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Something a Little Scary

October 30, 2008

In the spirit of Halloween and scary thoughts in general, here's a sketch of an in-progress piece that I consider something of a departure for me. It all started about a year ago after a few terrifying nights reading H.P. Lovecraft stories before bed. I decided to create something of my own based on all of the elements of Lovecraft's work that I found most terrifying.

At the moment, it's just pencil on newsprint, 18" x 24", and I must say, it is far more striking and disturbing as a real-life drawing than on a computer screen. Something I hope to remedy as I progress, obviously, but unfortunately it is a pitfall of displaying work in digital format. Something always seems to get lost in the translation to 1s and 0s.

Anyway, Happy Halloween, and enjoy.

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Technical Difficulties

October 29, 2008

Due to some incredibly frustrating coding problems with my blog template, I have opted to temporarily roll with one of the icky pre-fab Blogger templates (chosen more or less at random) to avoid potential glitches until I can figure out what the hell I'm doing.

Apologies, the Illustratology-style format will be back as soon as I can manage a rewrite.

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Illustratology News Flash

September 12, 2007

My new pieceI have a new finished piece up on my Illustration page. If you haven't been over there in a while, maybe you should take a minute or two and check it out. There's some new stuff up there (newest stuff is generally towards the top of the page) that I've been too busy to announce to the world.

In other news... uh, nothing. I have some site design changes in mind, but it may be a couple of weeks before they go into effect, due to the tedious and daunting nature of web design in general. I'm also still working (sporadically) on a new pinup painting. No idea in the world when it may be finished, but I'm optimistic that it will be some of my best work.

End Transmission.

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Illustratology Blog Announcement

January 18, 2007

Coming in February 2007 (or sooner)!

Yes, I am becoming one of those "blog people". If you'd like to know what the blog is going to be about (eww.. I hate the word "blog"... I wish it was called something else. It sounds like some kind of gross combination of "blood" and "egg") I really don't know quite yet.

This blog is mostly inspired by sheer laziness, please note the irony of that statement, since the actual mechanics of putting the blogging tags into my own web format were a living hell that drove me to the brink of insanity. I just decided months ago that I wanted an extremely simple and fast way to post any random thoughts, ideas, or news that I had onto my site without having to go through the whole hassle of republishing a page every time.

Anyway, hope you enjoy it when it actually begins to accumulate some substance.

-Rick

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  • Blogtasticular!

    I look forward to reading your thoughts. I know first hand that there's a mess of something going on in there.

    By Anonymous Mike @ 9:15 PM, January 18, 2007
     

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