:: Monday, July 14, 2003 ::

What is up with all of the entries about professing love? This one is serious, everybody. I'm just going to cut straight to the chase, and present to you all, CAMEL!!!


Where to begin. Last week I asked Megan to draw me a picture. The instructions were simple: Draw a camel with two humps, with a parrot on the first hump and a machine gun turret on the second one that is shooting out a bawls bottle. The camel and the parrot need to have matching eye patches, and instead of a tail, the camel needs to have a fan like the ones on the back of those boats in the florida everglades. Simple, right? Well she doodled this cool picture, and the idea stuck with me. I went over to ryan's last night, and asked him to draw the same thing with the same instructions, just to see his artistic representation of this camel since he hadn't seen the first. It was an awesome sketch, and we scanned it and began pondering over this thing in photoshop. That was around 12:30 last night. We stayed up with Ryan H helping him work some extreme photoshop magic on this camel, and by the time it was pretty much done, it was going on 7 am. That's right, over 6 1/2 hours were spent making this the best damn crazy camel ever. This thing has everything, from incredibly precise inking to intensely perfect shadows to a custom-built cage for the everglades fan and beautiful, awesome smoke created using a cloud texture and creative use of the liquify filter. Call me crazy, but this thing belongs in the smithsonian or something. Maybe some famous art hall in Paris or London, I dunno. So basically, if you can't tell, I'm incredibly proud and intrigued by this camel, and want you all to appreciate all the time we wasted on it. Sure we could have made something a little more.....realistic. But where's the fun in that?

:: Floydthebarber 7/14/2003 10:13:00 PM [+] ::
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