Hooray! Success!!!

Well, I am excited, as you can see... 2 posts in the same day!! WOOT!! So I'm working at 6 Flags Great America, and let me tell you...I LOVE MY JOB!! Two times now I've followed the impetus of getting a job in the 'real world' and I'll tell you what... The real world can have their stupid jobs. I work at 6 Flags Great America, and I think it's the best job on the planet, bar none. Do they have their issues? Of course. Do people act stupid sometimes? Oh yeah. But you know what? There is no other job that I've ever had where your individual presence can be DRASTICALLY responsible for how people around you feel. Now, I'm gonna say this and get it out of the way, I'm a people idiot. What does that mean? I'm glad you asked. It means that I am one of those guys who will make a complete idiot out of himself just to get you to smile, or laugh, or at the very least, to realize that life is not all that bad. You're encouraged to be yourself, and the more genuine you are, the better off you'll be. I've worked a few different departments, and I've found this to be the case in every one. Working at Six Flags is like being at summer camp. It really is. I love my job. Anyway, having said all that, to say that when I got home from work today, I decided to play around with Adobe Photoshop and I'm learning the 'Pen Tool'... which for those of you who don't know, can be quite a daunting task to say the least. But once you get it, you GOT it. So anyway, I did a few practices on some sketches that I did, and I've posted them below. The neat thing about the pen tool is that it creates a work path (I know, way too much information...but stick with me, I'm almost there...) that allows you to modify the individual paths you've created. Adobe Photoshop is probably the MOST powerful illustration tool I've been exposed to yet, and I continue discovering new things every time I use it. You come up against a situation where you need to do something that your current knowledge base does not cover, and you simply try something new. If you have a hard time I've found the help and index to be an insurmountable force against any problem, and simply experimenting will train you in anything you need to know. So without further adieu, here is my original sketches with their 'pen tool' equivalents...
This is the original sketch...









This is the original sketch traced with the pen tool, and the work path (which is the pen tool tracing) has been stroked with a black paint brush...








This is the same original sketch, but the paths that were created with the pen tool have been stroked with different colors. It was as simple as selecting the path you wanted to work with, selecting the color, and viola, a colorful ANGEL ME is rendered for the general public viewing.








Another example, a sketch I did based on a web comic that I read by Senay Dragon, whose Manga style is just incredible. I tried to contact her without success to find out what she's been up to since her last update, but unfortunately I never heard from her. I enjoy the Manga (Japanese Style) because it emphasizes and exaggerates the emotions that the characters are feeling, and quite often the end result is that you laugh yourself silly reading it.




















So that's all I have time for tonight to update. I hope that this entry has been informative and fun to read, I'm off to bed. Working open to close tomorrow! WOOT!!!

Kuragari