Signature, Shop, and Star Wars

So, it's been a while since I've posted. Last time I had the excuse of being hyperactive over at my other blog, Fatblog. This time... Eh, I've just been lazy. It happens.

However, for the last two days, I feel like I've done nothing but work, so what goes around come around, or glass people shouldn't throw stones at baskets of unhatched eggs, or... whatever colloquialism I'm looking for.

My first bit of business lately was coming up with a new digital signature for my art. I've been looking lately at going back to my geek roots and starting up role-playing again. As such, I've been looking at the Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 Players Handbook, and noticed some art by Scott Fischer. Ficsher's art is sweet, but what I really noticed is his signature:



I thought, man, my poorly scribbled "SS" just doesn't match up to that. I love the play on his name with the fishbone. I drew on that idea and thought "Smith... Smithy... Blacksmith", and thus came up with the following. What do you think?


In slightly more relevant news... I opened my Etsy Store! Skahfee Studios is open for business. You should check it out. For now, just my Star Wars pieces have posted. Over the next week or so, I'll be posting new items every couple of days. Keep an eye on my shop for the items, and keep an eye out right here for some words on what the piece means to me.

I've already talked a (quite) bit about Star Wars here, so that's why these 3 pieces don't get their own post. Seeing the Star Wars movies was a formative moment in the childhood of quite a number of geeks, and I certainly can't count myself out of their number.

A lot can be said for the work that Lucas has done in the last ten years and how... uh, not so wonderful... it has been. What is hard to deny, however, is that Lucas is a master world builder. Every alien race, every futuristic piece of machinery, every planet where it never stops raining (or never starts) that he created could easily be a bit of flimsy, two-dimensional scenery for his actors to chew. Instead, it all feels grounded in a real history and it's all just swimming with little perfect details. That is Lucas's legacy, and it's something that should make every creative mind jealous long after we forget how wooden Hayden Christensen was as Anikin Skywalker.

Anyway, that's enough from me... I'll be back!