I recently was reading about wordpress 3.0 and well I am a huge wordpress fan. So I just had to upgrade and in the process made the decision to overhaul my website and well this is the results of that overhaul. I am calling this design emboyd v3.0 seeing is how this is the third installment in my ever changing website redesign. I have added a lot of new features and at this point I am still not completely done. I have lost the last years content and as such I hope to replace it soon. So this site will see many updates and changes to come in the content department. More sections will be added as well. I hope to actually get some real tutorials up for the first time. So hope you all enjoy what I have done and look forward to what I have coming shortly.

If any of you have ever used those wooden Drawing Mannequin then you will love this. I found these a month or so ago and I can’t get enough of them. they are approximately 3 inches tall and work great for drawing poses. I have a lot of these now and find them fun to have. They come in many colors and sizes, well the girls do guys not so much. They are Microman, but this particular Read the rest of this entry »

If you read my last post entitled “Kid  At Heart”  you know how much fun I had with the single shot Nerf gun, so you can imagine how excited I was to discover they have a six shot revolver. However after purchasing a few, I was disappointed in the standard yellow color you see in the back of the newly painted ones I created. So here is what happens when I get bored. As you can see I repainted them to look more interesting and less kid-like. I am after all 29 years old. Even my friend got her own pink princess gun!

Whats really cool is there are tons of people out there who have done and gone far beyond what you see here by me. Google Custom Nerf Guns and you will see some pretty crazy and fun stuff.

Football, I was never huge fan of watching Football, although I played some in high school, I just never watched sports to much. After seeing the fun all the guys at work had last year playing Fantasy Football I decided to give it a try this year. I was really interested in making my own logo and creating a team. My friend Sarah helped come up with the name… The Crazy Apes. Here is the logo.

Note: I manipulated a donkey kong image I found online.

Ok so in the last year or so I met this incredibly beautiful vivacious young lady at a restaurant I frequent. Her name is Becky and she was graduating from high school. Becky’s mom asked me to write her a graduation letter, how could I refuse. She has kind of a nick name of Sha-Tank-Ra and has quite a story to go with it, and well I am not going to share the story or the letter, here is the envelope I created that she received the letter in.

Here is the image of the freshly painted sign for “The Laughing Wench Pub”. Wow, I wasn’t sure what it was going to look like all done. The painter did a great job and I like the look, it reminds me of a Package Label. It’s very cool to know something like this exists out there with my art on it.

My niece found an old drawing at my mothers house awhile back. She was so exited that her uncle drew the picture that she held on to it for a month and never colored on it. Which is pretty good considering she was only 4. So I decided as a neat Christmas present I would create a sketch book for her. Instead of giving her a book to sketch in, I am doing all the sketches. This will help me diversify my art a little because it will consist of more kid-like creations for my now 5 year old niece. I will also be scanning the images for my web site shortly.

Here are two separate projects I am working on and almost done with, but until I post the full images I thought I’d share a little something with you. I am going for a nice sharp, clean, and stream lined look. I have been toying with the style for some time and I really enjoy its execution, so much so, I have decided to do what I am calling “Digitally Remastering” some other works that were already complete. I am not sure how many I will be Digitally Remastering as of this moment because I would really like to focus on new ideas that have been bouncing around in my mind. More to come….