Typographical Love

Be forewarned, there's some profanity in the following images. If you prefer not to see it, you'll want to skip this post.
My recent Star Wars pieces aren't my first forays into expressing my Geek-itude via typography. It all started when we moved into our current apartment and decided we were done decorating our home with posters bought in the framing section at Michaels. We had been looking around for a long time trying to find a way to decorate the long, short (as in not-very-tall) section of wall over our breakfast bar.
What I came up with was a series of four prints that, framed, look a little like this:
The featured movies are Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and Snatch.

These hung for a long time before they started to get some admiration from visitors and I soon did The Big Lebowski and The Princess Bride prints by request as gifts for last Christmas.
When the Etsy store opens (and I have decided to do so, more to follow on that) I'll be posting some of these for sale. Here are some closeups on Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, and The Princess Bride:

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this style, leave me some comments. :)

In other news, I've redesigned my other blog, FatBlog! as well as Kelly's, A Perfectly Paper Blog, so check out both. I have also begun work again on my action/fantasy novel, which I hope to self-publish (as in, make a few copies for myself and maybe some friends) by Christmas. The book will feature a full-cover dustjacket and chapter illustrations (a' la Harry Potter), so expect some of that work to appear here in the weeks and months to come.

I've also been thinking about participating in a Shirt.Woot Derby some time in the near future, if inspiration strikes (as if I don't have enough projects).

What's everyone else up to lately?

All Quiet on the Blogging Front..

I know, I know... It's been a little quiet around here lately.

But I did recently write TWELVE posts on my other blog, over at my web design and consulting business, Fat Dude Design.

The posts themselves are concerned with building a Facebook Fan Page for your brand, business, art, or craft. You can check it out here.

Later this week, I'm going to offer to make a portrait of you, and talk a little bit about selling my wares on Etsy.

More to come...

A little plug...

I'm a busy little bee. Maybe sometimes not quite as busy as others, but lately more so than before.

One of the many hats this busy little bee wears is as a web designer. Tonight, we're celebrating the official re-launch of Kelly's website. Please join me in congratulating Kelly on her redesign. You can visit her at www.myperfectlypaper.com, and drop her a line at her blog, www.myperfectlypaper.com/blog.

Or... hey, while you're at it, you can put your money where your mouth is, and congratulate her with a purchase of a beautiful paper rose bouquet that is more beautiful and perfect than the real thing... and will never wilt or die. Pony up at perfectlypaper.etsy.com

And hey... speaking of web design, did I mention I have a special little web designer hat? Well, I do! Seek me out at www.fatdudedesign.com.

As a side note, today marks the official retirement of the "Current Projects" label for me, cuz... I'm not writing about much else here. I might as well label them "blog post."

Wow, I guess that's it for the weekend already... Happy Monday, everyone!

Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station!

Here's the last one. I'm not 100% satisfied, so it may not be quite fully armed and operaitonal yet, but it's close, I think.

Here's what all three currently look like next to one another. Darth's spotlight effect is a little more pronounced than the other two, and I like it better, so there will be a little bit of tweaking to do.
I have a lot of web design and writing work on my to-do list, so I may be silent for just a bit on the art front, but I have many many more projects on my plate for this blog as well, so stay tuned!

Random Art #1

From time to time I'm going to share some random recent projects of mine. This is more of a test than anything else, to see how much better I've got at some different techniques since the last time I worked on getting my webcomic off of the ground.

I call this "Mine?"