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Meeting Notes 78

2008-04-18T11:15:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the final batch of Meeting Notes from Vol. 13. These hail from November of last year.

There will most likely be a gap between these and the start of Vol. 14 as 14 is still being filled and I'll need to take it home to do some scanning. And as we will be in San Francisco this weekend I won't get a chance till next weekend.

Meeting Notes 77

2008-04-11T08:00:00.000-07:00

Sorry for last weeks absence, but I was attending Photoshop World in Orlando, FL (which was awesome).

This weeks meeting notes are a batch of semi-disturbing doodlings from October of last year.

Meeting Notes 76

2008-03-28T07:56:00.000-07:00

I apologize for missing last week. We had the day off for Good Friday and we were down in Portland taking care of wedding business.

So please enjoy this weeks Meeting Notes from October of last year.

Meeting Notes 75

2008-03-14T09:54:00.000-07:00

Yet more meeting notes. Not the best bunch of the lot, but there it is.

Meeting Notes 74

2008-03-08T08:36:00.000-08:00

Sorry this is a day late, but I've had a cold for the last few days and forgot to put it up yesterday.

Meeting Notes 73

2008-02-29T08:30:00.000-08:00

Another batch of meeting notes goodness, including a space monkey! And a Grendel dunny. I really want a Grendel dunny.

In fact, I want a whole line of comic book themed dunnys. Kid Robot get on that quick.

Meeting Notes 72

2008-02-22T07:50:00.000-08:00

Enjoy this weeks meeting notes. All hailing from October of 07.

Be sure to look for the robot turtles.

Meeting Notes 71

2008-02-15T09:29:00.000-08:00

More meeting notes from September of last year, including the land of the big stone heads and a scary clown.

Meeting Notes 70

2008-02-08T08:20:00.000-08:00

Todays Meeting Notes hail from September of last year and include more characters and a few Stone Head guys thrown in for good measure. Enjoy.

Meeting Notes 69

2008-02-01T09:50:00.000-08:00

I apologize for the absence of meeting notes last week but I was in sunny Mexico. Yes we had a great time, check aTravelogue.com for pictures (soon I hope).

This week is an odd mix of little characters and a bondage Dunny (no, I don't know why). Enjoy.

Meeting Notes 68

2008-01-18T08:24:00.000-08:00

I said there'd be more Stone Head guys, and here they are.

Next wee there will be no Meeting Notes as we are leaving for Mexico (yay) tomorrow and will not be back until the 27th. Check back on February 1st for the next installment.

Meeting Notes 67

2008-01-11T08:00:00.000-08:00

I apologize for the overly long delay between meeting notes, I'll try not to let it happen again. I've got the entirety of Volume 13 scanned and formatted so it should be awhile before I run out again.

This week we start of with some random doodles and a Grendel Dunny, and then move straight into the Stone Heads guys. We shall be seeing more of them in the weeks to come.

Meeting Notes 66

2007-12-07T08:46:00.000-08:00

Todays Meeting Notes I'm going to do something a little different. First I'm going to give you the thumbnails and sketches I did for an illustration to accompany a story about active gaming (i.e. Wii and the like), then I'll show you the finished product.

These are the original sketches I did. The last one is the one I ended up going with.

I blew it up on the copier and inked it, then scanned it in:

I then went back in and did a little clean up (shortened the guys arm, fixed the woman's mouth, etc.).

And finally I colored it in Photoshop.

And bob's your uncle.

Meeting Notes 65

2007-11-30T10:00:00.000-08:00

Hello and welcome to Meeting Notes Volume 13. Overall I'm pretty pleased with this volume, I think there is some nice stuff in here along with a lot of fun characters.

This volume encompasses August to early November of 07 and is fairly representative of what you will get in the coming weeks, i.e. buildings and characters. Hope you like them.

Meeting Notes 64

2007-11-23T08:02:00.000-08:00

The final meeting notes of Volume 12 come from August of 07, and are, on the whole, an odd lot. First is a muscle bound bunny, then a cliff house man thingy, and finally a giant man with cubes growing out of his face. Enjoy.

Meeting Notes 63

2007-11-16T13:28:00.000-08:00

I apologize for the extended absence of meeting notes, but I hadn't gotten around to scanning in a batch yet. This is the penultimate post for Volume 12, and then we'll start in on 13 which is all ready complete and half scanned in. I just started filling Volume 14 on Wednesday and hopefully someday we'll catch up to that.

Todays batch is from July of 07 and has the theme of random people. Enjoy!

Pen Junkie, Part 9: Pilot Prera

2007-10-26T09:15:00.000-07:00

Since I haven't yet gotten around to scanning more meeting notes I'm posting this pen review a wee bit prematurely (because I haven't gotten around to taking pictures of it yet). Enjoy the review and I'll update with photos when I've taken them (and will most likely delete this paragraph).

My never ending quest for the perfect pen has led me mainly to pens of Asian decent, as I believe I've mentioned before. And I've found some pretty good ones on offer, but with problems that prevent me from declaring them perfect. Mostly because they don't allow cartridges and since I do most of my heavy writing while traveling and carrying an ink bottle is both inconvenient and not allowed (on planes) I was forced to look elsewhere.

Recently I've set my sights on Pilot, trying a few different models, the FP-50R (reviewed here), the Knight (not yet reviewed), and most recently, the Pilot Prera.

The Prera is a relatively inexpensive pen not yet widely available in the US (I got mine from JPens.com for $36). It is available in a variety of colors and has a clean, functional compact design.

It comes equipped with a fine nib, which translates as extra fine in comparison to most Western nibs. It writes smooth fine line unlike the similar nib on the FP-50R. It takes proprietary Pilot cartridges (see earlier rant), and a Pilot converter. I originally filled it with Mont Blanc's English Racing Green (still one of my favorite colors) and now have it filled with a blue Pilot cartridge (which I do not care for at all, way too washed out).

The pen body is made from plastic so it's a pretty light weight pen. With the cap unposted it's a hair bit on the short side for my taste, so I generally post when I'm using it.

Over all I'm pretty happy with this pen, it works perfectly with a Molsekine as there is no bleed through on the thin paper.

Meeting Notes 62

2007-10-12T08:32:00.000-07:00

More meeting notes from July of this year. We are approaching the end of Meeting Notes Volume 12, at least the end of what I have scanned in. I'll have to do more this weekend. Nothing too exciting here, but have a look anyway.

Meeting Notes 61

2007-10-05T08:01:00.000-07:00

Today we have meeting notes from July of this year. My favorite of the bunch is the ape looking guy on the last page.

Enjoy!

Meeting Notes 60

2007-09-28T08:49:00.000-07:00

A bunch more monster sketches and then some random Ratatouille inspired sketches. These are from June and July of this year.

Meeting Notes 59

2007-09-24T07:50:00.000-07:00

I just realized I completely forgot to post meeting notes on Friday, so I guess we'll have two this week.

The first couple pages feature random people and a pig man, and the last two pages are sketches of a monster that used to live in the disused family room of the first house we lived in in Dallas. There will be more of him later.

Meeting Notes 58

2007-09-14T09:53:00.000-07:00

Today I take you way back to June of 07. It was a turbulent time for our young country, Irene and I had just returned from France, Summer was about to begin, and the domestication of the dog continued unabated.*

So with all that in mind, please enjoy to days meeting notes.

*Simpson's reference

Meeting Notes 57

2007-09-07T13:28:00.000-07:00

Hailing from May and June of this year, today's meeting notes encompass the time right before and right after our trip to France. You might see a little of that influence in the sketches. Or you might not.

Meeting Notes 56

2007-08-31T10:12:00.000-07:00

Today's meeting notes hail from May of this year and consist mostly of people with interesting faces. Enjoy.

Meeting Notes 55

2007-08-24T08:22:00.000-07:00

I apologize for the absence of meeting notes last week . I had plenty scanned, but I hadn't gotten around to cleaning them up and uploading them to my server. That shouldn't be a problem for a while as I've got a couple of months worth of posts ready to go.

Enough of that. On to this weeks meeting notes. These are from May of this year. The first two aren't technically meeting notes, they are actually sketches done for an illustration that appeared in the Canada edition of the magazine. The second two are genuine meeting notes, done in a meeting