Speed Painting 56: Trump & The Last Supper

I've been following the US elections these last few months on spurts. I can't fully concentrate on them full time because of so much bullshit from either side, that it turns it into more of a burden then entertainment. Then again, I'm much more jaded when it comes to politics than most people. There was a national-level incident back in my home when I was a little kid that directly affected my dad and then my entire family, and lets just say it took more than a decade to completely get over it.

Rather than just promises I heard from the left & right (and.. those other 2), it was interesting to see how the population reacted to the entire political process. Trump whether you like or dislike him, is this enigma that has many tuning in to see what he says next. It's almost like he was a tv personality that went into politics and knows how to sell a crowd.

What I noticed which kinda creeped me out more than anything, is this huge distaste and alienation between one another or many groups. Family members no longer speaking to one another because of their political affiliations. People putting themselves in groups and pushing other groups away, sometimes without noticing, instead of all getting together and focusing on making change by putting pressure on the government and the politicians instead.

Speed Painting 41: Halo 5 Guardians

As usual during this time of the year, a couple of massive games coming out.  Even though I'm a Playstation gamer, this looked like a good opportunity to draw Halo due to the color palette and because it felt right.  I started Tomb Raider initially but wasn't feeling it.  As soon as I started making a mock up for the Halo however, I felt inspired and got some ideas.

This idea I may have come up subconsciously being inspired by the cover of Hancock a couple of years back.  The idea here is that you see through Chief's eyes what he's looking at.  One one side, it's the single player, the other side it's the multiplayer red vs blue.  Initial helmet was based off a cool Master Chief concept art someone had created, and I used different images from the game to create the other segments that are in the glass part of his helmet.  Hope you guys like it.  The OST for Halo as usual is Godlike by the way, I had to use Kazuma's work for this.

Speed Painting 40: The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead is coming out soon for season 6, so I decided to make this month's illustration about it.  I'm hoping the hype is real and comic book readers have been hyping up some of the bigger villains that are coming soon.  Hopefully that means we get to see them and it doesn't get padded with filler.

This is a simple illustration of Rick and Daryl chilling with a zombie.  All of them getting along for once instead of trying to kill each other.  Rick's beard continues to grow (that season 5 episode does not exist).  Hope you all enjoy it! 

Speed Painting 55: Star Wars Rogue One

New Star Wars speed painting.  Hope yall like it.

Speed Painting 39: Metal Gear Solid V Phantom Pain

With Metal Gear V coming out, I had to make this month's speed painting about the game.  Kojima's last Konami masterpiece.  I put some of the main characters in this piece and chose at the time the ones from the trailers.  I went on vacation for over two weeks and missed out on this game, but now I'm back and it's time to jump in and experience the greatness. 

Developing for Mobile, on Everyone's Website but Yours

I know it's not everyone ok?  Calm you normal developers that are scoffing at the idea, and rolling your eyes atop the high horse.  That insult was very unnecessary and a defensive mechanism.  I like many others have developed a website and left mobile on the to do later list.  However due to freelance and other projects I've been working on, I haven't prioritized and left it.  This is a bad look, especially if you are looking for some kind of development work and the client visits your website.  They don't know that every other website you work on is cellphone and tablet friendly.  They will look at your website and possibly you can't do it, or at least be skeptical about your capabilities.

This past year and a half in particular, I have been busier than any time in my life.  I will be coming back mid September from a 14 day vacation, and my time will free up significantly.  I will likely look to improve several other aspects of my website, in the last post listing another dumb mistake of leaving the website 720px wide.  So if you don't have the mobile version of your website, get on it.  Don't be me.  Many people use their cellphones and tablet to visit websites.  If the website looks like shit on those platforms, they will quickly move on to something else, making all your hard work of making a website fruitless.

Websites - 720px Width .. Don't Do It.

About 3-4 years ago, I did something really idiotic when making my website.  I made it 720px wide so even people using prehistoric computers wouldn't have issues once they visited my website.  I knew then that would be a small amount of people and that wouldn't last for long.  Now years later, I need to change that.  Either a full 100% width with some padding or a 1080px min width is a must.  It's going to take some time.  For the people who know they're doing something stupid but do it regardless like myself, don't be one of us.  Be better.  Don't fucking code with 720px width.  For the people who can't see it because they have such old computers, your grandma will be allright.  Code it right.