belated mother's day Card

I am in the midst of Game of Thrones during the Mother's day weekend- So I got the idea of showing the fanboy in me about the institution of Motherhood- which of course I know nothing about- Maybe when I grow up, I will adopt-

doodling while sitting with Detroit tradecraft members

I was inspired last night to think about drawing again and to doodle while sitting with Detroit Tradecraft members.... I made statements that the group needs to get into the fund raising and networking phase  and was hit by a lot of new ideas from  a new member as well as an old about getting the world to know we are Alive- I credit new member Kelly Guillory( from Ahsur Collective)- a dynamic young artist and writer has  become the newest member of Detroit Tradecraft and she is a current-"in the trenches" working artist with ideas and plans for living from her art.  She came to her first meeting and this past Saturday and seemed to really vibe with the group and inspire Michael Marcus and those present with her bubbly personality and ideas on trends and media networking.  She appears to be an advocate for the Detroit Area Comic and Art scene. When we did a movie watching hang out later the young lady brought in some of her work, She started working on a commission she had to finish and she has some really awesome skills. Her productivity inspired me to do some doodling of my own- Oh also inspired by the Metal gear Solid (next gen) Game Teon had in the Background.. I got to see Michael Marcus totally engrossed in the game- with his legs twisted into a pretzel- speechless- Priceless...

Getting back into Comics again-

I am planning to get into web comics in 2014 and I am thinking about a cool girl- heroine series. I call it Fx Mulrooney's G-Girl6- In my head, it will be a mix of web comic and social media communication... I am always trying to find a sweet spot- got a lot to do in 2014- including helping other get their comic project done- well here is a quick selfie of the main character Jamie- the upcoming G-Girl6...

title images from hard-drive

I pulled off these from my hard-drive- I created these blender/photoshop images while helping with Bright Futures program At the Ypsilanti High School in 2011.   I really enjoyed working with the high school kids and i did these title spots for  a couple of groups that were running during my time at the school.  I did not want to loose them to time and old hard-drives so up to the blog they go....

oh0 sorry- explanations needed- The Ypsilanti Soul Steppers were a talented High School Step team coordinated by Rev Sanders- a coordinator and teacher. They did some great performances during special school functions.

And Rice records was the operations of young would be rappers cutting tracks with the Bright futures built in sound booth- coordinated by Mr Pierre Rice- a counselor in the program

another blender sculpt

okay I want to do another sculpt so i can move on to the next stages in modeling- retopology- I am practicing trying to keep forms clean and surface smooth- I experimented with cycles node base rendered materials with this one- using a mix shader to mate up a glossy and diffuse render. I also made sure my base model had smooth turned on before rendering and render sampling was on 75 for a smooth look.. After watching a couple of Kent Trammel videos with blender cookie- I am starting to figure out size of brush and scene magnification to smooth out a sculpt more efficiently- I know I can only go so far until the system slows for saving file frequently is useful- For one offs and images it is okay to keep the high res - but I know retopology is needed  before mapping and rigging- those are my next steps after sculping- so here is another image

random- image pics- with branding

Just trying something new for branding purposes- drawing characters on forms with the i below ground productions llc and the Detroit Tradecraft logos- to be used online... One of the big issues with the Detroit Tradecraft group is that there is no branding of the group and no one knows who we are or what we do- so putting out some images in 2014 with Detroit Tradecraft logos that could be used for prints at conventions may be a great idea... or not!- Anyway here is one pic with the branding on it- enjoy

Sculpting on a snowy day-

Okay- I decided to do it again and create a head sculpture of another character of FX Mulrooney comic serires- I am getting better and will probably be going over these designs again before final production.  The sculpt today is of Harlequinn Hunter, one of the main antagonist to the FX Mulrooney character.  he will have a lot of scene time in FX Mulrooney 4 which is slated to be in 3d..... the more I stay at it the more it will come  true for me and the viewers-

Again I did this sculpture in Blender 3d. - Cheers