So I finally have officially started digital art again! All be it just rough lines and color fills at the moment, this will be my first piece (hopefully I'll finish) that I've done in years! With that in mind be gentle, just really roughed in at the moment. My digital tablet made quick work of this ... I have all the layers visible in this including guide lines and what not just to show the process a bit. Anyhow, I'm hoping to do a series with "extreme perspective" ... I'm not really into explaining my pieces but whenever it is done feel free to ask. Without further hold up, is that a barrel of monkeys!? ROUGH Beginnings
I finished up my resume site just now. I need to polish the copy but at least the design is done, and the code. I have some footer content planned, I guess I'll get to that eventually as well. Anyhow you can check it out at AdamCMills.com
Weekend was relaxing for once. I really just kind of did nothing except what I felt like doing in the moment. It has been a really long time since I've had a weekend like that. My Dad came up and wanted to play some Street Fighter 4, which I didn't mind at all was, quite fun, but it was pretty much the only thing that I had not "wanted" to do that I did do. I watched a few movies as well. The most notable of which would be Visioneers, it is brilliant and on your Netflix instant queue. The others were just OK, a lot of "eh" horror movies and Sugarhouse, which was actually pretty awesome in itself. Oh well, weekend is over now.
It is back to the grind tomorrow, going to try to make it into work a bit early seeing as how we have a 2pm deadline on almost the entire next phase of holiday. We'll see how far we get, I am optimistic! Anyhow, yeah going to bed.
So just finished launching the first wave of the Lowe's Holiday Campaign of '09. Changes up to the very last minute, still some UAT issues that haven't been addressed, but it is LIVE! Hopefully the next two phases will not be quite as late night intensive as this one was, but I can only control what I can control. Super tired here at 1:30am and I have to drive that hour and a half in the morning to get to work at 9:00am so I better be off. SLEEP!
Well, lets start with introductions. I am a father, software/web developer and artist. Wish I could be a musician, tried to be one … never really worked out. I think it has something to do with my refusal to wear skinny jeans. I am currently employed with Lowe's incorporated as a Web Production Artist acting as a Front End Developer. Yeah, I don't get it either. I also do quite a bit of freelance work, if your interested, but that isn't what this site is for. With me saying that you are probably now asking yourself, "Self, what is he using this amazingly fantastical site for?"
I am going to be using this blog to post some of what I am working on. Not to mention just a general vent place for those “emotions” you people speak of. To explain that a bit further, I have Schizophrenia and am beginning to have pretty much every symptom it offers here in my late twenties. That includes restricted emotion range, which on my meter is angry, ecstatic or bummed out more than a sad bus full of people who are really super sad. Anyhow it isn't all that bad, it has always been influential in my art which I am starting up again and hopefully posting on here. Right now my days are pretty full with working on several sites for myself and freelance along with lowes.com. But I am still finding time to do my digital art and hopefully a few other things to try and help keep my grasp on reality.
Some recurring themes you'll probably notice will involve my "feelings" about my job, my wife leaving me and my son being in Canada and me missing him every second he isn't here with me. The later two items on that list are extremely recent and quite the fresh wound, so definitely foresee them coming up quite a bit in these post in the upcoming weeks, months or however long these types of wounds take to scab over and turn into a gnarly scars of righteousness.
Well, I am gonna venture to guess that is long enough for introductions. I hope my writing style comes with time, cause right now this is pretty horrible and hard to read through. Hang in with me for a bit longer, it'll either get better or a whole lot worse with time. Later days!
