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Welcome to the world of Shawn and Octoberson Design!

I'm a graphic designer who's finally starting to branch out into other areas of art and interests. I've been a graphic designer/production manager/graphic/production director for a local magazine. While I like designing ads and helping to produce a magazine every month, I also love to draw.

My hope for this blog is to post all sorts of new things that I've created, from sketches to finished works. I want to put my name and my work out into cyberspace, maybe it will end up making more creations to put into my digital portfolio! Please feel free to contact me if my design skills could be of use to you.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Keeping myself honest...

Day three of the 10 minutes to creativity that Anne and I agreed to do as a couple. I'd say as of this posting that I've already hit 2 and a half hours of it after the David Tennant sketch the other day followed by two nights in a row of trying to refine the piece I'm doing for Anne that was supposed to be a birthday and Christmas present before my computer decided it wasn't going to be hitting deadline. I'm still very nervous about my computer's ability to keep the project going, but so far so good. And what I've been trying to do with the project has been working pretty well, if I do say so myself. Now I'm just up in the air on whether to render it in a traditional way or do some more details and give it a little realism instead. We'll see how much time and patience I have, but for now I'm very pleased.

As for everything else, I got to design another spread at the office today so that was cool and I'll post those pages when the issue prints. For a quickie design it wasn't a bad one, in my opinion. I'm also trying to hammer out a media kit for some freelance work I was picked to do, which is always a good thing. I'll post more info about that as I can, but for now, that feels like a decent amount considering my lack of updates over the last months. It's amazing how starting a fire under your butt can make you do things.

I'm still waiting to hear back from the contact at the Baltimore Comic Con so I can see how much a table will cost me. I'm crossing my fingers that it's not TOO much money. Still, I was very excited and thankful to find out yesterday that Mike Hawthorne, a local comic pro, took the time to respond to my emails asking for a little help on the dos and don'ts of the convention circuit. Since I'll be a serious newbie at this one (at least on the other side of the table of things), I hope to do a few things right. Setting that as a goal for this year was a smart idea, I think, because it will make me produce some work that, hopefully, will be worth a look, if not some money. Still, I'm going into this just hoping to say "I did that!" Anything else will be icing on the cake.

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