pewpew///December 8, 2010

Been watching Walking Dead lately.  Haven't been doing much.  I am waiting out my days off doodling and moping around the place.  Here's a little something something.  Straight out of Walking Dead.  I liked the shot and thought it'd be nice to work on.

Trying out digital///Dec. 1, 2010

Just a little something something I did for about a half hour.  I got some new Photoshop brushes and tried a few out.  The watercolor ones are nice.

I have been trying out digital painting on and off.  it's a bit of a love/boring relationship.  I like Craig Mullins' work and thats why I try this now and then.  I am no Craig Mullins though, but practice never hurt anyone.

Wooden Habit///October 20, 2010

It's been a while.  Oh well.  Been out of work so I have been horsing around and doodling and such.  Among various activities I have grown fond of taking some of my desktop icons and changed them a bit.  It is a growing habit of mine.

Using the right one for the Steam application.

Currently using top left for iTunes.

.........hi.///July 12, 2010

Job:  Security detail.  The Rock.

Art world: not much happening.  maybe do some ink work for boredom.  website will come.

DON'T LOSE HOPE.  WE ALL NEED A BREAK SOMETIMES.

(sorry I haven't been posting.  I got lazy and haven't made any art whatsoever.  I'm enjoying unemployment while it has lasted.  Now I am about to be employed I can buy things, support myself and afford a website. I will also be a little more inspired to illustrate to kill time?  Sure.)

...And We're Back!///June 16, 2010

It's been a while fellas.  I have been neglecting blogger for too long!  Last post was so long ago that I feel guilty not updating with anything!


Anyways, I've graduated!  Real life has begun and it sort of blows.  I am jobless and living off of borrowed money from parents.  I am also in Brooklyn.  I have been job searching and let me tell you.  Nobody wants to hire a full time they all want part time and are relentless when it comes to people calling back.  I am not enjoying waiting on the one job I am stuck with because it's taking forever for them to call me for a follow up.  I should just call back anyway and ask them what the heck is going on.


I broke down an got an unlimited Metro card the other day.  Feels bad at first, but got better after doing a few trips.  I've visited a few places so far this summer.  Been to a Yankee game, Dead Horse Bay, Rockaway Beach and Staten Island Mall.  Very interesting places.


E3 happened and so many sweet games are coming up.  Totally excited for Portal 2, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and CoD: Black Ops.  I'm also excited to see the new Twisted Metal that was announced.  I so want to go to an E3 sometime in my life.  I highly doubt I will ever.


Since you can check my site, I'll post some sketches and miscellaneous things instead...

Society of Illustrators Sketch Night

Rockaway Beach

On our way to Dead Horse Bay

Yankees vs Orioles @ Yankee Stadium

The Last Of It All///May 8, 2010

It's late so I want to be brief.  I am almost completely done.  I have scanned and done my survey and everything else.  I am finishing my website up as we speak.  It looks good.  I am going to polish it up after I get graded on it.  Congrats to those who got into the Pratt Show.  My dear friends Christopher, Riva, Jackie and Emily got in.  Good job, you guys deserve it!

Jackie Tribou's Wall

Riva Powers' Wall

Annie Beth Ericsson's Wall

Emily Zier's Wall

Christopher Harrington's Wall

Dan Harlow's Wall

Alexander Doig's Wall

Luke Rotzler's Wall

       

My wall

***Edit

Here is the link for the site.  Also, I got an A in Evolution of Sex (HOLY SH*T I GOT AN A) and a B in Senior Project.

mysite.pratt.edu/~bmcneil/final

I have recently decided to do a series on video game controllers of the current generation.  They'll be much like the one I did a few weeks ago.  I also plan on doing silly things too.  I don't know.  I am completely free now.  College does not affect my sleep schedule anymore!

First Digital Survey for Pratt///May 3, 2010

WOOPS!  I skipped yesterday!  That was for good reason though.  Today marks the first time Pratt (or at least the COMD Department) uses digital projection for survey.  Standing by an unbiased opinion the digital format is good and bad.  While students do not have to worry about how they'll set up their wall they'll also save money by not spending it on stuff like background paper and matting materials.  This is also bad because survey is meant to display your work the way you want to (within your budget, of course).  So, juniors are the only ones doing digital this year as seniors and sophomores will still put up their work matted and pretty.

The pros of this are:

Cost efficiant
Time saving
You are not limited to a certain space
Saves professors time from traveling to each wall
clean looking

Here are the cons:

Each piece must be viewed one at a time
2 minute presentation and 3 minute critique
Due date for a cd of your work to be put onto the screen before survey
No wall, no decorating, no personality
You can't set up and go back to sleep, then come back later to clean up

In my honest opinion, I think it's good that Pratt is going digital, but I think it could be handled better.  After all, they are using the junior class as a test subject in an experiment.

As for the lack of a post yesterday.  I was having a bit of a rough day.  Actually, more like a rough couple of days.  Saturday the bank put a hold on my card for trying to buy a bed frame at IKEA.  Worst timing BoA!  Then I had to put stuff back, couldn't buy food and that was only Saturday.  Sunday I was trying to find scanners to use in the EDS with my friend, Chris, and they were all taken by people not even using them!  That and there were computers without scanners open.  The MCC was like that too, except one room.  they were reject scanners and didn't scan more than 8.5"x11".  Wasn't my weekend.

ALSO, today the gas company came and didn't do anything because I don't have access to the basement of my apartment.  The bar was closed and doesn't open until 6 everyday.  BAH!

Now I am printing on large scale for fun for survey.  Lucky me that I work with large scale printers!  Here are some finished stuff I didn't post yet...