This is it! My very first Corel Painter creation. I’ve decided to start off with a portrait of the Blood Queen, from my Zombie Commandos From Hell! comic (www.zombiecommandos.com). What is different from Photoshop is that this features a full range of traditional painting emulation tools. This is just the beginning, I plan on becoming much better at this, so please don’t judge this first attempt too harshly ;)

Well Summer is finally here, I wore my bermuda shorts for the first time this year this past weekend. The temperature shot up to 30°C and its incredibly humid around Montreal when it gets hot. Good thing I keep a shaved head!
I’m close to finishing one of my website gigs which has taken up so much of my time the last two months but I have another one coming up which I hope to wrap up by mid July. I really don’t want to take on anymore gigs this summer, as I’d like to concentrate on learning to paint in Corel Painter this summer, and get back to my Zombie Commandos comic. I hate the feeling I get when I don’t draw often enough, and I have to resist the temptation of revamping my websites again.
I see a lot of people are checking out my work but not many are leaving me any feedback, so come on! Let me know what you think… Feedback is my fuel, as with every other artist :)

Here’s my belated review of my evening at the Kinetik Festival in Montreal. In all honesty, I can only account for the Saturday Night events as I did not attend the other days. I attended Phase 3: Noise.

 
I just completed this flyer for an animation studio looking for musicians for a brainstorm session.

You will probably have noticed, if you’ve been familiar with this website for a while, that this latest incarnation of Raisinlove.com (aka v.08) has been much more experimental than the previous versions. While I’ve been using Wordpress as my basic platform since I first included a news section back in 2001 (the blog software was then called B2), this is the first time I’ve used the blog itself to present my portfolio.
Taking advantage of the patchwork layout, I’ve been including various Worpress plugins, such as using my Flickr account to cross-host and display my artwork and Twitter to act as a mini-blog for actual up-to-the-minute updates.
I’ve also been experimenting with various social networks such as Myspace, Facebook and Deviantart, along with a few others I don’t keep track of as much as the others.
So my latest find has been playlist.com. You’ll see in the sidebar that I’ve already added a music player which uses this service. I’ll be adding tracks to it on a regular basis hopefully, If I don’t get bored of it too quickly that is !

A nice photo montage my photographer buddy Simon Duhamel shot a while ago. I’m there in the upper right…and the lower left (or at least my legs are) Click on the photo for a detailed view…

Ok so the warm season is just around the corner and like every year, I’m full of ideas!
As usual, I have taken on too many commitments to work on just my own work and I don’t dedicate as much time to these as I used to. However, here’s my list of things to do and things I want to do. This is mostly just a reminder for myself but this also gives you an idea of how my time is filled when I’m not working at the office or spending time with my girl.

TO DO

• Finish website gigs. Ongoing and time consuming so I just cannot take on anymore until next winter.
• Finish tattoo designs for friends. Shouldn’t take that long but still must find the time.
• Finish Zombie Commandos From Hell! current episode. AAAARRRGGG!!!
• Publish Zombie Commandos From Hell! Episode 5 online as a prequel to the current online Episode 6.

PROJECTS

• Futuristic comic with Steve Murphy (LOTS of ideas brewing for this right now!)
• Eventual epic sci-fi book with my friend Inkorporat (project so massive it’s intimidating unfortunately)
• Music videos, now that I’m having fun experimenting with Adobe After Effects.
• Learning to truly paint with my Wacom tablet and Painter X + Photoshop

“Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals,” said Turner, 69. “Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed state — like Somalia or Sudan — and living conditions will be intolerable.”
One way to combat global warming, Turner said, is to stabilize the population.
“We’re too many people; that’s why we have global warming,” he said. “Too many people are using too much stuff.”"
- ACJ.com