Odosketch Rhinoceros

Please be patient while the sketch video loads ... apologies if the copy is hard to read in your browser, I think the video code is interfering with the text code.

I saw this little Flash program on a couple of blogs that I check in on often: Joe Bluhm and Jason Seiler and was inspired to do a little sketch of my own in this Web based program. It's fun, fast, and user-friendly; you're given a limited palette of thick and thin colored brushes to work with that allow you to create quickly, and in a way that looks good no matter what you draw. I started a little high on the "page," but that's the fun of these quick sketches ... who cares if it's not perfect? Also, I didn't have to do anything special to record the drawing, that's done automatically.

Personally I liked sticking to a very limited palette, but the colors are chosen in a way that it's hard to pick a bad combination.

Again, this is a lot of fun and hopefully encourages everyone to do a little sketching.

Bird Sketch

This is just a little drawing I did from a Google image on my laptop ... got a little lazy with the stick it's sitting on.

Font Capture

Well this was really cool, and took about 10 minutes to do. By clicking here you can visit a Web page that allows you (if you have a printer and scanner) to create a font based on your own handwriting. The directions are on their site, but you really only have to print out a template, fill it in with your own writing, scan it, load it, and bang ... new font! It saves a .ttf file format which works great for Adobe products, I haven't been able to make it work with any Microsoft products, such as Word though, but I really don't have any reason to try to do that.

A+ to this site, the possibilities of font creation are really endless!

Volunteer Newsletter

This newsletter, News from A to V (Auxiliary to Volunteers) is directed at the aforementioned audience for St. John's Mercy Medical Center. I believe that the number is between 850 - 1000 volunteers, all who contribute countless hours of good work to the Medical Center. Rags like this are typically low-budget and low-priority pieces, but we found that we could keep printing costs down due to new printing systems and give the Volunteers a nice piece that's well-deserved to showcase their accomplishments and service.

Blood Donor Services Brochure

This three-panel brochure featured the story of a young boy named Seth who survived Leukemia thanks to blood donations. The focus was on an appeal from a real story meant to motivate the reader to donate blood.