Dennis Jones

HammerTime

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Dennis

…back from Texas, work deadlines looming, April 15 tax day looming, Indiana weather and coyotes looming… time to drop the hammer on a new week…

Buster’s Last Stand

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Dennis

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Yesterday around two in the afternoon I walked into the woods behind our house to grab a hose I had left there and when I picked it up the sound apparently disturbed a pack of coyotes who were having some sort of secret club meeting. They were no more that a few hundred feet from me and started howling, growling and making a general ruckus in my direction. I decided my best move was to show them the bottom of my feet as I ran like a madman back to the house waving a garden hose behind me. I guess I’m going to have to start packing heat when I wander into our back yard from now on… maybe a rocket launcher or some kind of small bazooka. Do they sell those at Walmart?

Winged Archer

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Dennis

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This looks like it could be trouble for that poor orc down the hill there… well, maybe not… perhaps they are both on the same team… they do both have pointy ears. Twin Sons Of Different Mothers? Weisberg and Fogelberg?

Sir Doggalott Barkswerthy

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Dennis

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I’ve had a nagging cough/cold thing going on for the last two weeks now. This was another wet weekend in Indiana, so I stayed inside and made a picture. I’m not sure what it’s all about, but I do think it means I might want to stop mainstreaming Nyquil for a day or two…

2010 Video SketchBook

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Dennis

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It’s 2011 and I’m just now getting my 2010 Video Sketchbook posted up onto the almighty YouTube. So much for the start getting things done in a prompt and timely manner New Year’s resolution. I wanted to use a Steven Delopoulos song for this so it became a restricted use video… (it cannot be played by a third party)… duh, that would be me… Mr. Third Party.

The only place you can actually watch this is over on the YouTube. Click here to go to YouTube…

iPad Brushes CapnAmerica

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Dennis

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I’m still making pictures on my iPad. Here’s one I did the other night…

Reading eBooks

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Dennis

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I’ve been reading e-books lately on my iPad and iPod Touch. I like reading on the iPod Touch best because it’s small, I can carry it in my pocket, and I can fire it up on a moments notice. It’s great to travel with… except when you’re waiting to take off in an airplane and they make the announcement for everyone to turn off all electronic devices at the beginning and end of each flight. Then all the reading comes to a screeching halt. Fortunately, I also carry a sketchbook for emergency situations such as this, and here are some sketches I did recently as I sat on an airplane waiting to be able to read again…

New Game In The Pipeline

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Dennis

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I did the artwork for a new boxed game back in December and I don’t think I can legally say anything about it until it’s ready for release, but it looks like a pretty fun product…

Missing Number

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Dennis

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I still have never seen the movie NINE, but I really liked the characters I saw in the trailer for it and I made this one from memory.

It’s Not Always the “Other Guy”

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Dennis

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Sometimes the “other guy” is you. Last Thursday my computer started acting a little wonky and then it stuck its tongue out at me and quit. To make a long story short, my computer fried and that pretty much put me out of business since I create my artwork on the computer. My biggest problem was that I had several jobs I was in the process of working on that were now locked inside a dead hard drive. Fortunately I had made a wise decision in 2009 and backed my computer up with Carbonite. I ran up to Best Buy and grabbed the biggest iMac they had sitting on the floor, came home, plugged it in, loaded Carbonite onto it and downloaded the files I needed to complete my jobs. I can’t recommend Carbonite highly enough. It’s almost idiot proof ’cause I was able to make it work and I ain’t exactly a rocket surgeon… I mean a brain scientist… whatever…

Sneezer Augustus

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Dennis

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It’s that magical time of year here in Northeastern Indiana. Snow and ice as I drive home last night, cars off in ditches, the road to my house closed with emergency vehicles, I’m sneezing and coughing the entire way and the radio tells me there’s another four inches of snow headed our way on Saturday. It’s looking like another fabulous winter wonderland in Hoosierville.