E-book Help

Not all e-book formats are as straight forward as Kindle or iBooks. One of the more difficult ones to deal with is Adobe E-books (.ACSM) because it's a protected format. Purchasing the e-book and getting it on your PC is the easy part. It can get complex when you try to transfer the purchase to your e-reader or tablet. In an attempt to reduce customer service calls, a new, detailed help page was created with step-by-step instructions for all of the top devices. Check it out at... www.wiley.com/go/help/ebook

Ryu's Dragon Fury

Fall 1994 - This one just started out as a doodle and my hand just went into autopilot with the lines and shading. Ryu's nemesis, Akuma has the kanji for "heaven" on the back of his gi, so I felt Ryu should have the character for "dragon" on his.

Vega vs. Ryu

Fall 1994 - I referenced a photo of the Van Damme movie Street Fighter for this, but replaced the actors with the anime versions of Vega (Balrog) and Ryu. The Street Fighter  video games have always had good figure art. The characters are properly proportioned and aren't overly muscular like many other games.

Knightfall Batman

Winter 1994 - Knightfall was one of my favorite Batman stories of all time. The new costume introduced in that arc was a great way to practice figure drawing with a cape and some armor pieces. In this particular series, I was testing my color pencil technique on different paper textures. 

Gung Li Chuan BETA

Winter 1996 - This is an uncolored cel from the completed Gung Li Chuan animation featuring Alyssa Goldenblade. This character has been recently updated since I started playing Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning on PS3. I'll be trying to get back into figure drawing and hopefully can come up with some new pieces of Alyssa inspired by the recent game.

Fire and Gold BETA

Fall 1996 - These are a couple of sketches that eventually lead to the Fire and Gold Photoshop piece. The first was a back view of Shadow Dragon and then the front view that I eventually went with.

Double Rainbow

WIREs Water

The scope of WIREs Water is at the interfaces between five very different intellectual themes: the basic science of water, its physics and chemistry, flux, and things that it transfers and transforms; life in water, and the dependence of ecosystems and organisms on water to survive and to thrive; the engineering of water to furnish services and to protect society; the people who live with, experience and manage the water environment; and those interpretations that we, as a society, have brought to water through art, religion, history and which in turn shapes how we come to understand it. These interfaces are not simply designed to be ways of looking at water through what necessarily must be interdisciplinary perspectives. They are also designed to be outward facing in terms of how water can help to understand wider questions concerning our environment and human-environment interactions.


Coming in 2014:
http://wires.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-811578.html

Pfeiffer Custom Redesign

PfeifferCustom, a service selling custom training material went up about a year and a half ago. Just last Friday, it had its first redesign. Previously, the homepage was a splash advertisement. The new one is more functional and provides a lot of "help" instruction based on experience over the past year. With the growing list of franchises, a more complete top navigation was also created. Now, the user can get to any franchise from any page. The old site had "about" links in the topnav.

Changes include:
- 5 new franchises
- Homepage with instructional rollovers
- Step-by-step videos
- User-friendly top navigation
- Testimonial interviews

Dummies Author Widget

The Dummies author widget was recently redone and went up this Monday. The old version was a very static one where the book was overlaid on a GIF image. This worked up to a certain point because it required the book to be a certain height. The newer portable guides had a taller aspect ratio that would break the widget. So I based the new widget on the Wiley one that went up a couple of weeks ago. The widget now stretches with the height of the book cover, making it compatible with all Dummies guides.