I was laid up pretty much all weekend, knocked down hard with a nasty chest cold that’s still clutching tightly to what remains of my meager health. So I didn’t get last week’s creative project posted, you know, last week. But here it is nonetheless.

And yes, it’s another website. But this one’s just for ME. The funny thing is, these are getting easier and easier to knock out these days, now that I know the underpinnings so well. This particular site is very similar to my mobile games site I posted a couple of weeks ago. In fact, it’s pretty much the same code - even hooks into the same login information. All I did was make a new database that’s prepped for a fancy to-do list instead of games, and changed a bit of the front-end look with some updated CSS. Pretty easy. Under three hours, from start to finish.

I was thinking that I might take this concept and apply it to other mobile apps where I have been looking for a nice solution, but haven’t been able to find one out there. I might end up with a pretty extensive suite of apps that I’ve built just for me, and that thought actually makes me smile. Especially if I can get them each up and running in just a couple of hours. That’s pretty impressive, if you ask me. AND I’M ASKING ME.

In any case, there’s week ten. I still have to deliver a previously missing week seven, but I’m hoping to get back to some drawing this week to wrap up my missing week, and also to deliver the current week eleven project. Beyond that, I’m continuing to work on my novel.

So, spring has sprung, weather’s getting warmer, daylight savings has hit, and we’re leaving a mild winter in the proverbial dust. How’s your 2012 been going so far?

I’m trying out vellum surface bristol paper. I usually use smooth. I really like it for sketching, but I’m not sure how the textured surface will fare with inking. I’ll try that out later.

For now, consider this my week nine creative project.

Okay, so I’ve got to get caught up. I was away on a business trip last week, all the way to beautiful Belgium. And I didn’t get a moment to myself the entire time, so I never got the opportunity to complete a creative project last week.

This week has been a bit of more of the same. Actually I’ve been spending most of my free time working on two different writing projects that I won’t be sharing here. One is the wedding ceremony of a beloved cousin of mine that I will be officiating next weekend. The other is the novel that my son and I are working on. But between those projects, I did get a chance to put the final touches on something that was mostly completed prior to this past week. It just needed a couple of tweaks in order to finalize it, and I’ve managed to do that this week, so I could use it for this week’s project.

Now, I promised myself I wouldn’t work on a website, but yeah, that’s what it is. It’s my new personal games site, one where I can manage my game collection: video, board, card, dice, etc. It’s designed as a mobile site (thus the ‘m’ sub-domain), so it’s best viewed on a phone. It’s really just the next evolution of the Nerdshelf site I had been working on once upon a time, but abandoned because I decided that I had no desire to manage a public site on an ongoing basis for strangers.

It is incredibly likely that this will be the only website I make for my creative projects this year, and only because it was already 95% complete prior to this week.

So, I need to find another project for last week to get caught back up, but this is my week eight project, with seven coming back sometime in the next week or so.

44 left to go!

You get a bunch of random doodles for this week’s creative project. That’s all I got.

Sorry, it was a busy week.

I’ve decided that this will be my week four creative project, instead of the previous drawing I was working on that I had posted earlier on the week. I just really like how the dragon turned out, even as my very first foray into using crosshatching for shading. The other one might end up completed as my week five project. Or it might not! Who knows.

In any case, I really like drawing. Four weeks down, 48 to go!

Here’s a work in progress shot of my week four creative project. Doctor Setebos and his granddaughter Haley. Coloring will come later this week. I really like how Haley turned out. And this is my ninth or tenth variation of Setebos, and I think he gets more and more interesting with every version I create.

Week three creative project has been completed. Another member of Team Bottlerocket, meet Flock. He can fly, obviously, and is assisted by a flock of robotic birds of various shapes and sizes, all manufactured by his brilliant teammate, Spin.

Flock - ink and colored pencils on bristol

Three weeks down, 49 to go. :)