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This morning I posted a new drawing to Etsy, a Celtic style cross. I really enjoy doodling Celtic crosses, and decided it was time I did a few for the store. I took a lot of pictures of carved stone crosses in graveyards all over Ireland when my family went over in 1993. That was an amazing trip. I plan to draw more, and hopefully the future designs will be more intricate.
Click here or on the image to the left to see the whole image in my Etsy store.
As always thank you for stopping by and encouraging an artist in your midst. --Ry
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Last week in Sunday School we discussed forgiveness.
Romans 12:14-16 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn those who mourn. 16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.
Andy (teacher of the day) and Chip (Chip Ingram, the speaker on our DVD curriculum) talked about forgiveness being ongoing, not just a momentary thing. He said that you choose to forgive, that's the first step. Then you live out the rest of forgiveness by praying for the person that wronged you, and then being joyful when good things happen to them (live in harmony).
As there is quite a bit about it in the news lately I mentioned that I think I would have serious trouble forgiving someone who tortured and/or murdered my children because we are Christian. Forgiveness is one thing when you're sitting at your desk as a concept, it's a whole other thing out there in the world where you have to live it.
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Hello everyone! As of last week both of the books I have written and illustrated The Searcher, and the exciting sequel The Daydreamer are available to purchase on CreateSpace (The Searcher and The Daydreamer), and also on Amazon(just search for my name: Ryan Loghry)! I've been working on these titles literally for years now. The Searcher started out as random sketches of goofy characters done while riding the bus back and forth to work way back in 2004. Thanks to Amazon, and their print on demand business CreateSpace authors and illustrators like me can finally take our products directly to the market place. If you can, please order through CreateSpace, the royalties I receive are SIGNIFICANTLY higher if you order my books there (don't ask me why, Amazon owns both websites). I'd like to offer a special thanks to my wife Angela for helping me achieve my dreams. I really don't know what I'd do if I didn't have this creative outlet. Once again thank you for stopping by. -- Ryan
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Hello all! The new store has been pretty successful in it's first two weeks. I've had to hustle to keep drawings on the virtual shelves. I've posted three new drawings, and here is a link to them: The Searcher's World Etsy store. An ironic turtle, adventuresome tree pirates, and a Halloween trick or treaters drawing. I hope you enjoy them, and as always thanks for stopping by.
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Hello everyone. I have opened an Etsy shop in order to raise funds to get The Searcher and The Daydreamer up for sale on Amazon.com before Christmas. I am very close, but need to get the ISBN number for The Daydreamer. If you would like to buy an original pencil drawing, and help an artist reach his goals, please drop by, and please share the link to my store with your friends: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheSearchersWorld
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So here is the last pencil test version of this animation. I've roughed out all the frames I need to create a compelling and convincing animation. It will take me a couple weeks at least to produce the 34 final drawings of the main character, and then I still have to put a little action in the crowd in the background.
I hope you've enjoyed reading about and watching this process, and the end result when I get it posted. Have fun and God bless. -- Ryan
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As promised here is the second pass of the pitching sequence animation. With my schedule the way it is anymore it took me a few days.
When I was finally able to view what I have here I realized that his back leg lands right next to his front leg, and if he were really throwing a pitch the follow through would carry his back foot way out in front of his front foot. Also, I need to speed up the second half of his motion, to give his pitch some ZIP. SO... I'll need to re-animate the last few frames, and add some more. Then I can get back to the crowd in the background. Once I get that doped out I can start on the final drawings. Easy Peazy.
Here is a pencil test for a new project I'm working on. I threw the background in to make it a bit more interesting for you the viewer. I'll do finished drawings for the pitcher next, maybe add a little more exaggeration, and then I'll draw the crowd a couple times over, to give them a little movement, not much but just enough so that they aren't frozen. That crowd part will probably be take the longest.
I'm going to add a few in between frames to this, but I like the flow of his pitching action, so I don't think I'll make any big changes.
This is a small part of a bigger project I'm working on, a children's book and animation. With digital books/apps being what they are these days I'm excited about adding little clips of animation that the reader/viewer can activate within the story. I'm hoping it will add to the experience.
Speaking of children's books, remember you can still get "The Little Leaf" (written by Jairo Penaranda Illustrated by yours truly) at Amazon or Barnes and Noble. If you have an iPad you can get an interactive version of my book "The Searcher" (written and illustrated by yours truly) via iBooks. As always thank you for stopping by, and have a terrific day.
Hi everyone! Merry Christmas! I've been saving up for almost a year now, and last week for my birthday/early Christmas present I got the rest of the funds needed to get the Production Premium Adobe package I've been needing for a few years. Adobe has finally added inverse kinematics, and what they are calling 3D options, and I'm am very excited about the special effects possible in After Effects(like the snow you see in this animation). So I sat down over the weekend and put this little loop together. I only had a couple of hours to devote to it, but I learned SO MUCH. My hope is to continue to add to this piece, to make it more interesting. Here is the original Christmas card from last year, so you can see the starting point for this animation:
I just had to share the fun and excitement I feel. Enjoy! (P.S. I set the animation up to loop, so don't wait for it to end, cause it won't.
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I created this animation in the spring of this year. "An Animated Interview with Cyrus" was done as an audition for a job that I still might get. One of the hazards of working for a group of people is sometimes you have to be patient while they decide what to do.
I really cranked this one out in a short amount of time, 4 weeks. Sounds like a long time, but consider I'm one guy and had to do sound recording, character design, lip synch, character animation(all be it limited animation), backgrounds, editing, and... I guess that's all.
The sweet banjo riff was provided by my friend Alan Hayes. We recorded in his bathroom(no ticking clocks in that room). Thanks again Alan! Cyrus is voiced by Cyrus Patton a friend of mine from church. I asked him a series of questions and he was a real trooper. (I asked him after he got to see the finished piece and he said he thought it was cool to see himself as an alligator.) I edited out the replies I felt were best, and created my master audio track to animate to, and went to work.
I scanned my pencil drawings and colorized them in Photoshop, creating the finished pieces I needed to animate. I then animated in Photoshop, and exported Quicktime movies which I then pieced together in AVS Video Editor (Unfortunately Adobe video editing suite, and no, I'm not going to rent it for $50 a month via the cloud thank you, I don't rent my skill saw, or a hammer when I want to use those tools).
The entire project was inspired by Aardman Animation's "Creature Comforts", which I highly recommend you check out if you haven't seen it already. I was going for quaint, cute, adorable. I hope I achieved that, I hope you enjoy watching it.
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Meet Creepy Carrot. He was grown by a friend of mine, Luke. Luke plopped Creepy Carrot down on the table at the BBQ Friday night and issued a challenge to draw, draw like the wind. So several days later here is my rendition of Creepy Carrot, who is doing some sort of Rockettes like dance kick *shrug*... I dunno why. Press play on the video below to see the photo transform into the color sketch.
One of the things I learned while on the youth outreach trip to Friday Harbor last week was God = Buoyancy. And that the "u" comes BEFORE the "o" in buoyancy.
I've heard/read verses saying God is always with us before(Matthew 28:20; and Joshua 1:9), but the word picture that Steve Jensen painted really struck home. God isn't something I add on when things get tough, when I'm at the trough of a wave to keep me from being swamped and sinking. And my life is not one long crest because I'm a Christian. Nor is God simply there to get me from crest to crest. God like buoyancy is an integral aspect of my life. Always with me along the journey, always keeping me afloat.
As I listened to Steve's lesson on this topic I created the sketch that became the color illustration you see here. It would be fun to animate this into a looping cycle, but I'll never have that much spare time. I thought it would be a good way to start out a new series of sketch/posts though. When I'm listening to a sermon I sketch main points that stick in my head, it helps me retain the lesson past the Sunday I hear it. I plan to do a little clean up on the sketches and post them here. I hope you enjoy them.
Gospel & Grub from ryanloghry on Vimeo. I created this animated short to promote a dinner and gospel sing night at Hockinson Community Church, to raise money for one of the missionaries we (and Yacolt E-Free Church) support - Jill Wellman. Jill is taking a team on an outreach trip this summer (2013). The deadline was extremely short, I had a week start to finish. I'm not thrilled with the audio quality, but I did the best I could there with no sound studio or professional equipment. I used the ipad and Wave Pad software to capture the sound.
As for the animation itself I scanned my illustrations and animated in PhotoShop using layers and then exporting frames as QT movies. Then I edited each scene's qt movie together with the sound .wav file. After I knocked off all of the scenes I took each mixed (sound and video) qt movie and edited them together. Easy peasy. The voice over styling of Iris Wellman, myself, and Roy Loghry were used in the piece, and that is Alan Hayes on the banjo in the intro, and exit of the piece. A big thank you to them and my wife Angela for all their help.
The animation is choppy, more so than I usually do, but that is due to the time constraints. There is also very limited secondary motion (arms, legs and other appendages moving about to create the illusion of life), again due to a lack of time. Another big time saver was re-using a background image from a farm illustration used in my children's book The Searcher.
I hope you enjoy the piece, feel free to comment here and share the link. -- Ryan
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I created these sketches for a restaurant logo job that I didn't get. I don't do a lot of logos but this project was fun while it lasted. I hope you enjoy the sketches.
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I created this animation in the spring of 2012 for a youth group presentation at Hockinson Community Church. Had I more time I would give it all a pencil drawn look and feel (some parts of the backgrounds are airbrushed in PhotoShop to save time), and I would have more robust character animation. But with only one person and limited time on my hands this is what I could produce. Enjoy!
I am very pleased to announce that The Searcher, my first children's book is now available in e-book form. It is a multi-touch title, with very cool sound effects (some of them performed by yours truly!); loads of sketches from the illustrations in the book and ones that didn't make it into the book; and some animation as well. I hope this new format will reach many more readers, exposing them to my work and love of adventure! Click here, or on the image to go to the store and download the free sample. The Searcher is very affordable at $1.99. Please be sure to leave a review. Thank you, and ENJOY!!
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Howdy everyone. I hope your holidays were terrific. We were very busy, but we had a wonderful couple of months. Lots of old friends and family visits.
Before Thanksgiving I got a call from the art director at the Oregon Business Magazine asking me if I was interested in another job with them. Of course I said yes. This month's feature article is about the legislative issues that will be discussed at the capitol in Salem this year.
These are the roughs for the spot illustrations that I did for the September 2012 feature article in OregonBusiness Magazine(and here is a link to the article). The job took two weeks from start to finish. The first week I did all the roughs (2 for each concept, for a total of 10), and the second week I did the final versions and handled a few revisions. Below are the roughs and the final version of the main illustration:
Hi everyone! From mid August to a week or so before Christmas I was working on this book trailer/book project "Exploring China". The trailer is finished (with a huge praise and thank you to David Walters over at fogpuddle.com for helping me fix a big timing issue). The music was produced by Donevan Karr, GREAT JOB Donevan!
As always let me know what you think, don't be afraid to hit that comment button. Enjoy
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I was hired by the band Lucky Lincoln to create the art for their new cd (titled the same as the band name). The job was a dream to work on, lots of fun to draw, a creative concept from the clients to start with, and everyone was happy when the job was finished. Yay! Below is the illustration for the inside of the packaging.
I started studying Maya (3D animation software for those who don't know) last week. I have been working through many tutorial to get a grasp of how things work so I can use it to animate a book trailer for my latest book project (more on that later). Anywho, here is a link to a "Playblast" which is a shaded quick render of the animation I just finished. The first step of many. One of the hiccups, or mistakes is, the rotations of the planets around the Sun have ease as a default, causing the planets to slow down as they finish the animation, I didn't realize that 'til I rendered. (And yes I know there are more moons than I've got in my solar system. Expediency trumps accuracy in this case.) Another thing to know is no matter what I did to the render settings, the file was 100 meg. Giant file I know, sorry bout that. Let me know what you think. Don't be afraid to leave a comment.
I just purchased some video converting, and editing software and wanted to try out the mixing abilities. So I took this old animation and added my bicycle horn honk to it. It was very easy, only took me a few minutes. The software is AVS, it's a very affordable alternative to Adobe products, and it's easy to use.
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Here are a few of the bunnies I sketched for the nursery paintings. Most of these will not get used in the paintings. I really like the way they came out though, I think I'd like to do a bunny story or a series of bunny stories in the future. So they may get used for that. Anyway, I hope you enjoy these rough sketches.
Great work Ryan, I love your bridge monster, which is ofcourse fitting..
Great work Ryan, I think your bridge monster is great - nice reflection on the reality of the CRC situation, sadly..
Thanks Luke! Yeah, the bridge monster has been looming over this community for quite some time now huh?