Sketchbook: Amy at Café Diem

Graphite on moleskine.

I've been paid with weaponry.

So the folks at Cold Steel loved my painting of the Awesome Sword so much that they agreed to send me one of their Two-Handed Great Swords in exchange for a full-size framed print.

They're not kidding. I would not want to be at the business end of this thing. Lance brought in a bunch of pumpkins to work, so we took it out by the pond and had fun slicing them to ribbons.

Fuckin' pumpkins anyway.

BPMI club Figure Drawing

I started once again going to the Tuesday and Thursday night two-hour figure drawing sessions hosted by the Iowa State BPMI Club. Last night I brought my laptop with me and knocked out this piece. I felt like doing more of a portrait.

Awesome Sword is Awesome.

In order to fully appreciate this painting, you need to watch the video that inspired it:

Ames Flooding Panoramic images

I took some photos today of the flooding in Ames.

The new Aquatic Center.

University Blvd (formerly Elwood Dr) looking south toward Lincoln Way.

University Blvd looking south toward Jack Trice Stadium.  The ridged-dome building in the distance is the indoor football practice facility.

Digital Abstract

I had some downtime today.  My day job has me temporarily working at a law firm in Washington D.C., producing last-minute graphics.  After working 182 hours in 12 days I finally had a little downtime today.  Unfortunately I couldn't leave the office, so I walked around and took some photos of the building's architecture.  I used some of the shapes I found to make this little abstraction in Photoshop.  Hope you enjoy it.

There is no solution.

This generally sums up my entire experience with Windows Vista.  This is a real error message.  Fortunately we'll be rolling out Windows 7 at work soon.  Maybe.