<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:24:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>My Weekly Cycle</title><description>Doodles, comics, and animation.</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>26</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-7476645021892977184</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-07T17:14:23.529-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>illustrator</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>flash</category><title>Buzz &amp; Neil's Voyage Dans La Lune</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/moon_men-713492.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/moon_men-713297.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I'm still futzing around with this, but I thought I'd toss it up as-is anyway. Also figured I'd break up the trail of "solo guy standing there," posts with some film-school-grad nerdery.</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2008/08/buz-neil.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-1002053382693324381</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T20:13:21.968-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>monster</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>animation</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>flash</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>cycle</category><title>Think He's Had Enough?</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/MonsterFight.swf"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/MonsterFight-798068.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Click the image if you think he should have some more.&lt;br /&gt;(requires &lt;a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/"&gt;flash&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2008/07/think-hes-had-enough.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-6371188080142649727</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T19:52:15.312-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>pirate</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>flash</category><title>Ahoy</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/pirate-702896.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/pirate-702892.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I've been replaying Monkey Island 2 lately.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2008/06/ahoy.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-7948938744484793858</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T19:52:51.361-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>flash</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>portrait</category><title>Homage</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Gary-779029.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Gary-779025.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;For me, Gary Mello is the example of what both a father and husband should strive to be. I can think of no better person to be the subject of my "Homage" image for Illustration Friday. Unfortunately, he's in the hospital right now fighting some pretty advanced kidney cancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2008/04/homage.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-3275937101363872664</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T20:01:38.254-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>photoshop</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>painterly</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>SF</category><title>Fall In The City</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/wind-783966.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/wind-783948.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This pretty much sums up how I'm feeling right now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2007/11/fall-in-city.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-1819986133867080817</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T19:54:29.448-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>photoshop</category><title>Cup holders come standard</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Carrots-710826.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Carrots-710822.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;With his brain replaced by the bunnies foul machinery, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Warren Burrows&lt;/span&gt; was never able to fully appreciate the irony of his name.&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2007/03/cup-holders-come-standard.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-116149558907945060</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T19:55:38.829-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>animation</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>flash</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>undead</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>cycle</category><title>Hopping Ghost</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/GhostLoop.html"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/HoppingGhost-784608.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Here's a quick doodle of Chinese Hopping Ghost. Click on the image above to see him do his thang.</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2006/10/hopping-ghost.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-116063760275260298</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T19:56:15.542-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>illustrator</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>wallpaper</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>photoshop</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>demon</category><title>A Clear Sign of Trouble</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/ElDiablo-795844.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/ElDiablo-793078.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ahh, yet another colored frame from my &lt;a href="http://www.dannyburbol.com/forums/post.php?cat=1&amp;amp;fid=14&amp;amp;pid=10&amp;amp;order=ff&amp;amp;page=1"&gt;24hr comic&lt;/a&gt; from this weekend.</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2006/10/clear-sign-of-trouble.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-116046475131411521</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 06:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T19:57:02.574-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>illustrator</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>comic</category><title>24hr Comic Day</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Lotto-791916.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Lotto-789601.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; So 24hr comic day was Saturday and, despite swearing I'd never do it again after &lt;a href="http://www.stupendium.com/junk/Rouse24hr05.pdf"&gt;last year&lt;/a&gt;, I gave it another shot. I'm glad I reconsidered because I had an awesome time making some marathon comics with Danny, Paul, and our lovely hostesses Tiffany and Chandra. If you're at all interested in reading the spoils of our labor I'd redirect you over to &lt;a href="http://www.dannyburbol.com/forums/post.php?cat=1&amp;amp;fid=14&amp;amp;pid=10&amp;amp;order=ff&amp;amp;page=1"&gt;Danny's Forum&lt;/a&gt; where he generoulsy posted photo documentation and scans of all three of our books.</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2006/10/24hr-comic-day.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-116002360538719995</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 04:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T19:57:45.453-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>illustrator</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>photoshop</category><title>Shhhhhhh</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Quiet-757689.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Quiet-753226.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2006/10/shhhhhhh.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-115890897424666049</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T19:58:17.618-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>interactive</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>photoshop</category><title>The Change</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=15501756&amp;amp;postID=115890897424666049#" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Change','','http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Wolf-781393.jpg',1)"&gt;&lt;img name="Change" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Trucker-761340.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For this title to make any sense, I'd suggest mousing over the above image.</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2006/09/change.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-115821339333189770</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 05:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T19:59:09.314-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>photoshop</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>animals</category><title>And on this farm he had some lunch.</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Farm-700556.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Farm-798607.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2006/09/and-on-this-farm-he-had-some-lunch.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-115593765737041463</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T19:59:42.357-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>illustrator</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>photoshop</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>portrait</category><title>Match</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Match-721594.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Match-707727.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;center&gt;This is the only photograph to have survived the fire.&lt;/center&gt;</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2006/08/match.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-115523275103983679</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T20:00:29.598-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>photoshop</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>painterly</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>movie</category><title>Capture</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/capture-785872.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/capture-776498.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I've been pretty busy lately, so I've missed the past couple Illustration Fridays. I'm not really comfortable doing images this sinister, but that's what happens when doing a Silence of The Lambs tribute.</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2006/08/capture.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-115492054811989324</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2006 03:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T20:01:08.741-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>illustrator</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>SF</category><title>San Francisco Rags</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/bus-757755.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/bus-755490.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I used to see a newspaper on a bus seat and think, "Hey free paper!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't think that anymore.</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2006/08/san-francisco-rags.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-115324317222140192</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T20:02:13.466-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>photoshop</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>painterly</category><title>IF: Sacrifice</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Sacrifice-749575.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Sacrifice-735625.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2006/07/if-sacrifice.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-115264857623692413</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T20:02:55.545-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>interactive</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>animation</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>flash</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>SF</category><title>You Really Move Me</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/WalkingBG.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/WalkingBG-767685.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is my pixel-art drawing of this week's Illustration Friday topic, "Skyline." It was also about time for me to put up another animation cycle on this thing, so I also did a sprite animation of myself walking. To see these two items combined, just click on the image below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="256" height="192"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="somefilename.swf"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.stupendium.com/MeWalking.swf" alt="This Image Requires Flash Player" width="256" height="192"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(The above animation requires &lt;a href="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;Flash 8&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're asking yourself what the point of this "game" is, there isn't one. I was just messing around with animating myself in sprites. Enjoy!</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2006/07/you-really-move-me.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-115212938432434211</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T20:03:30.850-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>illustrator</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>photoshop</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>animals</category><title>Knocking One Back</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/sticky-706387.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/sticky-798839.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; So this is my "Sticky" picture for &lt;a href="http://www.illustrationfriday.com/"&gt;Illustration Friday&lt;/a&gt;, but the more I look at it the more I want to redo the coloring on it. I've got plenty of other stuff I need to tend to before that happens, so hopefully some of these &lt;a href="http://www.sketchcrawl.com/blog/"&gt;skecthcrawl&lt;/a&gt; drawings from this weekend will redeem me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v250/stardork/sketches/Chinatown.jpg"&gt;Portsmouth Square&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v250/stardork/sketches/ChinatownPeople.jpg"&gt;People in Chinatown &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v250/stardork/sketches/UnionSquare.jpg"&gt;Art Vendor&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2006/07/knocking-one-back.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-115148216677153583</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 07:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T20:05:04.457-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>illustrator</category><title>Rain</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Rain-701941.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Rain-799129.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;When the deluge hit San Francisco back in March, taking mass transit reminded me of all those days at school hanging on a wet corner waiting for the bus. At least the school bus actually showed up on time. Grrr.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh yeah, in case you couldn't tell, I colored this sucker in Illustrator just to mix things up a bit. Maybe next post I'll draw something that doesn't involve a dude with a circle head. Given that the next &lt;a href="http://www.sketchcrawl.com/blog/"&gt;sketchcrawl&lt;/a&gt; is this weekend, that is highly likely.</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2006/06/rain.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-115134900510768133</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T20:05:51.215-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>illustrator</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>photoshop</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>movie</category><title>Omega Red Dawn</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/OmegaRedDawn-714604.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/OmegaRedDawn-706493.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;So I initially drew this for the Wolverine Jam over on Drawingboard.org, but thought I'd toss it up here as well. If you haven't seen the movie  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Red Dawn&lt;/span&gt; this probably seems like it's coming right out of left field. Actually, even if you have seen the movie this is still kinda random.</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2006/06/omega-red-dawn.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-115087882312850454</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T20:08:09.532-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>illustrator</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>cowboy</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>animation</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>photoshop</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>flash</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>cycle</category><title>Dance!</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Dance.swf" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/dance-773393.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;center&gt;(Click above image to see it animated.)&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I started drawing this as a "Dance" image for &lt;a href="http://www.illustrationfriday.com/"&gt;Illustration Friday&lt;/a&gt; and decided it would make a good &lt;a href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Dance.swf" target="_blank"&gt;animation cycle&lt;/a&gt;. Pay no mind to the gentleman's infinite supply of munitions. Perhaps he has magic guns, magic guns of infinite shooty-ness. Alright, I'm gonna go grab me one of the chocolate covered macaroons at the bagel shop on the corner. They're like giant chewy fresh baked Samoa Girl Scout Cookies. Hot damn, I'd dance like that kid just to get one, but instead I think I will just trade some legal tender for it. Catch you folks later.</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2006/06/dance.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-115039371478391395</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T20:09:07.358-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>photoshop</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>animals</category><title>Do You Know Where You Are?</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Tamarin-727628.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Tamarin-721894.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello blog-a-majig. Today I pay tribute to the jungle critter with the most rockin-est facial hair, the Emperor Tamarin. And by "pay tribute to" I mean "crap out a hasty picture of." I'd write something witty here but my tummy desires foodstuffs so I'm gonna go get one of those "screw it, put everything in a damn bowl" meals at KFC. Hooray for &lt;a href="http://www.illustrationfriday.com/"&gt;Illustration Friday &lt;/a&gt;and the "Jungle" theme.</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2006/06/do-you-know-where-you-are.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-114972721702741111</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T20:09:56.616-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>photoshop</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>painterly</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>TV</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>portrait</category><title>We want illustration...</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/The_Prisoner-776858.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/The_Prisoner-769306.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So this is my &lt;a href="http://www.illustrationfriday.com/"&gt;Illustration Friday&lt;/a&gt; "Portrait" of Patrick McGoohan as &lt;i&gt;The Prisoner&lt;/i&gt;. My lack of being born prevented me from catching this show when it originally aired, but thanks to the magic of DVD (and the San Francisco Public Library) I've been able to see it. My favorite thing about the character might be that his face seems permanently stuck giving a disapproving people's eyebrow, an expression I tend to make quite frequently myself. Next on my list of old TV shows to catch is &lt;a href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Rockford-761671.jpg"&gt;The Rockford Files&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be seeing you.</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2006/06/we-want-illustration.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-114953411673481650</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T20:10:54.312-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>animation</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>flash</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>portrait</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>cycle</category><title>Puting the "cycle" back in My Weekly Cycle</title><description>&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="somefilename.swf"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Jer.swf" alt="This Image Requires Flash Player" width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It used to be I'd only use the tablet for inking and coloring, but now I find myself doing more straight up sketching and *gasp* animating with it. This weekend I was sketching with said tablet and listening to one of my friend Jeremy's &lt;a href="http://www.stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_files/Cool_All_The_Time_Clip.mp3" target="_blank"&gt;songs&lt;/a&gt;. The product of this activity is the quick and dirty cycle of him playing a tambourine featured above.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not sure why I'm playing a Christmas song in June, but I think it has something to do with the adorable banter with his fiancée at the beginning. Can I refer to something as "adorable" or does that have some negative effect on my gonads? Oh well, it can't be any worse for my person than the copious amounts of caffeine I pump through my body. Mmmm sweet sweet caffeine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Oh yeah, you'll need &lt;a href="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;Flash&lt;/a&gt; to see the animation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2006/06/puting-cycle-back-in-my-weekly-cycle.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15501756.post-114926506850680682</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T20:11:30.730-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>samurai</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>photoshop</category><title>He's attacking my ability to sleep.</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Samurai-776237.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://stupendium.com/blog/uploaded_images/Samurai-772270.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This blog looks naked, it needs to be made un-naked by having more gunk'l'dunk added. I've got the Atom feed up with the sweet powder blue feed button down at the bottom, but other than that the frill-age is still minimal. Anyway, to keep some posting momentum up I'm tossing up this samurai picture I drew last night when I should have been sleeping. That's what I get for eating chocolate espresso cookies before bed I guess.</description><link>http://stupendium.com/blog/2006/06/hes-attacking-my-ability-to-sleep.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Rouse)</author></item></channel></rss>