MustacheMayhem

Hello all, Now that it's mid August, I figured I would do a quick July recap to help bring things up to speed with my journal entries. Better late than never, I guess. Anyhow, here's the quick and easy recap for July: Things I learned: During the month of July, I spent a great deal of time working with Copic Sketch Markers (take a look at my gallery and you'll see what I mean). As dumb as this may sound, the most valuable discovery I made was to utilize grays for shadows. Until I started using grays for shadows, I was using darker values of the same color (dark flesh tone, dark green, etc). Once I started using grays, I saw the quality of

A little over a year ago, I started posting on deviantArt to supplement my personal website. My immediate thoughts on deviantArt were pretty positive. I was really impressed by the community's willingness to provide feedback (both positive and constructively negative). As much as I loved deviantArt, I wasn't sure I was willing to abandon my beloved mustachemayhem.com that I'd spent countless hours designing, coding, and constantly tweaking. But the more and more time I spent here, I realized that deviantArt was a much better way to get my work out there. So today, I officially cancelled my godaddy hosting plan for mustachemayhem.com, making d

Hello everyone! I just wanted to post up a little something to let people know that I'll working on getting my deviant art page set up over the next few weeks. So check back later for more updates. Thanks for checking out my page. -JMV