Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Home Sweet Home

My favorite project, my Home Sweet Home... is a place I started with my friend Dadster called Linux Graphics Users
We wanted to create a place for artists / designers, where they could just relax and share and learn from one another, far away from the restraints of a distro-centric environment. A place where we could just kinda hang-out and talk about the various graphics software within the Linux platform.

We are getting ready to enter into our 2d year (official) and also getting ready to begin discussing ways to really dress up our community/forum, and attract new members. We are all taking some time to put some ideas together, individually... and after the Easter holiday, will have a meeting to discuss those ideas, and find the best ways to go about making them a reality.
We are blessed with a really great member base at LGU. And we are hoping to put some nice ideas into play which will make the site more attractive to new and prospective members.

This year... the 3 old fools (err, I mean wise men) That being the admins Dadster, Jaws, and myself decided to split the cost of hosting for our 2d year... and just as long as no one touches my crayons, I'm good with it (hehe)

But, this is my public way of saying "Thank You" to everyone involved with LGU... because a person just could not ask for a better staff, or a better group of members than we have there.
I have not been as involved as I wanted to be over the last year, due to personal matters... but this is about to change greatly. But, Dadster and Jaws... and everyone else, have been keeping things running pretty smooth and that is a really nice feeling.

So, if you have ever wanted to create your own wallpaper, or anything graphics related, using any of the wonderful graphics software available under Linux (which beats any commercial software IMO) swing on by, we'd be glad to have ya... And don't let the little things like "But I have no talent.." stop you. This is a group of some of the most laid-back, nicest people you could ever run into, and we will help you along the way...
I am the type who feels that "everyone" has talent. There are so many different levels and views to art that it has to be considered beautiful in the eyes of the beholder... and even if you are the only one beholdin'... who cares, as long as it is beautiful to you, and you feel good that you made it yourself.

Hope to see ya soon

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Another rough idea for Unity Logo


Yet another rough idea I had on the Logo for Unity Linux. Combining the "U" & the "L" into one, unified character. Not sure as to the integrity of this design... but I like to just get the ideas out into a visual form when they come to mind, otherwise they get lost in the swill.