For the ecological book I’ve been illustrating these past weeks… there’s been a lot pressure to get it right, with the amount of botanical geeks surrounding it. The book should be out by the end of the month.

Today I have been working on two ghost projects, why ghost projects? well I was a hired and paid t do them. I delivered the first set of mockups and I never heard from them again. no feedback, no comments, no fired letter, no ‘green light’ or ‘go ahead’ to continue development. I’ve prepared what I believe are solid proposals. I’ve covered all my bases… Then the waiting begins.

A day goes by without a call back. Then another. And another. I’m beginning to wonder if the prospect received my email email. Maybe she went with someone else? Should I call? Should I wait another day or two? Will following up make her think I am desperate for work? But what if I don’t call? Will she think I’m not interested? what if after a few weeks Its been to late to call and I worry because she may pop up and ask about progress… and I have nothing else but the proposals. I never got a follow up on that… but maybe she expected me to make the call? Days like to day I decide to work a bit on them just to ease my worrying a bit.

We got signed up to do a ecological book that will feature a children story and a short who’s who of  the plants surrounding the University. Here’s a random flower I draw from scratch to show the author the style in which it will be done.

So for the past few week I got hired to work on a social initiative that involves creating healthy spaces for kids and teens in the far western suburbs of Bogotá.  A pretty depressed area (though not far from where we are planning to move) I didn’t get many guidelines besides having to spend a day there volunteering. So I approached the logo in 3 decisively different ways.

Although I have done the layout for this poetry magazine for other 5 issues this is the first time its actually features my own art. The magazine is pretty flat and minimalist so really anything else would just seem out of place. Realized I’m a bit rusty with illustrator; but honestly, I’m a Photoshop guy all the way.

Its been a while I know, but I don’t know if it is vanity, need for validation, stubbornness, or the obligation to justify a 1000 $USD purchase. Lazy editing, I just wanted to have some activity on the channel really.  I say the word "I" more times than any grownup should.

I didn’t knew the song… not being a Greyson Chance fan (at all) so  had to do it like 6 times.

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Flying by the seat of our pants by scomber

Here’s the non altered pic… for those who like authenticity. The idea was to get the picture in low light with as little noise as possible. Decided mas ISO for this was 1600.

Back in 2005 I had a bit of a romantic interest for Bill Kaulitz… Ok it wasn’t a “little interest”, it was downright bordering obsession (Actually it was me who created the Band’s wiki page swear to god!). I with some German friends decided to create an English site devoted to the band, since there was none, and German can be tough to learn. So we created the fist English spoken fan site for the band located at www.Tokyo-Hotel.tk | tokio-hotel.co.uk.tt and LustInTokio.com The site grew to become fairly popular with over 3000 active forum subscribers from all over Europe and north America.

However by 2007 the band had changed so much (bill got weird) and interest frankly fainted, so the site closed to never be seen again…  until now O.O  I keep a backup of the site here on SilverHalogenide; The design is a pastiche of the 2005 original website design for www.tokiohotel.de.

If by any chance someone knew the site (click the Lust in Tokyo logo)… or wants to see a massive gallery of Bill Kaulitz dating 2005-2007 Feel free to check it for nostalgia purposes at http://limaerence.silverhalogenide.com/ 

For reference, the actual font used for the Tokio Hotel logo is a modified version of Kab

I tried some alternative designs for the menus, but it would take me forever to code. So I decided to stick to a more regular grid approach and use lubith to code it. Check it out. Free wallpapers following the link.