This last week was busy. I had stuff scheduled every day after the day job and a couple of days had more than one thing going on. I knew going into the week that getting time to work on anything was going to be tricky if it happened at all.
So I was surprised to get to the end of the weekend and find I had managed only one item in the sketchbook and no work on anything else. At least not art wise. I did manage to get a little caught up on my magazine reading. I take both 3D World and 3D Artist magazines and I am a few months behind on my reading. I’m getting close to caught up though so it must be time the the next issue of each to be out.
I thought I mentioned, but maybe not, that I was hoping to get to have a couple of my traditional type art pieces on display for the public. There is this really unique shop Charlotte called Fu Man Chu Cupcakes. They make cupcakes with a twist. They combine
interesting flavors to make their cupcakes some non-alcoholic and some alcoholic. One of
the features of this place is that along with the cupcakes, they have a whole wall or more of art for display and sale. They all appear to be relatively local to the Charlotte area. I met the person who curates this art collection at the art supply store and she said she would be interested in my having a couple of pieces on show. At the time I only had the cool pumpkin piece. She prefers at least 2 pieces not just one so I did the guitar piece. They are both all done and framed. I made a visit to Fu Man Chu Cupcakes and spoke with her again. And I will be delivering these two beauties Friday of next week to be on display for two months. I’m kind of excited.
So my sketchbook only saw a little action this last week. I managed this snow or sledding sort of scene. I was really disappointed I didn’t get to do more stuff. But as I said it was a busy week.
This week isn’t much better to be honest. I have been getting ready to go out to the Zbrush Summit in Los Angeles. I know I’ve told you about this. I watched last year’s inaugural Summit via LiveStreaming and it was awesome. So much great stuff and some really
talented, informative, and entertaining presentations. So this year when it was announced early enough that I could make plans to go I started doing just that. The summit is this weekend and I’ll be arriving in Los Angeles on Thursday so I’m rested and ready to go on Friday. Once again the Gnomon School is hosting the Zbrush Summit for Pixologic. This year, in addition to the presentations they will be having a sculpt off, the Zbrush awards, and work shops. I’ve signed up for a work shop on Sunday being lead by Eric Keller and I’m really looking forward to it. I am hoping it will be that little push that will help me get past a few things I have been struggling with in Zbrush. I’m also looking forward to some of the artist presentations, particularly Ian Joyner. I watched a Live Stream of a talk he gave at Gnomon a few weeks ago and I think he will be really interesting to see. And if my eyes do not deceive me it looks like we will get to see a short presentation from the legendary VFX artist Rick Baker which should be cool.
It’s looking like a really full and awesome weekend and I am sure that my brain will be full by the end of the weekend if not by about mid day on Saturday. I hope to have lots to share, if not about the event, at least about the excitement.
So with that all said, hopefully you will indulge me for a week or two while I partake of this fun event and I will get back to rigging Sticks and creating more 3D/CG art, sketchbook pictures and regular paintings soon.