So I got the new camera that picks up peoples brain frequencies while on drugs.............................
No just kidding it's just Photoshop, and no drugs were involved in creating this image.
This is James. He and I like to make funny pictures of each other in Photoshop. I really like the way this one looks. As for the inspiration to make James look like a total acid freak, I don't know. Here's the original photo (Which I did not take myself.)I don't know what it is about this photo, but it makes me think he's hallucinating that gorilla. So I went to town opening James's 3rd eye. Gotta say I'm pretty happy with the outcome.

Bear Sketch

As you may or may not know I love to draw bears. A lot of the time when I can't think of anything else to draw I just default to a bear. That's what I did here. The actual sketch took me about 5 minutes. The coloring took a little longer, but not much. As you can tell I didn't try to clean up my lines or anything. I just wanted this one to be real loose and sketchy. So here's another drawing I did of a bear.


It's good to actually post a drawing on here for once.

Banner Ads

Last week I ended up doing a Flash job at work. They needed some web banners and I am the only person at Semerad who knows how to use flash. I had to create 2 different banners in 3 sizes, 768x90, 300x250, & 160x600. They turned out pretty good and the clients are happy. You can view them all here. I can't upload the actual SWF file to the blog so these are MOV files. This means when it instructs you to "click here" nothing will happen if you click. If your curious to see the website that these send you to the address is http://www.arizonaeconomiccouncil.com. This is the first actually creative project I've done for my job. Hopefully this opens the doors for more projects, whether they be Flash, After Effects, or even editing in Final Cut I'm ready for the challenge.

Banners 768x90


Tower 160x600


Box 300x250


This project has got me into doing Flash work again. I have a website I built last summer and haven't touched since that I'm thinking about working on again. I'll keep you all posted if anything comes of it. Oh yeah I also have to thank Shaun Moore for his phone support on this one.