This blog is now defunct. I’ve started a new one at Blank Slate to chronicle my creative activities, and all future posts will show up there instead. (It’s too much of a pain to migrate past posts over, though, so they’ll stay here.)
The other change is that the main URL, BenjaminCrowder.com, is now going to redirect straight to Blank Slate.
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After a (far too) long absence, I’ve finally published a new Riverglen Press book, Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
I mainly made it as a test to see how Lulu’s pocket size books look (4.25×6.875″); if it turns out well, I’ll make it available on Lulu. As for the book itself, I spent about an hour on the guts and half an hour on the cover. More time would of course have been better, but I didn’t want to drag my heels on this any longer than I needed to, seeing as I haven’t put any books out in over a year. :)
Anyway, expect more books in the near future.
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I’m not sure what’s going to happen with the drawing thing, but here’s a piece I put together in Photoshop this morning since I had a craving to make some art:
More later once I get caught up.
I’m in a rush (my ride’s coming in like two minutes) so this isn’t all that great, and the title is…well, lame…but here it is:
And now for a real adieu till Tuesday. :)
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I’m leaving for Vegas tomorrow and won’t get back till late Monday night (I’ve got a master’s degree seminar thing all weekend), so the daily drawings will be on hold for now, but when I return I’ll post something for each day I was gone. (If I have time, I may even draw them while I’m there.) Anyway, adieu for the next few days. :)
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I don’t know if this even counts as a drawing. I might just change my goal from posting one drawing a day to posting one drawing or painting a …
This one started out on an index card, then got photographed and redone in Photoshop:
I think I ended up getting more towards painting than …
The title, “Incognito,” really has nothing to do with anything. I drew this on an index card, then photographed it and added the colors in Photoshop. I’m not …
Today’s is a total cop-out — I’m really trying to get to bed early (because I’m really tired), and I forgot about this until just now, so I quickly popped …
For this drawing I sketched out everything first on index cards, photographed them, then pulled them into Photoshop and traced them:
We’ll pretend that …
Until I get a scanner (or start doing this early enough in the day that I can use a library scanner), I think I’ll switch to drawing them in Photoshop. …
Today’s drawing, “Waiting,” is from a reference photo of a toy doll:
Blacking in the tie was a bad idea. And there are a …
For this one I wanted to do something geometric, with overlapping lines. This one’s called “Geometrica” (I know, how original :)).
It’s more of …
Yes, I’m a day late. But that doesn’t bother me. :) I’ve decided that for this drawing-a-day gambit, I’ll do each day’s drawing on an index card. …
I (obviously) don’t post on here very often. Sure, I’ve had a lot of other things going on — writing a novel, for example — but I don’t want …
Ran across 10 Absolute “Nos!” for Freelancers a few minutes ago. Good stuff, and very pertinent. I haven’t done that much freelance design yet (four or five …
I’ve gotten the bulk of the Riverglen Press redesign done, and it’s making me want to redesign all my other sites. :) Let’s just say that my design …
This morning I redesigned the blankslate.net dashboard:
Later, when I have more time, I’ll use different photos for each …
The background is a Photoshop composite of a number of different photos, including these from Flickr (licensed under Creative Commons):
I may have mentioned this in passing before, but I think I’ve found why my growth in 3D art (specifically Blender) has been rather stunted for the past while: I’ve …
Here’s the cover I put together for the ward directory this semester:
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I’m having to use Quark for a book project I inherited, and ick, ew, it’s so…blech!
Okay, that’s too harsh. And I realize that a lot of it has to …
