Me looking on

Bored today, so tried to make a new caricature of me looking on ....

2 RAWS

These two pieces were done randomly while I was alone in a bar. The place was cool, with nice jazz music, but I was alone and needed to do something. Took out the old pencil and tracing paper and started building stuff, these two stood out ... well in the raw form. I could not let it go and ended up playing with it in photoshop. It looks nice now :)

Color Flow

Permanent Marker + Highlighter, trying the big bulky strokes and mixing colors. Still experimenting. Hope you like it :)

Jags Flow, taking this style and adding my name in it. Seeing were it will take me. Names are cool and maybe will start trying to add symbols icons too. In fact I have a T-Shirt idea some were I am going to work on, wish me luck.

Flow 3

Another one of the flows, this time at A4 size. Still marker for black and highlighter for the orange. Don't know how long this is going to be, but I enjoy making it :)

2nd Flow

2nd Piece, I like it but did it on smaller paper so the strokes feel smaller. More crowded in fact compared to the first one. A5, with Markers and highlighter for color.

Celeris Homepage
One of the completed website I designed in Pepper that I am quite happy about. Quite elegance :)
Design was by me but development was done by Jens Neubert

Flow 070810

Marker plus color pencil on paper. One of the first piece on paper that I took from beginning to end. My disappointment is that I did not plan anything. Its a good start, in fact I hope to do more :)

BioHazard

Click on it and view it the way its suppose to be viewed. Big!

How to start

Contributed this short article in my friends blog, thought it would be good to post it here too:

The best way to become a good digital designer is to practice. Now I cannot help much in helping people focus and work hard (since I have problem with them myself), let me instead help you find free resources.

Fonts:
http://www.dafont.com/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2006/10/11/17-more-free-quality-fonts/

Photos:
http://www.sxc.hu/
http://www.morguefile.com/
http://www.stockvault.net/
http://www.cgtextures.com/

Templates:
http://readytemplates.blogspot.com/
http://www.oswd.org/

Sound:
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php
http://www.opsound.org/index.php

Filler copy:
http://www.lipsum.com/
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page


One thing to always remember, free does not always means free. The owner/creator is giving you the right to use for some reason. Charity, Glory or they just got bored. Find out the reason and how to repay them for their kindness, most of the time, in these sites, its not about money, but giving them the due credit.

If you want to contribute to this kind of life style, learn about your options first at:
http://creativecommons.org/learnmore/

Trying the Mind Map thingy

Trying this brain map thingy and figuring out which way to go to improve my skills. I know what I can do, but I need to know what I can do better. This hopefully helps me understand what I need to improve on.

Season's Greetings from Jags

Happy Holidays
To a joyful present and a well remembered past. Best wishes for Happy holidays
and a magnificent New Year.

From Jags :)

This is a test to see if this works

Using this Post Blog Entry software in Ubuntu. Looks cool but lets if it works.

This is part of my grand plan to use linux. I did choose the easiest to install and use. Slowly it will grow.

The future has linux or variation of it in its horizon.

Blender Particle Test 02

Okay two testing today. 1) the particle function in blender 3d (which by the way is cool!!!) and 2) uploading videos in the blog (simple but the compression is disappointing). One more coming up soon.

Glass render in blender

Rendering Balls

Rendering the classic balls to test lighting and reflection. Getting there ... getting there but still need quite a bit of figuring out with this one. Yafray with blender is the tool of choice for this one. Free and relatively simple way of reaching good quality work.

jagarts in blogger

Moved back to Blender3d, some parts of Shade just make it difficult for me to work on it. I had problems with some of blender's interface strategies before but with the growth of the software hopefully it has changed (or at least I have changed) making it easier to work with. The next few post will tell. First strategy is to learn the rendering capabilities so when I start modelling it would look good at the end of that cycle.

nothing happening

Wanted to post something for a while now but nothing is coming out of my mind and hands. Don't even know if i should take a photo, photoshop something or finally do some real 3d. Feel lost ... but then I should be used to that feeling by now.

Never did accept that I am good at any of the above.

Next week I will do it ... yes i will ... positive thinking do your magic.

Starting again

Trying to start doing 3D works again. Using a free copy of Shade 7LE from one of the magazines. Something simple and easy to make, which I think I did well with, lets hope i sustain this interest to a real great work.

Bulb

Turned out simpler that I originally planned but hey it still looked good. Nothing elese could add to the image that could enhance it.