Category: Muse
The Children are Growing: What’s New for 2017
I’ve been making plans for the upcoming year. Top of my agenda is to finish my first Kinara’s Children picture book, tentatively titled The World According to Nia. The above images are rough drafts from the book in production as I work out the layout, design and workflow going forward. It’s been just over 2 years since I came up with the concept of using Read More …
Kinara’s Children Activity Pack
Kinara’s Children Activity Pack. Brand new for the current season and beyond. The Activity Pack combines the previous two card packs into a single set, replacing the previous Character Card and Activity Card sets. This is a pack of nine cards, one for each of the seven characters plus bio and “Score Card”. Each card includes a character’s bio, a description of the principle they’re associated Read More …
African Masks-3D Modeling
So this is something new I’ve been working on for the last month or so. I’m slowly teaching myself 3D modeling using Blender in order to create and modify simple objects for use in my Poser art. Here are two masks modeled after authentic sources, textured, and set up for display. I expect these to turn up in some of my other artwork in Read More …
Kinara’s Children: Everyday Heroes
Kinara’s Children: Everyday Heroes is a series of designs and illustrations based on the 7 principles of the Nguzo Saba, the underlying basis of the Kwanzaa holiday. Each principle is represented by a character who embodies these principles, Umoja, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Kuumba, Nia, and Imani. Aimed at a young audience, it lies somewhere between picture books and comics but it’s not your typical superhero group. Each character Read More …
Work in Progress: Kinara’s Children, everyday heroes
This is a rough from a series of images and stories I’ve been working on. More info to come as I clean up the concept and artwork. Stay tuned
My Favorite Things: Monoprice Graphic Tablet
Here’s an item I’ve had for about a year, a 10 x 6.5 inch graphics tablet by MonoPrice. This is a $50 tablet that packs a lot of punch. When my ancient 5 x 4 Wacom went out on me I decided to replace it. I hadn’t used the Wacom in a while but was interested in trying to do some postwork in my 3D Read More …
Back to the Future: 3D Digital Illustration
Pages from my sketchbook. I first started dabbling in 3D design back in 1995. Personal computers were getting more powerful and a couple of new, affordable 3D programs had just hit the market for Macintosh. Bryce was a landscape creation package and Poser allowed you to pose and render human figures. Fascinated as I am by most things digital, I picked up a copy of Read More …