Sri

I used to work with an SRE team (site reliability engineering). I wanted to create a logo for the team, and found a Sanskrit word ‘sri’ (there are other spellings) meaning ‘a successful result’. Seemed a good basis for a logo. The word sri has a distinctive symbol, and I tried to make an animal version of this symbol. This was my best result (my first attempt was a duck). Unfortunately, I parted ways with the team before I could roll out my creation.

Dancing Guy

Not sure where this is headed, but I like his energy and clean lines.

May 2021

Have been diddling with Procreate over the past year. I’ve found a few pieces of art that are worth sharing.

Jan 2020

Ok, I’m back.

I resolved for 2020 to pursue 3 tracks — art, writing, and music — and produce one tangible product for each track each month. Aggressive I know, but without a challenging stretch goal, I know I’d just sit around and not accomplish much of anything. Across all 3 tracks, I’m progressing at 50% of the heroic pace I chose — which isn’t that bad.

Here’s my January art: a digital painting. I’d show you the original from which it was drawn, but it would just make mine look bad. I tried an exercise that I discovered online, which is to split a face down the middle, and try to draw the other half. I did this for each half of the face, combined it, then cleaned it up. Note that this is entirely freehand — nothing from the original photo was included.

I could keep polishing/refining it forever, but it’s time to move on. (Actually, now that I’ve posted it, I see that I could blend the skin a bit better — which I may invest maybe another 15 minutes to do. Ok, I’ve improved it — yes, it was worse.)

Hatchery

I like the colors here, and the cross-hatch pattern.

2019 / Procreate app (iPad) + 53 Pencil stylus

Diag

Similar colors to ‘Splash’, but a different feel.

2019 / Procreate app (iPad) + 53 Pencil stylus