Daily Creativity: PodcastJunky’s Ban Hammer!

PodCastJunkyFlatsmThis is a mashup of Thor and PodcastJunky’s Ban Hammer! All sparked from a conversation on facebook, for the back story, read below. Ink on paper, then scanned and colored in photoshop.

I’m part of a group on facebook, the Podcast Community. It was created by mega podcast fan herself PodcastJunky. What makes this group different than many other groups I’ve found is the fact that you are not allowed to self promote in the group.  Many people argue with this rule but it is this rule that makes the group so useful.  Because people aren’t spamming the group with self promotion people can ask questions, get answers, and spark some awesome discussion. In the beginning of the group PodcastJunky wasn’t as diligent with the no self promotion rule and it got to the point that people who had contributed some really great conversation left over it.  Keeping the self promotion out of it has given me the opportunity to not only get some great information about podcasting, like the newest technology, ways to record, mixer help, software help, where to list my podcast and how to list it, but when I had very specific problems the people who owned the company I was using was in the community and walked me through it.  There is a representative of Blubrry (the powerpress plug in many people use for podcasting) and a representative for Libsyn (a website where many podcasts host their files), and they both often answer questions and will look into issue people have.  While I don’t use libsyn because of this hands on approach I have recommended it to others.

PodcastJunky is very diligent about the self promotion, facebook added the advantage of letting members report posts to a group admin to help her out with this.  As she deletes and records or blocks and bans people for breaking the rules she tells us about it, and references the ban hammer.  In one other these conversations someone said Marvel’s secret was out and she was the new Thor… so of course I had to draw it.BanHammerBanner

Daily Creativity: Harm Carter FanArt

HarmCarterFanArtSMI drew this for Flash Pulp, the main character from the pulp storyline of The Murder Plague.  I made this as part of a Flash Mob contest, normally I don’t create art for contests, but this wasn’t the normal art contest, this was basically a community participation contest, and I’m always on board for those. Now that the contest is over and the results have been made public I can share this on my own site. This is made with color pencil and ink on paper.

Daily Creativity: The Clockwork Doctor Sketch

ClockDocSketchColorsmTek has been getting his signature cosplay The Clockwork Doctor done up by different artist at cons, getting a different interpretation by each of them.  It’s been a really neat project, so tonight I added my contribution to the project.  I had a bit too much fun with the patterns, but I blame not having enough diversity in my markers.

Ink on Marker Paper.

Daily Creativity: Rory’s reaction to a Poke Ball & the beginning of ART MONTH!

RoryPokeBall3/1/14: Today Marks the Beginning of ART MONTH! Art month is a tradition I started where I make sure I create something every day. It is the month of March, but often goes for longer, because it’s also for the length of Lent too, it came from me taking this on as part of lent one year. (You don’t always give things up, but do things to help you focus on God. Art helps me drown out life and reflect.)

So I thought I’d start us off this year with a drawing of Rory, I thought I’d try to draw him as a pokemon, asked Tek what I would need to do to display that, and he said a poke ball.  Well Rory will have none of that!  How dare you try to contain a dragon?  Imprisonment?  He thinks not!  So this was Rory’s reaction to being a pokemon, SMASH THE POKE BALL!