I spent the evening tweaking decloned to add a few new features and set it up more professionally than it has been in the past. Natively, it is set up to use several different plugins, but I may go ahead and release it into the public if there is enough interest.
I originally based the theme off of the Gluttony Theme by wpdesigner but it got a bit more altered in my take of it. The theme has 6 different widget locations… including the logo, the header ad placement, the three featured areas as well as the sidebar. I may add some to the footer as well. We’ll see…
Anyway, it was inspired by Hugh’s new theme (http://www.gapingvoid.com) after David Hayward told me about how he liked it and possibly wanted something like it for nakedpastor.
I think this guy is nocturnal too….
Gimp and about five minutes made this farmer guy. Some of the details I liked that came out of this sketch were the hand that is holding the shovel and the folds in his red shirt on the same arm. The overalls jean texture worked out fairly well too. Faces and form are two areas I need to work on the most when it comes to drawing people.
Back in my days writing the art blog “Artist Hideout” with b5media, I did a lot of featuring of other artists. Today, I get to be in the other shoes of someone who is being featured on someone else’s blog. It’s a nice change.
My “Reach for Light” iphone (actually I use an ipod touch) drawing was featured at Just iPhone Art today. It’s weird, though since I only started doing iphone art using the iphone app, “brushes” just about two weeks ago. To be featured among some of the other amazing artists there is pretty cool. If anything, I have been using “brushes” as a means to play with conceptual pieces without really dragging around my laptop and wacom tablet. Besides, it fits better in my pocket and I don’t take up four seats at the coffee shop with just an ipod either.
Thanks for the feature Patrick.
This is my most recent image from my foray into brushes for iphone/ipod touch. If you haven’t checked out the brushes group on flickr yet, you should…
http://www.flickr.com/groups/brushes/pool/
Today has been an interesting day. I helped by dad with a recreation of the ten commandments for a VBS thing he is going to be in this coming week.
First off, stone tile was difficult to find in a stone tablet size. We bought the big 16-1/16th” tile and cut it in half. Oh no, we didn’t have a saw with a diamond blade to cut it with. I scored it with my dremel and broke it over a railroad tie to get the thing equally in half. Then we had to round the tops, so it looks like Charlton Heston stepped out of the “Ten Commandments” movie and handed us his prop.
Then, of course, someone wanted the letters carved into the tile. Tile isn’t meant for carving into. We figured that out trying to break it in half. I shouldn’t have even asked the dreaded question “What font do you want to use?”
Why did he have to choose a ‘Gothic Blackletter’ font?
We finally decided to recreate the Gothic font using charcoal and a do-it-yourself transfer paper (a piece of paper printed with the exact format on the front and charcoal over the back of the lettering on the reverse side). We bought and tried a t-shirt transfer sheet first, but that did not work at all. Apparently, t-shirt transfers only work on… well, t-shirts rather than tile.
So far it’s looking pretty good. We only have one tablet finished so far. We’ll do the other one tomorrow. I sent it home with my dad for homework. 
Maybe then, I’ll remember to take a picture of them to upload.
This didn’t start out as a strawberry, but it became one… Maybe it’s an inner longing for a fruit of some kind. ooh, we have mandarin oranges….
Runs off to the fridge.
I will begin printing some of these soon. I think the size will eventually be either business card size or aceo. Iam leaning toward buisness card size. Exploring working on such an intuitive interface is a unique experience.
