Update

These are just more of my random pics:





The first pic of the fairy is the result of a photshop tutorial to "coloring anime style." I wanted to learn skills over the Summer. I need to upgrade my versions of photoshop and painter though so I can do more cool tutorials in this awesome book!! Please get this book if you are a digital or going digital artist!! There's anime color, concept tips, graffit fonts etc .I found this microcenter and Ilove it but the projects can be harder if you don't have at least Photoshop cs or painter 9 or higher. I was working with adobe 6 and painter classic so it came as abit crude. The hardest trick with the anime color was the polygonal lasso in PS v.6. Some parts weren't even possble, the gradient or didn't exist in this version so I would used the source file elements and copy and pasted the stuff I couldn't reproduce. That's the main drawback. Here's the link:

" The Complete Digital Art Creative Handbook" retail $24.99

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The second picture is my sushi sculpture made with Super Sculpy polymer clay(funnest project ever). I'm doing another set to sell at my favorite sushi restaurants in town and leaving my cards down mainstreet. I'm still thinking about pricing considering sculpting food is very labor intensive. But $60.00 for a set or more depending on how many pieces. I would like to make more sushi sculptures and other foods like hamburgers and tacos food is so fun to do. My teacher really challenged me to make them look as real as possible. He was really challenging me this year and glad for it.

The third picture is of my senior thesis booth for my grahic novel : The Butterfly Exchange . My backboard display introduces the characters, location and fashions of renaissance/peach mountain period 1573-1603 Japan. The dolls or reference manneque\ins dressed up. and the rest of the decorations.


Another favorite book is called "Fantastic Folds, Oragami Projects by Andrew Stoker (not for beginners for intermediate and advanced folders." I gave this book to a friend and missed it so much I had to buy myself another copy. My favorite thing to make is the origami bags to make thankyou presents.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=fantastic+folds&x=0&y=0



Well come Monday, the work resumes on the job hunt and the graphic novel, I have to finish penciling chapters one and two. After the inking, toning, compositing process etc.. scripting the next story arc which will see the heroines trying to adapt to their new circumstances and meet their antagonists. I have to get get it up to 180 pages for submission. That's the size of a dime store romantic novel or should it 99 cents store nowadays?

I also thought about finishing up the first comic pages for the short science fiction story "of missing persons" by Jack Finney. I really love that story of a man struggling with an idea so hard to believe that a mysterious travel agency can show him how to get away from his life by transporting him to another world. But he'll only one chance and a one way ticket to find out. I liked the story so much I drew the bar in the beginng scene as Finney's Irish Pub. Iloved the period too for research the film Noir and New York City of the 1930's.

Until next post, This is Grim signing off.

I hope to to get it into an anthology.