http://araisme.com/blog Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:51:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en They carry the earthly possessions of their late husbands wherever they go. http://araisme.com/blog/?p=14 Here's a five page mini-comic, in color! This is the first part of a story called Standard Procedure that I am looking to publish in the near tomorrows. There will be much ridiculous madness going on within the pages of this comic, and a little misguided romance as well. Plus, ... http://araisme.com/blog/?p=13 ...two bodies satiated. Two souls find their distance... http://araisme.com/blog/?p=11 I had this scene in mind a few months ago, and was able to return to it and work on the drawing. It's a view of a riot from above (seen from God's eye, or a news helicopter). I wanted to create a disturbing image that captured the chaotic, explosive ... http://araisme.com/blog/?p=10 This is work I did for a client in the recent past. The idea was to create a display housing for LeBron's sneakers that = regal x hip, and that also included a crown that would be forged in bronze. I mimicked the design of a chess rook for the ... http://araisme.com/blog/?p=9 This tutorial is pretty much extracted from an email I wrote to a friend of mine, but I thought it might be a useful for any reader who is new to Photoshop. It contains the very basics of what you need to do to get started in Photoshop, and to ... http://araisme.com/blog/?p=8 A good friend of mine is learning photoshop and began color experiments with a sketchbook doodle he made of Thor, the oldschool musclebound Marvel superhero/god. Omar is the doodler, and Chris worked the inks. Here's their creation. To help him get started I wrote a short tutorial on the very basics ... http://araisme.com/blog/?p=7 I've always been fond of studying people's works-in-progresses. Not only is it interesting to learn how they go about drawing an apple or a nekkid figure, it reveals how their thoughts are processed into a visual form. The most insightful part of it is in witnessing the revisional stages of ... http://araisme.com/blog/?p=6 She visits the dead and the dying in the form of their lovers... http://araisme.com/blog/?p=5 A blog is a mysterious organism. As soon as it's born, it sucks all your thoughts and opinions and spits it out to the public. Like a drunken leech that drinks your blood and vomits it out, drinking and vomiting, drinking and... OK, so I have a blog now. I'll have ... http://araisme.com/blog/?p=4