Apologies for the long absence! I’m sad to say that my laptop still hasn’t been fixed. T_____T Some of my more techy friends will take a look at it over the weekend, and hopefully I’ll be up and running soon (and posting more regularly). Much thanks for your continued patience and love!
As promised, here’s my latest step in my Kaki King guitar project process. I lost a lot of process photos when my hard drive died, but imagine if you will layers and layers of paint built up into an awful mess, uneven eyebrows, and off-center lips. The (gasp) puffy cheeks and washed out skin tone stage can be seen below.
I have the bad habit of overthinking/overworking a painting, hating it, sanding it all off, and starting fresh. It’s a crazy and nerve-wrecking part that has insidiously crept into my process.
After a bit of sanding and sighing, it became this (above). The guitar is so close to being finished. Just a few more sleepless nights of tweaks and installing hanging hardware, and it’ll be show-ready.
As always, thanks for stopping by and checking in!
My wee Powerbook is still getting fixed. He’s a trooper. My IT guy sent me these screen shots for giggles.
before
after
He then showed me an 89-page pdf of all the errors that he fixed so far. I think my face turned 3 shades of red when this one popped up. Why did Ryan have to name the router, “puppynuts”?
My poor Powerbook is giving me the grey screen of death, and I will have to get it serviced tomorrow. If all goes well, I’ll be back and running by the weekend.
It’s never a good sign when the first line on your screen starts with the word, “panic.”
Yay, after months, I finally got the database back up. We also have our first print for sale again. I apologize if we lost any of your submissions and your user logins.
Let me back track a bit. Originally, we had set up this site to be sort of like a Threadless, but for prints. I was going to sell some of my own prints from our shop + use some of the revenue to fund a monthly contest. The NvP community would vote for a winner + we would print their poster. The cool thing would be that unknown artists would be able to get their stuff out into the public + folks would be able to own some cool art (that they hand-picked themselves). Unfortunately, with our server move issues, + our hectic jobs/schedules, we haven’t been able to do so. This dream was sort of put on hold. At one point, Penguin was holding down his full time job, 2 freelance gigs, + being a youth group leader/drama instructor at our church. And I’ve been pretty busy with my bread + butter job, wedding invites for friends, + non-profit org design work, so I haven’t had a chance to fix + tweek the bezier curves for my upcoming prints. Not to mention that since our database is down, I haven’t been able to sell my current First Kiss print. =( No worries though, we will get our ish together! In the meantime, I just wanted to say a HUGE thanks to y’all for your emails + constant encouragement. You guys TOTALLY ROCK!!!
Whew, with that being said, I’ve had the pleasure of exchanging some emails with photographer, Mr. Steffan Chyzak. He’s been patiently waiting for us to get our database back to up + running order. My deepest apologies for this long delay. And a big thanks to Mr. Chyzak for sharing his work with me! =)
Steffan has some cute lil’ animal photos like this hedgehog (+ he’s got some penguins in his gallery too, hehe). Please check out Steffan’s website (click on the photos link in the menu on the left) + if you’re interested in ordering photos, he can reached at via email at steffan@steffan-alternativedesigns.co.uk.
Also, I do get quite a bit of email (anywhere from 50–100 emails a day). Haha, not all from NvP; I’m not that popular, so I apologize if any of yours got lost in the shuffle. I promise I will do my best to reply back to y’all in a timely manner.
Thanks to Zach for pointing out that one of our domains didn’t redirect to the right server. I guess when our webhost moved servers two weeks ago, they didn’t change one of our domains.
Hallo & good afternoon! I hope all of you had a wonderful Father’s day! =)
My email seems to be up and running again, whew. Unfortunately, I think I’ve lost all my old ones from my inbox, so if you’d kindly send me your letters again, I’ll respond straight away. Feel free to drop me a line at ninja [at] ninjavspenguin [dot] com.
Whew, it feels nice to flex my Illustrator muscles again! I’ve been falling behind with my open source monsters, so I sort of cheated and combined blots 8, 9, + 10 together. I hope you like it (I made a lil’ cameo, too). I will post the process later.
I still need to get some sleep in. I gave in and took a 4 hr nap after my last post. It’s 6:52 AM now, + I need to catch a bus into the city in 6-7 hrs? So I bid you farewell for now. If any of you are attending the AIGA fresh dialogue, I’ll see you there!
Good nite!
Sleepy smiles,
Ninja =)
PS. About two weeks ago, I received a notice that my NvP email inbox is full, + unfortunately I’m still not able to access it. I apologize for those who’ve written me (thanks for your letters). I promise I’ll write you back as soon as I get this all sorted out. I’m guessing you folks want more letterpress info?
