A new kind of art!

Wow, it's been a long time. (I say that a lot in my blogs.) My strained relationship with art has taken an interesting and awesome turn, mostly thanks to Bananapants over at HoChoAddict and his other new 'baby' in the form of a Canon Rebel T1i dslr camera. After using it a bunch to take some fun photos of friends, I realized what an amazing piece of equipment the camera is.

I had commented to Bananapants, "It's like painting! But about a billion times faster!"

So I sought the advice of the media-savvy gents at work, checked out other cameras, but in the end, I took the plunge and bought the same camera Bananapants has. I've had it for less than 24 hours, but I've been able to take some stunning photos of incredibly mundane things.

I was going to add of those photos with this post, but realized that I need to load the memory card software on my computer first.... and that CD is at home. Maybe tonight? :-)

2009 Fresh Start - Drawing Blog

As part of my 2009 resolutions, I thought that I'd actually use this blog for something. It has been a desire of mine to improve my artistic skill and do something more with it than just draw an occasional piece for a special occasion. So, I'll start today or tomorrow (life gets in the way of art quite a bit for me) and post up some sketches I've been putting on paper.

I've had schooling in painting and figure drawing (but never the two together!).. and I find myself most happy when drawing from life. Of late, I've been in a D&D fantastical character kind of drawing mood. Since I don't have a minotaur sitting in front of me when I draw one, it often ends up lacking in many ways. Ah, we'll see what I can scrounge up in the next few days.