Kevin Smith

Shouts & Hollers is an online "ezine" of sorts that is published by Charleston, WV, area bloggers.  Bill Gardner got in contact with me to answer a few questions regarding a recent sideproject of mine.  Read it here.

Thanks Bill!

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Bored and playing with different tools in Illustrator.

We've been working with Flash in my Intro to Computers in Art class and I wanted to play with with Flash a bit more than the assignment I've been working allowed me to (even though the assignment has allowed me to play and learn quite a lot, a clock wouldn't be able to fulfill its requirements). I searched around and found a basic tutorial on how to create a very basic clock and I went from there. I didn't want to simply do numbers so I quickly plopped out another idea. Here's a very simple, very ugly clock that depicts the way most 9-5 people spend their waking hours.

My roommate lives off Chinese takeout and McDonalds.  Here's a menu with an amusing typo.

Going home for the first time in a while this weekend.  Happy Birthday, Dad!

The assignment: "Create a vector-based self-portrait. Using the photographs we've taken in class as a guide, make a vector-based self-portrait with Adobe Illustrator. The object of this project is to be as visually detailed and honest as is possible while using only strokes and shapes. Illustrator-based effects such as blurs, blends, and gradients are not permitted. Strokes and shapes - that's all. Your primary tools in this project will be the pen tool (and its subtools), the pencil tool, and, possibly, the brush tool."

The Result:

I enjoyed it for the most part.  I plan on delving into Illustrator a bit more when I get time.

I also have quite a few pieces from my ceramics class that I recently fired.  I'll try to get some pictures of those when I can.

Oh yeah -- Woot for Obama.  His speech was very powerful -- it almost brough a tear to my eye bahaha.  I don't know if I was just feeling very wimpy last night or if his words were just that powerful.  I'm going to say it was a mixture.