Woodpress

I brightened up my self-portrait and added a few more highlights, and completely reworked the color version. I’m happier with them now (although there are some pretty rough areas in the highlights if you look closely)…

Tonight I drew a picture of a beaver for my daughter to color. I think he’s casting a spell on that tree. I have no other explanation for the position of his paws.

Mostly for my own entertainment I’ve come up with an alternative set of numeric digits. Instead of using base 10 (decimal—one’s place, ten’s place, hundred’s place, etc.) I chose base 16 (hexadecimal—one’s place, sixteen’s place, two-hundred-fifty-six’s place, etc.). Hexadecimal works out well because I used four base symbols to represent 1, 2, 4, and 8. […]

This weekend I was playing a game (3D Reversi Deluxe) where the computer players have portrait illustrations associated with them, and my eight year old daughter said that I needed a portrait too. I got to work on that, and ended up with two versions… the one I like (the smaller version is boring, so […]

My kids really like Little Big Planet. I made this Sackboy outline (Sackboy is the main character) so I can print it out and my eight year old daughter can decorate her own Sackboys and girls. Feel free to download the full-size picture and use it however you’d like. Now she wants a Little Big […]

I found where the clouds come from.

I sometimes play Spore with my eight year old daughter. Her favorite part is creating things, of course. She has wonderful ideas, and is very particular about how things turn out. Here are some of the things we’ve made together:

This is a picture of a ball. I had trouble getting the lighting right on this shot–the primary light source was extremely bright. I couldn’t turn it down or off, and I had no way to diffuse it… so I ended up with this. I wanted to put something above the subject so that I […]