http://www.fredart.com/ A less visible blog... Copyright 2008 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:44:29 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.11 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Well, I'd love to say that the start of 2008 got off and running the way I wanted to, but it's actually been more like what people who've had kids before told me - go to 2 comics per week... http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2008/01/2_months_in_bab.html http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2008/01/2_months_in_bab.html Daily Blogging Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:44:29 -0500 I�fm not really sure what it is about having Jack around, or the transition into fatherhood, but it seems to have sparked in me a far more serious and orderly approach to writing. This might not be evident from the... http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/12/fist_full_of_ha.html http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/12/fist_full_of_ha.html Daily Blogging Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:43:19 -0500 It's amazing how much time babies take up in the first few weeks, till you learn how to multitask better. You sort of have no choice, and i'm getting there but jeeze, everytime i turn around it's something else (in... http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/11/what_a_differen.html http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/11/what_a_differen.html Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:40:41 -0500 As most of you are by now aware, a little over a week ago our son Jack Obadiah was born. We knew he would probably be coming early (as indicated in the rant that is at this moment still up).... http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/11/settling_down.html http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/11/settling_down.html Daily Blogging Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:32:49 -0500 This is one of many character design sketches i've done for a story idea i've been working on - its the character found in the recent colorwork i posted a few weeks ago. Like i said, i'm not going to... http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/11/new_sketch_char.html http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/11/new_sketch_char.html Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:53:52 -0500 Flehf. I feel like i've been hiding in a box for the past few months, at least from an internet pov. I've had so much going on in relation to the coming of our first baby that not only have... http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/11/crosstalk.html http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/11/crosstalk.html Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:57:29 -0500 I tend to work from light to dark as i work - i view areas as outlines and tend to apply color and shadow after the shapes are on the page. When looking at painting tutorials, i always note that... http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/10/new_colorworks_4.html http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/10/new_colorworks_4.html Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:02:07 -0500 An odd thing about writing, at least for me, is that most of my best ideas come when i am working on other things. The past few weeks have been really good from a creative standpoint. Putting it all down... http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/09/tagging_blues.html http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/09/tagging_blues.html Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:55:58 -0500 Bweh. Last night i found myself twicking and twicking at the drawings over and over again as i adjusted and erased and modified the expressions, getting hung up on details and discarding frames and redrawing frames on 2nd and 3rd... http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/08/the_halfpipe.html http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/08/the_halfpipe.html Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:54:52 -0500 And one final test to see if i can get these trackbacks working to communicate with the MT site. :P... http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/08/and_a_final_tes.html http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/08/and_a_final_tes.html Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:13:20 -0500 I'm working on a post for MT that talks about some of the differences between the kinds of pencils and erasers you can get in Japan compared to the pathetic selection they sell here in the states. I've been... http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/08/4mm.html http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/08/4mm.html Daily Blogging Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:34:28 -0500 I've mentioned before that i'm a big fan of Literature and Latte's Scrivner, it's the most comfortable writing tool i've found so far and it's helped me get as organized as i've ever been with my writing (which is... http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/08/betas_and_tweak.html http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/08/betas_and_tweak.html Daily Blogging Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:17:07 -0500 Oh wow, there's a site here! Imagine that. Actually, i haven't forgotten about my poor fredart site. The past few months (FEW?) have been kinda crazy, and i've been holding off on bringing this site back to life until... http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/07/something_new_t_1.html http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/07/something_new_t_1.html Daily Blogging Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:54:39 -0500 I did some free sketching last night, first time in a long time. There are a lot of stylistic habits that i have in drawing that i think have been limiting me a lot, especially when i try to... http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/07/fredart_sketch.html http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/07/fredart_sketch.html Daily Blogging Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:37:57 -0500 Yknow, it feels good to be working on Chapter 9. With all of the other things i've been working on since i finished Chapter 8, it's given me a lot of time to put my thoughts together about where... http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/04/a_decent_stop_a.html http://fredart.com/fredart40/archives/2007/04/a_decent_stop_a.html Daily Blogging Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:44:36 -0500