So I took a week off from blogging. I did, however, silently continue ogging. How can I not og? It's what I do. My blog reprieve was largely due to dealing with spammers, redundant code, and the accidental deletion of many valuable comments. But I've got all that figured out.

I've been on a stripe kick lately. I love stripes. I get pillars. I really do. I'm totally with the Greeks when it comes to pillars.

My grandmother used to call my socks "striped stockings". She pronounced "striped" as "stry-ped" so that the word was two syllables.

She's old.

I made these invitations for a recent conference. I am quite fond of them. They are made with this perfectly thick card stock that only one laser printer in our whole building will handle. The card stock is lightly marbled and adds a little texture to the graphics printed thereon. Then I made an insert on a thick white card stock with a lot of tooth. And, of course, I had to add stripes.












I am also painting my sons room with stripes but I will let my wife have those pictures for her blog.

~ Og out.

I'm not entirely satisfied with this but a deadline is a deadline, even if it is self imposed. I submitted a draft earlier. This is the "finished" version.

Started: Monday (as a sketch and subsequent draft)
Finished: Today, August 21.
Time taken: About nine hours (including sketch and draft)
Satisfaction: Tepid



For those visiting from Illustration Friday, feel free to peruse the rest of my blog. Like always, any comments left will be reciprocated.

Happy Drawing!

So I redesigned my blog. Again.

I couldn't decide on a color scheme so I decided on a little bit of everything. Basically, I took the color wheel, duplicated a layer and desaturated it, then gave it a sepia tone. Then I lowered the opacity of the sepia layer so that it blended with the vibrant color wheel layer beneath it. A few more tweaks and I got the funky spectrum seen above.

I thought I would let the reader get acquainted with the little faces in my header.



These oglings were created with an illustration style I dabbled in a few years ago. I could never find a use for all these faces I created but I've always adored the characters. I thought I would throw them in an ogblog redesign.

I'll probably change it again in a few weeks.

In other news, I got a lot of blog hits yesterday. I wonder why? 307 is the most I've ever gotten. About three times as much as I have been getting recently, and about ten times more than when I'm not actively blogging. Weird.

Here is a quick draft for Illustration Friday's "detach" theme. Hopefully, I'll get it done before Thursday. I think I will flesh it out even if I don't hit the deadline. I wish it was "illustration monthly". A week for somebody with a family and a full-time job is hard on an Og. Perhaps I will start doing the CGTalk challenges instead. . .