Michael R. Barrick's blog
Tue, 2025/05/20 - 2:26pm

Flirting with mimesis, trying not to overstep. Critical content is on the other side of the dancefloor, wondering WTF is wrong with me
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Sat, 2025/05/17 - 10:28pm
Sun, 2025/05/11 - 10:41pm

Looking a little more human. It'll be a few more layers like this before he'll quite have to glow I'm going for. And of course I am completely improvising the colour.
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Sat, 2025/05/10 - 11:29am

I'm reasonably happy with it at this point. As with some previous ones, that the reference photo was taken with multiple light sources is messing with my head a bit.
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Fri, 2025/05/09 - 8:28pm

Vidma would like to know if you have been eating properly and getting enough sleep.
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Thu, 2025/05/08 - 9:41am

Another few minutes. Some this morning, some last night. I'm probably going curse it by saying so, but I haven't had a "That was a huge mistake" moment—yet.
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Wed, 2025/05/07 - 11:31am

This morning's stabs. A couple of the lessons I struggle with are not to get too mimetic too early and not to detract from the focus with easy detail.
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Tue, 2025/05/06 - 7:58pm

When this guy first pulled out in front of me my first reaction to racing stripes on a Toyota Echo was, "Love it. Dream big." The more I looked at them the simultaneously worse and better they got. Also, "Duct Tape Racing Stripes" would be a great band name.
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Tue, 2025/05/06 - 9:41am

Today's stabs. In other news, Jeebus H. Farnsworth the music on CBC FM is garbage this morning.
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