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Tribute to Dairy
I really missed Photoshop
“You Were on Your Way Home When You Died.”
There’s a story that was read to me years ago by my best friend that I want to share.
It’s called The Egg by Andy Weir
(Read it here in different languages)
You were on your way home when you died.
It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.
And that’s when you met me.
“What… what happened?” You asked. “Where am I?”
“You died,” I said, matter-of-factly. No point in mincing words.
“There was a… a truck and it was skidding…”
“Yup,” I said.
“I… I died?”
“Yup. But don’t feel bad about it. Everyone dies,” I said.
Continue reading “You Were on Your Way Home When You Died.”
Sky Mouth
The second in a series called Dream People.
Life… What is it?
Life is beautiful, and so are you.
Storyboards for Kiddies
Recently I visited my mom’s school to give the kids a presentation on storyboards, why they were important, and how to write descriptively. When I left, their challenge was to write something that could clearly be drawn out. Most of them were very long so I did samples of the most interesting parts.
THE KID WHO LOST HIS THINGS IN THE SCHOOL
More to come!
Roarin’ Lauren Character Design
My buddy Andrew (Forming a System) and I are working on a story whose characters I had drawn out many years ago, and recently found in an old sketchbook. I will continue to post these character developments as I draw them. It’s a great story and I’m very excited about it.
Here is a new character created by Andrew named Lauren. Or as I affectionately refer to her, Roarin’ Laurnen.
She is still in the development as her design isn’t solid yet. This is a good start but she looks too sweet, I feel she’s a bit more rough of a character.
When you’re designing characters, don’t be afraid to draw whatever you feel and draw a lot. You can always take parts of what you like from every drawing to complete your person. What I did to figure out Lauren was start a folder with her name, and put in pictures and things that I feel inspire her character and would make her who she is.
Time lapse video of this drawing to come soon!
Happy Drawing!
FREE EBOOK! Forming a System by Andrew Uphoff and me! (kind of)
So remember that book cover I made a little while back?
CHECK IT OUT you can get this book FOR FREE just this weekend. Free book? Who turns down a free good read?
When Andrew first sent me the story I could not put it down. Honestly it’s worth the very few megabytes of data to download it.
Basically, our main character Rey Lionheart is a genius programmer who manages a ley system (which totally builds entire planets). This is her system and she knows all the ins and outs. When something goes wrong and even she doesn’t understand this weird error message, Rey must get to the bottom of things. After all, she is being watched, and not just by the beings worried about the ley crystal. Someone else has their eyes on her as well.
This story has it all in one neat package. Take this adventure with me. It’s free. Come on.
This is a great story by a great author and deserves some awesome support. I can’t tell you how much I admire him for finishing it and putting it out there, that is something I’ve never been able to do with any of my stories. And don’t forget, it’s free on May 24th -25th so you have literally nothing to lose!
Peace!
So this happened…
Found this little gems in one of my old sketchbooks and decided to give it a nice digital coloring.
Looking through my stuff I noticed a lot of trends, and disfigured human beings is one of them. I like the idea that they were humans turned into something else maybe, and sometimes they are totally cool with it.
Welcome to my mind?
An Overdue Post from a Busy Bee
Hey, all!
I try really hard not to leave even a day between posts anymore, but I’ve been a little distracted with some more awesome storyboard work. It’s so much fun to design characters (even though the actors may look totally different) and tell their story. I got to design three more over the past few days! It’s been a blast. Have a look 🙂
And here they all are at the end looking all pretty together.
Well, after a hard day’s work I’m headed downtown to crash some bars!
Night!
Basically Emily 