Adobe Creative Cloud

Software

I decided to acquire an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. I’ve been slightly out of the loop when it came to the traditional Adobe applications of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. The last version of the software I have is CS3 that I was able to buy for student pricing before I graduated undergrad. Thankfully, with that I was able to take advantage of the introductory pricing for the subscription.

I am loving the ability to download the software of my choosing on whichever machine I own. I have both PC and Mac and it’s a feature that is just necessary at this point for me. Photoshop is coming back to me, however, I’ve been interested in learning LightRoom, Edge, and Muse. I’ll then be looking to try out the rest of the apps.

Muse so far seems like an odd duck to me. Maybe it’s because I’m looking to be able to implement advanced actions that Edge seems to be able to do but with the structure Muse offers. It’ll be interesting to see what else I can make of it in the mean time.

Dreamhost and RagingWire

Events

This little website has been running on Dreamhost for a little while now and I’m pretty happy with it. Who knew a webhost would be so awesome as to give an opportunity to it’s customers a chance to visit to an opening of a brand new data center? In this case, this particular data center is owned by RagingWire.

I took a few snapshots of the event, please forgive the terrible quality as I did not think to even bring my proper camera with me. D’oh!

It began with a tour of the facilities, then to a short cocktail hour. Right into the ribbon cutting ceremony and show with Cirque Vertigo.  It’s a great thing to be able to see efforts like this in tech and meet the people behind it.

 

Inking Practice

Sketchbook

Some sketches finally inked after a long while. I should’ve marked the original sketch dates, but oh well. Some tools, Staedler Pigment Liners. Staedler has some awesome stuff. The paper isn’t the best quality, there’s a little bleed through here and there, but good enough for nothing serious.

Organization of things

Photography

I spent a whole weekend organizing and tossing stuff out. I have this inclination to collect things because I could possibly, maybe, one day use them later in some creative idea. However, when it becomes years before you remember such a thing existed and ample opportunities have already passed by, it’s time to throw it out.

I’ve got a nice set of pens and pencils, that at least now organized, I can be more ready to use them. The other was organizing some hardware. That Minolta is great, but it always seems to catch the film and won’t ravel it back into the film case. I’ve still got some film stuck in there that I need to get developed. That will be another post for later…

Ms Robin Hood

Sketchbook

I wish I remembered to date this when I first drew it, then inked it. At least today, I markered it in. I wanted to do a semi-futuristic sci-fi type of drawing. I think I got it for the most part. When it came down to coloring it… the browns and greens just gravitated up. Now I have a semi-futuristic sci-fi type Robin Hood character that has much story writing potential. Wooh!

munny munny

Crafts

I bought these from KidRobot a long while ago. FINALLY I am going to start something with them. So the kitty came with an axe and the original munny style came with a triton. I considered making alternative props but at this point, I’ve come to like the props they came with.