benwatts.ca » illustration http://benwatts.ca Designer and Frontend Developer in Ottawa, Canada Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:00:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Takedown http://benwatts.ca/2009/takedown/ http://benwatts.ca/2009/takedown/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:58:09 +0000 Ben http://www.benwatts.ca/?p=512 I’ve tried a couple times this year to participate in “Make Something Cool Every Day” (it’s pretty self-descriptive, flickr set here)  but despite my best efforts I haven’t been able to do it successfully. There was a time back in February-April where I was getting close to making something every week, but even that slowly faded away. To help get around the issue I thought I’d challenge myself to a one-hour exercise: 30 minutes to sketch, 30 minutes in Illustrator. That didn’t quite work out, but the result was a tentacled monster taking down a ship. Yup.

Oh, I guess it should go without saying that I was largely unable to adhere to my rules. The sketch was done in under 10 minutes — so I shifted the other 20 minutes to Illustrator time. Then came 30 minutes of Photoshop time … which came about after my time in Illustrator was up and I wanted to keep going; I figure switching programs and setting a new time limit is fair, no?.

What can I say, the system isn’t perfect yet.
The process is too lengthy to do one per day. Balls. It’s got to fit into 30-45 minutes.

]]> http://benwatts.ca/2009/takedown/feed/ 2 Narwhal vs. Unicorn http://benwatts.ca/2009/narwhal-vs-unicorn/ http://benwatts.ca/2009/narwhal-vs-unicorn/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:04:59 +0000 Ben http://www.benwatts.ca/?p=491 A few weeks ago I donated to makemattdraw.com for an illustration. Today it arrived and it’s awesome! I’d highly recommend doing it for a sweet piece of art.

Now to get a frame.

heatedargument

narwhalcloseup

More photos @ flickr.

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