Below are the 9 most recent journal entries recorded in jimmytrout's LiveJournal:

Monday, April 14th, 2008
4:50 pm	Some ideas for t-shirts. What do you think? I've been playing around, trying to design a t-shirt or two to take to Stumptown. What do you all think of these designs? Which do you like best, if any. If you don't like any of them, I'll get back to work! :) Thanks for your feedback! Jeff (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
8:27 pm	Altoids Paintbox I've been talking about a watercolor case (& small palette space) I made out of an Altoids tin and some Sculpey clay. Basically you press the clay in to the tin, smooth it out, dig out some wells where the paint will go, and then bake it for half an hour or so. Then I sprayed it white and glazed with Sculpey glossy glaze. After it's all dry you squeeze high quality water color from a tube into the wells and let it dry (you want to do it in three or four small layers, so that it dries evenly and doesn't crack). I had six wells ... a yellow, a green, two blues (I was going to be kayaking on the Sea of Cortez ... I wanted some options for water), a red and a burnt umber. A few good colors and you can mix almost anything, right? Here it it: I'll post the paintings I did when I get them scanned. :) Cheers, Jeff (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
8:14 pm	I started drawing this comic at 6:00 Wednesday morning, drew for good portions of the day, went to bed at 4:00AM and woke up at 7:00 Thursday morning. I worked on it until 10:00 when I had to get ready to go teach. I got home at 3:40 and managed to hammer out 4 super super rough last pages, scan everything, lay it out and print out 20 copies by 7:00PM. Of course I laid it out wrong so the middle pages in the comic were out of order, and I didn't have a cover. We'll just say this: mistakes were made. :) ( Read the rest behind the cut! ) Cheers, Jeff (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 5th, 2007
11:45 am	Hi everyone!  Great Sketch Crawl yesterday! Four of us participated: me, Jason, Robert, and my friend Nathan (who was actually poetry-crawlin'). We went from 2:00-6:00 and then ate and chatted for a while at the Desert Edge. Anyways, it was amazingly fun and the weather was perfect for it: 60°F and sunny .  We started inLiberty Park and worked our way around there for about 2 hours. Then we walked down to this weird little sculpture garden — Gilgal Park — about half a mile away. We ended up at Trolley Square. It was way, way fun. Thanks everyone who participated! I've created a Salt Lake page on the official Sketch Crawl forum ... if you have work, scan it in and throw it up there: http://www.sketchcrawl.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9651#9651 Cheers, Jeff (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
7:15 pm	Sketches A couple more sketchbook pages from about a month ago: From an Anthropologie catalog: Cheers, Jeff (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, August 31st, 2007
10:00 am	An exercise from last week at the RoCo Jason and I, last Thursday, eventually got around to sketching a bit, and we decided to experiment with medium.  Jason had just received his new Pentel Pocket Brush Pen (best thing ever, no joke), and so we drew the cups in front of us, with regular pen and brush pen.    (Comment on this)
9:34 am	Sketches, 8/17-24 Some more sketches from last week.  I'm really digging the 10-minutes-every-day thing!  I can always find that much time somewhere in my day.  A lot of the time it's become quite a bit more than 10 minutes, but even if it doesn't, I feel like I'm getting something.  It's like practicing piano: I imagine 10 minutes every day is better than 2 hours once a week.  One keeps the mus-kles stretched. Danny Gregory makes the same point in [i]The Creative License[/i] (a book well worth reading if you're just developing your commitment to sketching).  8/18 8/24 8/17 8/22 (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
7:01 pm	Sketches, 8/15-16 A couple more pages.  I managed to draw 10 minutes each and every day this last week.  Let's see if I can keep it up. Some of the sketches didn't scan properly so they're not included. Mostly they're more drawings of my cat. He never sits still! _____________________________________________ (Comment on this)
Monday, August 20th, 2007
1:27 pm	First Post! Some sketches. I'm posting for the first time here.  I've never been much for blogging, but I'm finding I really like people's art blogs, so that's how I plan to set this up. A place where I can throw up sketches and comic pages and keep myself moving forward. This first post is going to be a bit long because it's a bit of a sketch dump. Two Thursdays ago, Jason and I decided to sketch at least 10 mins. every day. You can draw more than that, but a minimum of 10 minutes was the challenge. Even if you spend 8 hours working on your comic, you need to find 10 mins. for sketching. I think it's like playing scales if you're a musician, or stretching if you're a runner. It's not the same muscles as comic-drawing, so even if you are doing that, sketching will be beneficial. Or at least that's my opinion. So here are sketches from Thursday on. We went camping last weekend with friends, so I tried to pull out my sketchbook whenever I could. p.s. Right now I'm having a curious problem: I have too many sketchbooks! I tend to buy sketchbooks all the time, especially Moleskines, which are the best, most seductive sketch/writing books ever. So I have about half-a-dozen books or more started, and few finished. But this means that there is stuff from every era in all different books. I'm going to try to finish out one book first, then move to the next, then to the next until I've finished all the ones I have, rather than grabbing whichever comes first to hand. I told Jason that I was going to try to draw my new cat — Bear — as much as possible: 8/9/07 8/10/07 8/11/07 _____________________________________________ 8/12/07 _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ That's it for now!  Keep drawing! Cheers, Jeff (2 Comments |Comment on this)