 1992: Issues 1-6
ATX - March 2021. Negative Spaces 1992. Kinda fun to play around with really weird naming for things. Six cover issues of an imaginary nothing. It’s not even 1992 related content. Eleven time zones, that’s ridiculous. How can we escape from all this noise?
Simple Thing
ATX - March 2021. I changed the render settings, now nothing looks interesting anymore. More to learn I guess.
Flat Balls
ATX - March 2021. Working on value and composition. Spheres were created by carefully stacking layer after layer in Photoshop with blend modes.
Flimsy Saucer
ATX - December 2020. Using all the materials and all the lights at once. If I keep throwing all these dumb little gimmicks together maybe it will look okay? Maybe? Maybe?
Fastball: “White Collar”
ATX - August 2020. “This idea of a guy cruising down the [Pacific Coast Highway], coked up and rich and young,” explains the singer and multi-instrumentalist. “His wealth is acquired by nefarious means and he’s heading for a fall. That kind of shit.”
The Crow and The Pitcher (2020)
ATX - March 2020. A brief story of ingenuity. A sixty second short animated film, produced in a single day.
Cowboy Diplomacy: “Mountain Man”
ATX - December 2019. “Mountain Man” follows the narrative of someone who feels uneasy trying to navigate city life, misses the peace and solitude of nature, and is trying to survive and find love on a small budget. He may have “mud on his shirt and dirt in his nails” but he’s much more than that.
Rising Girl
ATX - April 2019. I’ve been doing a lot of motion design lately, went to go practice some stylized stuff just for fun. A basic composition created with stock images. Mostly a still scene, mostly.