tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:48:14 +0000everydayphotosbooklistartout of proportion rantworkingdrawingdigital artpaintingMusickillerUm...commentshow tospaceNew Orleanssculpturevacationwallpaperhttp://akabrady.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)Blogger182125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-6116423387944328267Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:40:00 +00002009-04-11T02:52:06.112-06:00artdigital artThis started out as a sketch of a head. I was trying to see what I could do without any photo references, but I did end up using a reference for the shoulder, and the eye. I'm amazed at how much I've forgotten about art, and find I'm having to relearn a lot of stuff.http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2009/04/in-light-of-suns.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-8238709644275255302Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:20:00 +00002009-04-04T00:43:28.711-06:00digital artpaintingSo, here's my final entry for the Natives of the Lifeless Forest contest over at CGhub.com.Tell me what you think!P.S. In response to comments, here's a link where you can purchase a high quality print!http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2009/04/outside-den.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-3780928735813051285Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:20:00 +00002009-02-08T02:24:41.508-07:00digital artThis is obviously inspired by 3 Black, my minimalist painting, but this has a note of realism to it.Of course this has a guy in a spacesuit, and who can argue with that?http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2009/02/speres.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-7901413855742187531Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:41:00 +00002009-02-04T02:47:22.567-07:00digital artI finished this a day late for the CgHub Draw Jam, but I learned a lot by doing this.http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2009/02/hunt-final.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-8266799885071097715Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:30:00 +00002009-02-02T18:24:37.571-07:00digital artThis is one part of a three panel drawing. This is my second digital painting with the Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet. I'll post the complete painting when I'm finished with it. I was rushing to enter this in a contest at CGHub.com and didn't have time to finish the other two parts.http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2009/02/hunt-partial.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-979314887005114341Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:29:00 +00002009-01-27T12:33:40.380-07:00digital artworkingThis is a quick digital painting I did with my new Wacom tablet. Right now I'm still trying to get a feel for it, but I'm getting more comfortable all the time.I always get stuck on names. Anyone have a suggestion for it?http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-digital-painting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-8144363930980574828Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:45:00 +00002009-01-27T09:56:01.431-07:00everydayI thought everyone knew about the Coraline Movie coming out February 6th, but then I mentioned it to my mom and she was like "What's Coraline?".It's a movie based on Neil Gaiman's book of the same name. It's a "children's" book, but think of it more along the lines of children's/adult book, since adults will definitely get a kick out of it. A girl, Coraline, and her parents, move to a large househttp://akabrady.blogspot.com/2009/01/coraline-movie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-5560255981089621516Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:22:00 +00002009-01-27T00:28:14.410-07:00drawingworkingI rephotographed the drawing of Ezee, the main character from my new book. It looks better than the previous post, but it's still not as good as the original.One of these days I will master the art of photographing art.http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2009/01/drawing-of-ezee-part-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-918308003011647513Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:31:00 +00002009-01-26T00:40:12.959-07:00drawingworkingI took a break from the rewrite of my last book and decided to do NaNoWriMo in February, where you try to write a novel in one month. That didn't turn out so well since the new book I started demanded that I do research and is more complicated than I first thought.So, since then I've been trying to figure out the new book, which has a working title of Mule, and I got the urge to draw Ezee, the http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2009/01/drawing-of-main-character-for-my-new.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-7045559800515056570Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:05:00 +00002009-01-26T01:11:10.239-07:00New OrleansphotosvacationI'm Posting this a few days late, but over the last weekend I went to New Orleans to visit my brother and his family. We visited some cemeteries looking for Marie Laveau's resting place, and toured Bourbon street, and then went to Gulf Port Mississippi, to see the Gulf of Mexico.We saw some Voodoo graves where people had made offerings and performed a ritual that included drawing three X's on thehttp://akabrady.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-orleans-trip.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-5508459062728597083Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:09:00 +00002009-01-20T10:26:53.317-07:00booklistChasm City by Alastair Reynolds is a book set in a future where humanity has already moved to the stars. Tanner Mirabel, is an ex-soldier and now security specialist for a notorious crime boss on a planet called Sky's edge.But as the book starts off, the boss is dead and Tanner is following the person who did it to get revenge. But the person he is following is leaving Sky's Edge to another http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2009/01/chasm-city.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-1081006136473375133Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:36:00 +00002009-01-27T12:36:56.602-07:00digital artdrawingFor Christmas I got a Bamboo Fun pen tablet by Wacom. I've been holding off on using it because I'm trying to finish a traditional pencil drawing of the main character from my new book. (Which I will start writing as soon as I finish the rewrite on my last book. Let's cross our fingers for the end of February.)But also, because I'm not sure about it. I'm so used to traditional techniques, and thehttp://akabrady.blogspot.com/2009/01/bamboo-fun-drawing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-3472013451682551217Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:55:00 +00002009-01-09T19:07:33.483-07:00booklistAfter being urged for years by my brother to read the Dark Tower series by Stephen King, I finally read the gunslinger about 6 months ago. And now I just read the second book in the series, The Drawing of the Three.I can't say I'm a big fan of Stephen King, but I have read a few of his books and stories, and of course, seen the movies. Certain things about the way he writes bug me, and certain http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2009/01/drawing-of-three.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-3631942356409742327Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:03:00 +00002008-12-12T02:08:27.800-07:00booklistThis is the second book in a trilogy by John Scalzi. He one of those writers that doesn't let his personal views in the real world overtake the story. The story is number one.And this leads to books that are entertaining, and fun!This book isn't a typical sequel, as the main character doesn't appear in Old Man's War, but don't let that stop you. Think of this more along the lines of a http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2008/12/ghost-brigades.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-4561482809471404659Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:06:00 +00002008-11-28T20:07:44.547-07:00booklistI just bought Helix by Eric Brown, today based on the description on the back of the book.This was going to be about travel through space, and a way to survive a ship malfunction in the middle of nowhere, near a strange spiral formation of planets, with some alien encounters along the way.Or so it led me to believe.On the book it talks about how "great" Eric Brown is, and I went against my http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2008/11/helix-avoided.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-6562458998298628348Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:19:00 +00002008-11-26T20:20:13.619-07:00booklistI read this like 2 weeks ago, maybe finished it about the 3rd or 4th. Anyway it's a really good book. Go read it.http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2008/11/anansi-boys.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-7013787357656452282Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:42:00 +00002008-11-02T21:57:46.954-07:00workingThis year I've decided to do NaNoWriMo. You might ask what that is, and technically it stands for National Novel Writing Month, but the real definition is How To Drive Yourself Crazy For 30 Days.The goal is to write 50,000 words in one month. That breaks down to about 1600 words a day. So far this is day two and I've barely written over a thousand.Yes, I'm behind.No, I'm not going to just write http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2008/11/nanowrimo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-1275637773622552432Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:45:00 +00002008-10-28T01:23:17.528-06:00booklistThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. La Guin is a book with a political agenda straight out of the era it was conceived in, but she does manage to weave her ideas into the framework of a story, so that in the end you can forgive her, or at least appreciate her position, despite a naivete that seems to have originated inside a 1960's commune.Her version of an anarchist society, if it were a character, http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2008/10/dispossessed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-6478511041798416796Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:18:00 +00002008-10-05T10:20:57.544-06:00everydayBlanket statements are usually as stupid as the person who makes them.Stupidity is a specific and varied quality.Intelligence in one area does not equate to intelligence in all areas.http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-think-i-think-too-much-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-4278196500050711887Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:17:00 +00002008-09-25T21:18:11.836-06:00booklistFinished a couple days ago.http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2008/09/guerrilla-marketing-for-internet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-549384606951103419Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:22:00 +00002008-09-14T11:24:07.854-06:00booklistFinished Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, who is becoming one of my favorite authors. He doesn't let his political views get in the way of telling a good yarn.http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2008/09/neverwhere.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-4749129455698967364Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:19:00 +00002008-09-14T11:24:26.454-06:00booklistYeah I know I said I wouldn't read anymore of this guy's books, but it was free. Free, I tell you!Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder.http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2008/09/sun-of-suns.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-1046384056047596303Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:35:00 +00002008-09-05T22:22:17.907-06:00booklistFinished reading Spin by Charles Robert Wilson.While I enjoyed it, when I read books like this, it always puts me in a strange state of mind. You have this feeling that behind the story, this is actually a subtle piece of proselytization. The author seems so sure of his view of the universe, it's like reading his personal version of a bible or manifesto.I wonder how authors like him, and others, http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2008/09/spin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-1098563509854443384Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:51:00 +00002008-09-01T22:55:24.407-06:00booklistI got Old Man's War by John Scalzi free from Tor. com a while back when they were just launching their site, and actually read his short story on their website first. It made me appreciate his writing and I'm glad I read this book. It's like a faster more accessible version of Forever War by Joe Haldemon, with some good characterization thrown in. If I hadn't gotten if for free I would have paid http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2008/09/old-mans-war.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911088041386983029.post-5929912180906593757Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:47:00 +00002008-09-01T23:00:14.469-06:00booklistI read Playing for Keeps by Mur lafferty, which you can download for free at her website. It's a funny take on people who aren't quite super enough to be super heroes, but somehow that doesn't stop them from saving the day. There are some great lines in there, but I won't spoil the fun. Go read it!http://akabrady.blogspot.com/2008/08/playing-for-keeps.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (a.k.a. Brady)0