Ethan’s portrait
Here’s the portrait that was a commissioned birthday present for my brother’s girlfriend’s brother. His sister wanted an distinguished portrait of him. I thought nothing was more pompus than one of those ruffled collars and a hamlet pose. The original artwork was Frans Hals – Portrait of a Man Holding a Skull. It was featured on the front page of Reddit. http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ojmgb/my_sister_decided_that_no_one_should_reach_30/ I used a low res image of the original painting and repainted it in Photoshop with new brushstrokes so that it looked painted...
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Gumballs
From the super cool GreyscaleGorilla tutorial How To Model, Texture, and Light A Gumball Machine Go make one for yourself! White gumballs are my favorite, well at least for 5 seconds until they lose all their...
Read MoreShrinky Dinks
Here’s my fun project of the week. Shrinky Dinks! I bought a package of assorted Shrinky Dinks plastic and have been making little bones and a caffeine molecule for good measure. The almond colored plastic looks really nice for bones. The shrink to about 30% of the original size. Drawing on the plastic with permanent ink pens results in nice dark and solid lines. Perfect for little pen and ink illustrations. I’m going to have fun with these. I’ll have to think of a real project to use for them. Skull earrings anyone? Here are the scapulae before they went in the oven. ...
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Here’s our wedding invitations that we had made as postcards. If you didn’t get one, sorry we didn’t order them in time to send...
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I attended a weekend event that was held here in San Francisco this June. It was a data visualization challenge that had attendees form teams and compete to build something visual using data sets. They had great prizes and food. http://datainsightsf.com/ I attended just to get an idea about what data visualization is about. I joined a team that made a prototype iPhone app for bicycle route planning. We used elevation and map data of SF give a visual representation for biking across the city. The elevation data would be calculated based on the direction of travel, so going uphill was shown in...
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I am a medical illustrator and knitter who lives in California.