The new job isn't going to have much designing to it outside of moving widgets around on a Web page.
After more than 10 years of page design and working with Quark and Indesign and Photoshop and Illustrator, I won't be doing much of that anymore.
It kind of makes me sad, because design has been such a strong influence in my life and it's a majority of what I know. Still we all have to transition sometime in life and if I want to find a career outside of second-shift copy desking, there is no time like the present.
I plan on keeping my sketchbooks around. You can see some of my early work by clicking on the Sketch tab. But I'll post some work here, too.
After more than 10 years of page design and working with Quark and Indesign and Photoshop and Illustrator, I won't be doing much of that anymore.
It kind of makes me sad, because design has been such a strong influence in my life and it's a majority of what I know. Still we all have to transition sometime in life and if I want to find a career outside of second-shift copy desking, there is no time like the present.
I plan on keeping my sketchbooks around. You can see some of my early work by clicking on the Sketch tab. But I'll post some work here, too.
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You can see some of the early workings in my style in the first pic. I've never had a refined style and I probably never will. I've always liked to draw and the sketchbooks are a way to get some of the crazy ideas out of my head and on to paper.
I fell in love with the "Bad Moon," an icon for a clan of orcs in Warhammer, and the image has stuck with me quite some time. You can see the evolution of that image in the second pick. A little more 3-D and better detail. I can't remember from where the tentacles came, but I'm guessing there's a strong influence from Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice" and the cartoon spinoff series.
You can even see two characters I have been working on developing for sometime, "Smiley" and Lilith, the crab-handed bald girl spewing tentacles in the third picture.
If I get the time I'd like to work up a painting of the middle picture, but I need to get back into drawing again. Without having a visual element to my work life, maybe I'll get some time to focus on the sketchbook again.
I fell in love with the "Bad Moon," an icon for a clan of orcs in Warhammer, and the image has stuck with me quite some time. You can see the evolution of that image in the second pick. A little more 3-D and better detail. I can't remember from where the tentacles came, but I'm guessing there's a strong influence from Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice" and the cartoon spinoff series.
You can even see two characters I have been working on developing for sometime, "Smiley" and Lilith, the crab-handed bald girl spewing tentacles in the third picture.
If I get the time I'd like to work up a painting of the middle picture, but I need to get back into drawing again. Without having a visual element to my work life, maybe I'll get some time to focus on the sketchbook again.
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