Vote for me @ Don't Panic's SF4 contest!

Hey everybody! I entered a Street Fighter 4 contest over at Don't Panic and would love to have your vote! You can vote once a day, as many days as you want! All you hafta do is run through a quick registration page.

Vote for My Entry: Crimson Viper

Also, a few of my friends and coworkers are entering too. Feel free to give them your vote as well! :D

CubeeCraft: Blanka Cubee
Jamespeay5: Dhalsim
skech212: Akuma
E-Mann: GUILE

It's greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot!

Drew Struzan interview @ SidebarNation.com

Just wanted to post this great interview with famous illustrator Drew Struzan. He says a lot of things that, not only resonate with illustrators, but with just artists in general. It's one of the ones I listen to when I want to get grounded and inspired.

MP3 file found here

Sidebar Nation is a great podcast with great interviews with other artists ranging from James Jean to someone like Cree Summers. Give them a visit @ http://www.sidebarnation.com/

vintage.jtapp.com

I'd been meaning to do this for a while, and that is, look at the old website I had from when I was about 15-18 just to get an idea where I've been, how far I've come, and to just kind of humble myself.

What I ended up finding though, was that the ridiculous design elements I use sometimes in my artwork now, has been something I'd been doing since I was 14 to 17 and I never even realized it. I thought me being decorative with my artwork was something new, or something I learned in my last couple of years in college... But it wasn't!! Case in point.

http://vintage.jtapp.com/Artwork/colors/reamnexxcg.jpg
http://vintage.jtapp.com/Artwork/colors/ream.jpg
http://vintage.jtapp.com/Artwork/colors/nexxred.jpg
http://vintage.jtapp.com/Artwork/colors/cyberpunkscolor.jpg
http://vintage.jtapp.com/Artwork/colors/timcel.jpg

VS what I do now:

http://www.jtapp.com/illustration/almost.jpg
http://www.jtapp.com/illustration/nightwing.jpg
http://www.jtapp.com/illustration/abesapientall.jpg
http://www.jtapp.com/illustration/libra.jpg

It's good to know that somethings never change. :)

With horrible apologies to Melita Toniolo.

yeeaaahhh... nightwing... yay.

daily sketch - 27

Hey guys, so I've been doing this thing where I do a sketch a day now. This is tonights (jan 26, but i always seem to have a habbit of drawing them at 12am the next morning... does that mean i'm always one behind? who knows).

So far, so good. Even if I miss a day, it's already happen, I make sure to make it up by doing an extra the next day. Hopefully it never gets up to the point where I need to make up 200 in a day. ;)

JTAPP.COM 2009 IS UP!

http://www.jtapp.com

What's up everyone! When I said 2009 was the year of the hustle, I wasn't jokin around! The new version of http://www.jtapp.com is up, just in time for the Year of the Ox. Give it a look, lemme know what you think. If you love it, tell me, if you hate it, don't tell me... (I'm sensitive...) Either way, hope you enjoy it!

---Jimmy

P.S. Big thanks to Tishon for all the CSS help! quick plug-> http://www.tishon.com

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Unit-03

Unit-03
Cintiq, Alias Sketch Book Pro, Photoshop CS3

Soon to be updated with sketches, inks, and color stages!