I’ve been cleaning up my sketch book. The last one (Religion – title to be determined) is going to take some time and I seem to be putting it off by finishing up straggler sketches that have been sitting in my sketch pad for a few years. These are all from a 9×12 Bristol pad using a 3×0 technical pen. If only I could tattoo with this precision… DotsCubed Illustration001 Religion (unfinished) ...
Anyone that knows me, or has read anything I have written within these virtual pages can probably tell that I am not spiritual. In fact, I’ve always had a certain chip on my shoulder for those that are. I tell myself they must have had to fall hard in order to blindly follow a doctrine...
This took me about 36 hours to complete. I used a 3×0 .25 technical pen on 96lb. 9×12 Bristol paper. I penciled a rough sketch of the skull and rabbit including some shading areas, then just went to town. I used the same skull from my ‘Skull with Skyline‘ only went with...
Less than six weeks ago, I decided to attempt the Atkins program, again. I had done it once before and lost about 30 pounds and it was when I was at my heaviest, it felt great to lose what I did, but it was not long before I fell off the wagon and put most of it back on. I understand that...
“While those that can’t do, teach…” Yet another hair brained scheme. Anyone that has ever tattooed will take one look at this and laugh and that’s OK. To any professional, this is a joke, but I feel great about it and loved the process and have a lot to...
As I found in my previous post, “Liquid Cooling“, the onboard GPU/NB chipset was getting very warm as I had pulled several fans out of my case. Also, as I had gotten a new GeForce GTS450 graphics card, I found that my placement of the reservoir was poorly planned. Thus, I embarked...
After messing around with some lowbrow cooling, I finally stepped it up and purchased a liquid cooling kit. The Swiftech H20-220 Ultima XT CPU liquid cooling kit seemed like a beginner/intermediate setup and that was what I was looking for. It comes with a pump, a radiator, a reservoir, a CPU...
I was out looking for an easy store front theme for WordPress and found ElegantThemes.com. I used their eStore theme for the website I did for The Local Fringe. Then a grabbed another for my wife’s site and decided it was time for a new look on my site as well. There are still a few bugs...
I picked up a nice technical pen and began sketching out some ideas for a t-shirt. I have not put pen to paper in such a way in quite some time, but it felt really good. This is probably not going to be a big seller, but I’d wear it. I have a couple more ideas using the same skull so I...
My son came home from school the other day and exclaimed that a cure for cancer had been found. I immediately grew skeptical, not just because my son has a rather strange sense of humor (wondering where he might get it) and sometimes says the oddest things, but because I had not heard about...
My wife and I recently partnered with a local artist couple in their art gallery, The Local Fringe. While many galleries in our area are geared around Adirondack art, this one sits more on the fringe. The gallery sat quietly in its sliver of real-estate for about a year before my wife...
