Fluency in Pizza-Italian

Previously - A pet project of mine, involving a certain seal in space. I'm co-authoring it by doing the coding, sounds and animation. The rest I've left to more capable hands. It's an avoider-type game where you score points by collecting various consumables while dodging dangerous objects. As soon as I finish up the sounds, add some effects & animations and get the power-ups working, version 1.0 should be ready for the public.

The picture below was suppose to contain radically different items than what is currently featured, but ultimately this was the most consistent choice to make. It features a recognizable logo that I whipped up in Inkspace and then imported into the picture. The texts tend to immediately give away what the picture is referring to, but not in the sense in exposing the main subject. It took a whopping 6 - 8 hours to do by my estimate, and involves the prominent use of pattern overlays and bevel filters.

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Spaaace!

Previously - My thesis work has kept me pretty busy for these past four months. So much so that I've neglected all other studies excluding it. It's taken me roughly a year to finish, due to work getting in the way. With a total length of 65 pages, it's now awaiting review. I hope to have it out of the way by the summer of this year.

This pic was drawn (or micromanaged into life..) with vectors. As previously advertised, it was made with Inkscape. I primarily used the straight-and-bezier-line-tool  (or whatever it's actually called) to draw a lot of the shapes, occasionally cheating by making shapes out of various fonts. A lot of gradients went into this one. I'm worrying that I'm overdoing it with them however, as I'm not too good with subtlety. I used two filters - one on the main ship body and one on the lights attached to it. Filters drastically slow down any operations within Inkscape, so I use them sparingly. The starry background was made in Photoshop, as adding noise is apparently a raster technique. It took me roughly four to six hours to finish. Much of this time was spent fiddling with filters, gradients and such, rather than creating shapes.

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An Illustrated Guide to Life

I'd have hoped to have posted this yesterday on May 1st, but I wasn't able to reach the necessary art files. Long story short - It's been a busy time in my life. Rather than explaining the stuff that's been keeping me busy, I'd rather try showing it instead. It is my intention to draw five subjects over five weeks, but let's see how that goes. I tried out the open-source vector illustrator Inkscape during the weekend. What a positive surprise! I was expecting an uphill battle but it was a rather smooth ride instead. I've tried my hand at Adobe Illustrator by way of drawing logos and GUI elements, so I wasn't a complete stranger to the purpose of Inkscape. Perhaps I can post some of the output here once this sketch-stretch is over.

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