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So I decided that I wanted to get back to basics.

This is an anatomy study I did in Photoshop. There is also a GIF to show the progress I went through. Total creation time, about 5 hours 30 mins.

However I lost his head at one point and forgot to paint in back in. LOL! :p

Also had to use the liquefy tool to get the proportions right, I kinda dropped the ball on that at the start. But it was easy to fix. And you learn from your mistakes.

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Believe it or not, the hardest bit was getting the veins on the arm to look natural!

Just for fun, and the fact I wanted to practice with Adobe Illustrator a bit, I created this website design.

I created all the images used on the site. I didn’t take the picture of the workman, but I did edit it to fit into the square tile theme of the site.

Please note this for a fictional company I made up!

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This company is not actually live yet, but they gave me permission to post this logo here.

Hi all! Sorry for the delay since my last post. As you could see from my last post I’ve had a fair bit to deal with and have taken a longish break from any hobbies, business, ventures and such.

However, recently I have started to get the busy momentum going again!

So, what have I been up to?….. man…. where to start….

Although I said I was taking a break, I still seem to have found time to get into all sorts of mini projects along the way.

Just posted a new set of images in the Photo Editing section. A colleague of mine at work had an old family photo, and for what ever reason, he wanted me to remove one of the people from it and have me re-print it for him.

So that’s what I did:

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Ok, so this was a little creepy, removing someone from history…. lets just hope I haven’t stopped someone from being born now! :S But, this was also a great test of my skills, having to reconstruct things from the background where the man used to be. My colleague is happy with it though, so I guess I am too.

One thing that I am badly missing at the moment is ZBrush! I still have not had a chance to mess with it, even though we are now on V3.5R3!

But, with God’s blessing, I hope that will change very soon.

I have a couple of other projects I am working on at the moment too. Including:
A new site to help players of Pen and Paper Table Top Role Playing Games…. more on that later!
A small 3D printed money making idea with a friend of mine…. more on that later!
A 3D printing job for a space ship model…more on that later!
A possible 3D job on a music video…. more on that later… if it happens…;)

Not to mention the fact that I am still trying to fit all of this around 1 full time job, 1 part time job, and a VERY active family life! LOL!

So as you can see, I am still VERY busy! Hopefully some order will come to my life and I can get back on track with my various ideas and schemes!

Laters for now,

Mark

My children’s dance school teacher has been in dire need of a website for a while now, so we came to an agreement and I created this website for her.

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It was a challenging website, as it needed to have a number of pictures edited to fit the colour scheme of the website. Also their needed to be an editable private area for her students to log into to get information, whilst still keeping some of that information hidden from the general public.

There is also a promotional video there created by Greensleeves Films. Greensleeves is a very professional company who I enjoyed working with.

Julie is very happy with the site, and I hope it will be really useful for her, her teachers and her students.

For the pub games company Sovereign Games I created a number of new logos.

This is the only one I have permission to show right now, but there will be more when they have finished re-branding and updating their website.

It’s been a looooooong time since I had a chance to post anything!

So here is my last peace of work. I decided my skills in 2D painting are lacking again, so I needed to have a go at a portrait.

So here he is, Mr Jack Nicholson!…. ok so I know there’s some improvement needed…. but it’s not bad for me! LOL

I made a site for my Mother, now I make one for my Father! It’s only fair!

TheStrategicOption.com is a re-design of my Dad’s website for his consultancy company.

Actually for anyone looking for a business strategist for small or large co-orporations, from all around the world, my father Andrew Johnson has several decades of experience.

The site really is just a quicky, but it looks allot better than his old one.

It’s also the first one I used Spry code on… not that you probably  care… but I thought I’d mention it.

Check it out.

Yup that’s right! Finally after all this time, we have a new company mascot!

Dusty Ghost himself!

As you can see, he’s just a cute little ghost who’ll be popping up all over the Dusty Ghost website, this Blog, any invoices and contracts we send out, and of course any promotional material we may be sending out later!

Again, I must say thanks to Craig Thomson (cst-art.com) for the initial idea and concept.

In case you’re wondering, I made him in ZBrush using a toon material.

Expect to see a lot more of this little fella!