Wednesday
Aug272008
Jack of all Trades
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 08:23AM 
This is another sketch done all in Photoshop. I actually have some more finished things in the works that are all digital too. I seem to be considering dropping the pencils again. It happens every year or so :) Who knows... maybe this time it will stick!
In other news, I decided a few weeks ago to upgrade the Wordpress install I use for this blog.
Or rather, I decided to downgrade it...
After re-learning html, CSS, and PHP every 6 months for the last few years in the pursuit of keeping ‘up-to-date’ I thought it might be a good idea to stick with the most basic default template, and the least amount of plug-ins possible.
Cutting down on life clutter, etc.
Of course 5 minutes in and I am struggling with some ridiculously simple task that takes 5 hours to resolve. But such is the price of freedom. I am definitely not a web developer, and barely a web designer.
But... I have always had aspirations on being able to design on a theoretical level. The only official art schooling I ever took was in graphic design, and despite not really getting as much as I could out of the course, I did come away with a lot of theory that related not just to page layout and logo design, but to all art in general.
It is strange then to realise how badly my site has been (and is still) designed, just from an information flow point of view.
I realised I was organising for ease of use. But more for my ease than others. People often ask where the art is. And I’m starting to realise my cool idea of having all my Dailyscrible Sketchblog entries in one easy location hides a good portion of my best work from people who had no idea what the Dailyscribble was.
as does organising things based on time (new art etc...) great for me. Useless for anyone else.
So...more re-org required. I haven’t really gotten there yet, still trying to figure out what the best way to shuffle things into categories is. I have made a small attempt to bring the more important items to the foreground via link icons on the sidebar. The typography and general design of which any of my designer friends would no doubt shield their eyes from. But I am learning.
:)
As always
Reader Comments (6)
Beautiful sketch Tim!! Love that its all digital! Great work my friend. She must need some pretty heavy duty Q-tips though!!!
Haha, yeah those are weird ears. at least they are not pointy though, that was my only goal ;)
Thanks!
Great stuff, Tim! What kind of brush are you using for your "pencils"?
Hey Paul, I'm not really sure. I mostly use other ppls brushes, and this one is quite complex, although I'm uncertain it needs to be for what I am using. It has dual brush properties which I never really figured out.
How best can I explain it? It is a size 7 quite simple round brush with full size and opacity pressure sensitivity, and it has a dual brush that contains a texture, kind of like the square chalk you would find in painter. the end result used at this size is a simple line that breaks up a bit.
I am testing some other ones as well.
My collection is just a massive set of other peoples sets mushed together. I can barely find anything in it. I normally just save a preset of a brush if I like how it works and rarely check the settings. I need to figure out how this stuff works. I find it quite hard to reverse engineer the new PS brush controls. I'm only just getting back into it. for 95% of 7 Pirates I was using a very simple round brush, and before that I was into painter. Only just recently have I started thinking about actually painting anything in Photoshop.
Thanks for stopping by!
AWESOME! ya barstard!
Very great! alas, I only speak english (and greek) and cannot read this comic.