A couple posts back I said I would wait for a while before setting this site up on a new domain. Well, I changed my mind. Click here and head over to www.droppinglsd.com. Basically, I got fed up with not being able to customize anything. I’ll change the Dropping LSD title one day, but it’ll be [...]
Archive for August, 2010
droppinglsd.wordpress.com has moved to www.droppinglsd.com
Posted in Direction, tagged changing domains, changing host, moving, new website, www.droppinglsd.com on 2010/08/11 | Leave a Comment »
new project: a personal wedding website, completely designed by moi
Posted in Motivation, Project, Web Design, tagged action plan, design, marriage, personal, planning, project, wedding website on 2010/08/10 | Leave a Comment »
Woot! I have “hired” myself to work on a nice big project: a wedding site for my my fiancée and me. This might very well be the first piece of a real design portfolio. The Framework The date is set for June 4, 2011, and we want to have a website available for our friends and family. [...]
illustrator tutorial completed: watercolor and marker style portrait of a bunny
Posted in Illustrator, Tutorials, tagged illustrator, marker, portrait, tutorial, watercolor on 2010/08/07 | Leave a Comment »
This was fun. Last night I spent an hour (Or so? Time flies.) doing a Watercolor and Marker Style Portrait tutorial for Illustrator by Miguel Cardona. It’s on Design Instruct, which seems like a really great resource. I used a picture of my fiancée as a base. Here she is at the top of a fire tower [...]
trying to figure out what this blog is all about
Posted in Direction, tagged aspirations, blogging, future, goals, plan, work on 2010/08/05 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve decided to refocus the content of Dropping LSD, because I have to come to grips with two of my less dependable personality traits. Also, I’m going to lay out the foundations of a Master Plan. Two Unfortunate or Fortunate Traits, Depending I get bored of things easily. I am good at thinking up ideas, [...]
microworld: twirling on elk plaza, yellowstone
Posted in Photoshop, tagged bunny, microworld, photoshop, tutorial, yellowstone on 2010/08/05 | Leave a Comment »
Found a neat and quick photoshop tutorial for creating microworlds. I’ve seen the technique called little planets in other places. This one was straightforward, just four steps. Here’s my base. This is a picture of my fiancée mid-twirl above Fort Yellowstone/Mammoth Hot Springs at Yellowstone National Park. The park town is actually behind us, this is [...]
Ted Olsen: “…I’m sorry if I interrupted you.”
Posted in Social Commentary, tagged chris wallace, fox news, judge walker, proposition 8, ted olsen, think progress, video, youtube on 2010/08/08 | Leave a Comment »
Sourced from Think Progress. Ted Olsen on Chris Wallace’s show, discussing Judge Walker’s Prop 8 decision. Boom, lawyered! Definitely, my favorite bit started at the 3:45 mark. What an awesome technique, and his delivery of it was timed perfectly. Overall that was a pretty impressive display on Olsen’s part, although I’m not particularly surprised at [...]
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