Photos up on Flickr

Went to the Royal International Air Tattoo yesterday, got some good snaps.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/grimmie/sets/72157621688580244/

Holy crap it’s April

I haven’t made a post in ages, I am a terrible, terrible blogger.

Most of my updates have gone directly into Twitter, my lovable microblogging friend, leaving this log book all crusty and unused. I’m sorry, Logbook – please forgive me.

I’ve settled into working at RoSPA. It’s great, I love it here.

I’m making all sorts of sites and getting the opportunity to flex both my technical and artistic design muscles. Today I’m mocking a couple of designs up in photoshop for one of our upcoming projects, with magnificent results. When the final site is up, I’ll be adding it to my portfolio, of course.

Life is grand.

Deviant Tart

So, I’m posting on DeviantArt again, and slowly remembering why I left in the first place. It used to be somewhere where I could relate with similarly skilled ‘artists’ and post up some stuff. People would comment on things, albeit with smiley faces, but it was a pleasant community of creative people..

It now seems that unless you draw like a god, anime, furries or fan-art, there’s not much hope for you. Classic photographers and digital artists are swamped by the deluge of Final Fantasy and Pokémon fan art. There’s no hope for the artist who wants to do his own thing. Considering DA started up as a place to share custom skins for applications it’s come a long way, and arguably in the wrong direction.

I really want to put my stuff ‘out there’, and let people see it, but DA doesn’t seem to be the answer. However, I’m one step closer to fulfilling my 2007 resolution. I’ve signed up with 4uhosting.co.uk. I’ll be installing WordPress there tonight, and installing ComicPress on top of that. Vlad might well be on the way to his very own space on the webbernets, quite shortly.