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Re-working Cashew Character
I’m quite new to the world of illustration and am improving all the time but one things I’ve always been timid with is lighting and shading. It takes me much longer than it should to build up tonal depth because I’m always afraid to add the dark shadows and bright highlights… and my illustrations suffer because of it. I’m slowly overcoming it, however. This is a quick example that shows how I saved a muddy and flat illustration by refining my lighting.
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New Site Design!
The newly designed JaredMacPherson.com is finally launched! After many months of good intentions but bad follow-through, I decided it was time to finish the new website design I had been tinkering around with. And I finally have a blog incorporated into the site! No more need for separate URLs.
I have to do a major shout out to Alex Carabi for doing an amazing job coding the new layout. His quick work, clean code, and ridiculous patience was much more than I could have hoped for. Without his talents, I never would have had this sucker up and running. Thanks Alex!
And, as always, I have to thank Jenn Duong for answering my countless questions about web stuff and not making me feel dumb.
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