Saturday Update!

Hello and thanks for stopping by.

Well I am back in full swing of doing art, and I am loving it.  Strait Arrow Graphix is a side business for me, but I love it.  I have picked up quite a few more commisions and am excited about the new projects.  I can't talk about all of them yet, but I am excited all the same.

I finally am back to Testimony of Palidos and have worked hard to get some flat colors done, now to work on the full rendering.  I will give you a sneak peak though of what is coming since you have not gotten to see the art for it in a while.  These are just the flat colors, the cool shading and effects are yet to be finished.  I had a blast with the Minotaurs

Don't forget to vote for out comic.  The higher we are on the list the more exposure we get.


Well I have more work to do, so I gotta go

James the Imaginator

MId Week Update...give or take a day

So Yesterday was a great art day for me.  I got to crank out art.  Well work on it anyways.  It is sometimes a re learning period as I was working on my web comic.  I am progressing though.  I am not sure when I will have the next part of Testimony of Palidos up, but I did put up a small piece of art to just get something up on the web comic site.  I also worked on layouts for some other art projects I have brewing here too.  So I spent some time down in the studio, and some time on the computer. I finished up my evening with working on some Testimony of Palidos art cards.

So go check out my comic, and check out the changes I have made and other art I have done on Deviant art!

Testimony of Palidos Web Comic

James's Online Gallery

Also the Amazing Linda has been working on a Logo design.  We will share that when it is complete.  She has been doing some cool graphic design stuff for flyers, logos, and other things.  I hope to get here stuff up in our gallery soon too.

James at Strait Arrow Graphix

And Vote for our Comic.

Hello All

Well The computer is up and running.  I worked up a practice piece I will share below.  It is my plan to be back to full art art now.  Things will be slow for my comic but it will be coming.  I have other art that needs done too, so be patient and enjoy.

Feel free to leave comments or drop me an email

James the Imaginator

NEW HARD Drive and Other News!

Holy Cow it has been too long since I have posted.  So it is time for a little post here.

Well First I finally have a new hard drive.  I have it installed, but now have to put in all the software.  So soon I will be able to be back to doing some of the digital stuff I do.  Though we have kept up with some design work with the laptops.

So what have we been doing.  Well I did have to take a break from posting my comic.  On top of working another day job to pay the bills at home, I run a martial arts dojo, and for a season I had some other responsibilities at my church that I had to take care of.  Yet the art had to keep going.  I have done some small art cards, and designed some things for a couple church organizations.  Linda has done more than I with the design work, but that is where she excels where I excel at the illustration work.

So with things changing again I am back at the illustration work, and plan to work on my comic work again.  I am still working on the illustrations for VisionLand Comics.  I am also working out an agreement for a martial arts organization to do some classic comic style illustrations for them.  All this has me pretty excited.  Its a good time to be an illustrator, well this one anyways.

Well that is it for now.  Check back later.

James the Imaginator at Strait Arrow Graphix

Computer Problems...uuuuggghh

So I finished the inks on the next piece for Testimony of Palidos.  I scanned it in, and pieced it together.  Cleaned it up.  Then I ate dinner came back checked email, and tried to get back into photoshop to color the comic, and....my computer crashed....it crashed bad.  If I cannot get the data off my hard drive i may have lost a lot of work and files I need.  Sooooooo.  i need to get the graphix machine fixed. And that means I need to save up to get it.

This will not get me down though.  I still have all the inked art, and can continue to ink and work, I just cant color, letter, and get the old files if i can. ....

Thank you all for your continued support.  Gotta have a black belt attitude to keep a postive one.  Keep moving forward, and roll with the punches.

I have a lot of things going on at the Church today and I think we are going to Deck the Halls, or House tonight,

Maybe I will try to find a way to let you see the progress yet this weekend.

James the down but not out imaginator

Happy Thanks Giving, update

Hello all you cool people who have stopped by.

I had an amazing Thanks Giving Yesterday, and today was been good as well.  We sure have a lot to be thankful for.

So what have I been up too?  Well I have been a busy beaver.  I wish it all was art, but that is not the case.  As you all know I helped my Dad move, and with that move I took on some more responsibilities at my church.  I have been BUSY with those responsibilities.  They are worth it though.

I have still been working on Testimony of Palidos, though on a slower pace right now.  Having a day off let me get the inks finished for some more art to post, as soon as I get it colored.  Looking forward to moving along with this.  I have some fun stuff planned.  Action, adventure, dragons, magic, and did I mention dragons.  Anyone who really knows me knows I love dragons.

I have also slowly been working on some art for the Angeldreams comics for Visionland studios.  That also has been  fun as well.

Trying to balance this all out with all my other responsibilities can be a challenge  but so worth it.  For those who do not know, I am a husband, father of four, a Sensei ( Martial Arts Instructor) and super involved with my Church.... and I hold a full time job on top of that.  Just so you all know.   So the art is a passion that keeps me sane.

I hope to have some art up today or tomorrow  but we will just have to wait and see.

James the imaginator.

Dwarves

I wasn't able to get the next page done for "Testimony of Palidos" but I did get a page done and posted on Dwarves. Just so you can understand them a little better.

Testimony of Palidos

Hope you enjoy.

And don't forget to take a moment and vote for us. 

Vote Here

Thanks
James